NY Post deserves immense praise here: for running the initial story, for not folding and dropping it after the unprecedented amounts of pushback, and for continuing to attack twitter's censorship even 2 weeks later.
In answer to Ted Cruz's question of "who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report, and what the American people are allowed to hear?": A small clique of Silicon Valley executives and financiers.
I thought you lot objected to unaccountable aristocracies enough to turn us, the Brits, out some time ago. Perhaps the preference was merely for a more home-grown unaccountable aristocracy...
Nah, it was more of a "sneaky bastard" aristocracy. Those of us in the conservative side of the tech sector have been pointing at Twitter, Facebook, and Google as being a problem for the last decade, if not longer, but nobody would listen and take us seriously. Everyone was too addicted to the money they were making off of those three entities, so they just let them slide, gaining more and more power and influence, until the dam broke on something like this. Every last one of them should have had their safe haven rights revoked a long time ago, because they have long since moved into the realm of editorializing, and both Facebook and Google should have been broken up from their de facto monopoly positions.
Now we're at the point where it would literally take an act of congress to do so.
Good they make this into the story, the media and tech companies should not get away with their behavior with no consequences.
NY Post deserves immense praise here: for running the initial story, for not folding and dropping it after the unprecedented amounts of pushback, and for continuing to attack twitter's censorship even 2 weeks later.
In answer to Ted Cruz's question of "who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report, and what the American people are allowed to hear?": A small clique of Silicon Valley executives and financiers.
I thought you lot objected to unaccountable aristocracies enough to turn us, the Brits, out some time ago. Perhaps the preference was merely for a more home-grown unaccountable aristocracy...
Nah, it was more of a "sneaky bastard" aristocracy. Those of us in the conservative side of the tech sector have been pointing at Twitter, Facebook, and Google as being a problem for the last decade, if not longer, but nobody would listen and take us seriously. Everyone was too addicted to the money they were making off of those three entities, so they just let them slide, gaining more and more power and influence, until the dam broke on something like this. Every last one of them should have had their safe haven rights revoked a long time ago, because they have long since moved into the realm of editorializing, and both Facebook and Google should have been broken up from their de facto monopoly positions.
Now we're at the point where it would literally take an act of congress to do so.
Well, monopolies are historically quite, quite profitable. Not for their customers, of course, but who cares about them?