Tag: Social Media

The Problem With Parler: People Prefer Shitting in Clean Toilets

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Problem With Parler: People Prefer Shitting in Clean Toilets

Like Twitter, we were forced to moderate discussion in order to protect the quality of our operation against the encroaching kudzu, and were met with screams of “FREE SPEECH NAZI CENSORSHIP”, because screaming ridiculous bullshit was always this element’s go-to move.

Like Twitter, we reluctantly began kicking off the worst of them, and, like Parler, alternative operations cropped up to serve as safe havens for those cruelly persecuted by our FREE SPEECH NAZI CENSORSHIP.

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The Far Right Establishes Autonomous Zone Safe Space App Parler

[2018] War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”

When most people think of the term “fake news,” they think of the headlines in supermarket tabloids about alien invasions and two-headed grandmothers giving birth to quintuplets. But when the New York Times and the leading US intelligence agencies use the term, they mean something entirely different: reporting that cuts across the efforts of the state to promote war and political viewpoints that challenge the establishment.

Twitter suspends over 20,000 China-linked accounts that were spreading false news

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The accounts also tweeted about two other topics: Taiwan and Guo Wengui, an exiled billionaire waging a campaign from New York against China’s president and party leader Xi Jinping and his administration. Most had little to no followers and failed to get much attention. The accounts were suspended under Twitter’s manipulation policies, which ban artificial amplification and suppression of information.

Twitter suspends over 20,000 China-linked accounts that were spreading false news

They’ll be censoring antiwar activists, eventually, if they aren’t already!