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https://www.thenewneo.com/2022/12/09/the-twitter-files-leftism-requires-censorship/
Excerpt: The Twitter files: leftism requires censorship
Posted on December 9, 2022
We on the right knew for years that it was happening. Twitter was not just blocking conservatives outright when they hadn’t actually violated terms of service, but it was also shadow-banning them and subjecting them to a host of other secret machinations – such as a “trends blacklist,” or a “search blacklist” – that inhibited their traffic and stifled their message.
It was widespread and utterly purposeful, and because Twitter has a huge audience and enormous political influence, it mattered. Of course it mattered, and the high-ups at Twitter denied it was happening for the most part.
Yesterday Bari Weiss wrote a series of revealing tweets about the entire process. You can read them more easily than on Twitter by going here, and you can read a discussion of them here.
Bloggers like me have a few thousand readers a day. Even a huge blog like Instapundit probably only reaches something like 220 thousand a day. The New York Times supposedly has close to 11 million subscribers, which is a lot – but nothing like Twitter’s reach, which has 206 million daily active users.
And Twitter administrators have not been shy about shaping the perceptions of those users to fit a leftist perspective, doing it in secret, and justifying it to themselves. Talk about elitist! And the only qualifications they have to do this is that they are employed by Twitter, and they can, and nobody stopped them. They are the arbiters of True and False, Love and Hate, Acceptable and Unacceptable, because it’s a private platform.
Yes, they collaborated with government, but it was voluntary collaboration – always to help the left, because the left is Virtuous – and also because the government might regulate them more if they didn’t. But plenty of their banning and the shaping and secret manipulating was done on their own – for our own good, of course.
As you said, it is a matter of numbers, but we need to raise these issues. Two years ago, I was pretty much all alone in commenting on the mainstream pashtuns. People believed the narrative about C-19 and vax. Now it's hard to find positive commentary, so many people are angry about these and so many other issues.
I looked at the Rasmussen poll on these injections. Somewhat half of the people still think it is effective to some extent. But that number is obviously shrinking. Look at how many took the first dose, and how many took the boosters. Something is changing. Is that enough to stop the disaster?
We really need media platforms and new regulations. These giants have too much power to suppress information