Banning

Banning in Social Media is the equivalent of book burning. It needs to be transparent and fair: the opposite of now. Banning in Social Media is the equivalent of book burning. Define the terms clearly, show your work/documentation, apply fairly. Be the opposite of now. Double standards, opaque, dishonest: Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others that want to arbiters of fairness only demonstrating hypocrisy and cowardice. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2019-01-29

🗒️ Note:
There are different things in "Banning": Blocking is just censoring a single post Shadow Banning/Demonetizing is cutting down the exposure of a post or person Banning a Person/Account can be termporary or permanent Banning a post or topic or image can be entirely or partially But they are all restrictions on free speech and sharing information.

Weighted scale

They start by making rules that promotion sides agenda. Bring Pro-Gun, Pro-Life, or proud of America is already one strike against you. They will ban you for promoting guns too vigorously, but being anti-gun? There's almost no standard depraved enough for stealing someone else's liberty or property. The same with abortions, or saying, "Return Mexico to Greatness" is all good, but saying "Make America Great Again" borders on hate speech.

Examples:

• 2019.05.31 Bans Erick Erickson - If you are a biased partisan that hates conservatives, then everything they say looks like hate speech.
• 2018.03.05 Twitter defends Maxine: Queen of the Twits - Twitter blocked a guy for insulting Maxine Waters, which is fine. However, they rarely block far worse insults against conservatives. So while I don't mind them playing list-mom, I do care about the blatant hypocrisy while doing it.
• 2018.04.19 blocked a Girl with Down Syndrome for being ‘Pro-Life’ - It seems like a down-girl deserves a voice in begging not to have her kind exterminated for the convenience of their parents, or the agendas of hyper liberals, don't you think? Twitter doesn't.
• 2018.04.09 Threatening conservatives is OK though - Christopher Michael McGowan, was arrested for repeatedly threatening Congressional Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). Saying the last thing he will see, “will be my patriot ass behind a gun you should have long ago have prevented me owning, pulling a trigger to your head.” Despite that being clearly a personal threat, and multiple people complaining, Twitter hasn't done anything to this guys account.

Like they refused to smack Rosie O'donnel's bad behavior with the same enthusiasm they do conservatives. At least until they were shamed into behaving consistently (days later).

They destroyed Julian Assange's Wikileaks account, but then restored it, and refused to answer comments as to why. (And breaking followers links and posts in the process).

And they purged Richard Spencer account, not really for violation of terms, but because they really didn't like who he is, or what he stands for.

They purged Milo Yiannopoulos account not for anything he did, but because of what they claim some of his followers did without any direct calls for attack by Mil (for conservatives it's not only what the person said, but what their followers say that will get them banned). While the victim (Leslia Jones) behaved worse, and got no punishment. Others:

• Laura Loomer - De-verified
• British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson - De-verified
• Baked Alaska - blocked

Demoting

           Main article: Demoting

Demoting is the the opposite of promoting. In Social Media, it's a technique to censor / ban or reduce exposure. Sometimes it's silent (Shadow Banning), sometimes it's public. But it's a way to suppress and attack, usually for telling uncomfortable truths.

Shadow Banning

           Main article: Shadow Banning

Some chickenshit institutions (like Twitter) don't have the balls to come out and explain their policies outright. (Probably because they don't want to be held to objective standards). So they "Shadow Ban" folks -- which is basically silently blocking customers (preventing others from seeing them), and not living up to their expected terms of use.

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