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There will be a cost to silencing the right

2020-07-06T13:38:32.284Z


Gilead ZwickWhat do Gadi Taub, Shimon Ricklin, Bezalel Smutrich, Kathy Hopkins and Donald Trump have in common? Everyone is a conservative, and they have all been censored recently by Facebook or Twitter - the social giant networks that benefit about 2 billion users. "The silencing of the right has probably increased in the country as well," Taub wrote after his "incitement" post was removed, while Ricklin wa...


What do Gadi Taub, Shimon Ricklin, Bezalel Smutrich, Kathy Hopkins and Donald Trump have in common? Everyone is a conservative, and they have all been censored recently by Facebook or Twitter - the social giant networks that benefit about 2 billion users. "The silencing of the right has probably increased in the country as well," Taub wrote after his "incitement" post was removed, while Ricklin was blocked for a month from Facebook and the page of his program on Channel 20 was permanently deleted only because he uploaded a video with Benzi Gopstein. Right-wingers have been suspended for daring to write the phrase "no Palestinian people".

Hunting for right-wingers has not been stopped, as mentioned, within Israel's borders: the Twitter account with more than a million Hopkins followers, one of the most prominent and courageous voices in conservative Britain - has been removed. Some of President Trump's tweets have recently been "flagged" by Twitter as untrustworthy or "haters of encouragement." Shamefully, Twitter authorizes The Washington Post

And CNN - which has been pumping the lie of the "collusion" that was not between Trump and Russia for three years - to serve as "fact-checkers" for the president. That is, rather than being held accountable for deceiving their readers and viewers, traditional media outlets retain the hegemony over information thanks to social networks that were supposed to challenge the old media order, and are now betraying their destiny to be used here by the silenced crowd. 

The shutdown of fairies does not occur in a vacuum, but as a result of an economic boycott of Facebook by companies seeking to fight "hate discourse" - that is, in conservative positions. Needless to say, true haters of discourse, including Ayatollah Khamenei or anti-Semitic preacher Luis Farhan, are allowed to freely distribute calls for the destruction of Israel. In the country, an alleged incitement by musician Ephraim Shamir against the Prime Minister, in which he called "eradicate the psychopath" - was not removed.

Political enforcement is welcomed when they find out who is behind the "anti-hate" campaigns. For example, the man who initiated the Facebook boycott, Jim Steer, is a quintessential left man close to the Clinton family. Emmy Palmore, former chief executive of the Department of Justice and currently a Facebook content board member with authority to disqualify content, previously claimed that "dislike is also a form of racism" and criticized opponents of infiltrators in southern Tel Aviv: "I don't live with blonde neighbors only With green eyes. " On Twitter, the "integrity officer" who believes in "disinformation war," Joel Ruth, previously compared Trump's senior adviser to Nazi propaganda minister, writing that "there are Nazis in the White House." Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt assisted Hillary Clinton in the latest 

Trump campaign. : Confiscating Facebook from Ricklin, Sickle and Lt. Gen., and the U.S. Department of Justice's initiative to expose social networks to libel lawsuits is a good start, as well as promoting alternatives such as the "Perler" social network that states it will not censor content. It is good if Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reminded of his vision at the beginning - "Make the world a more open place."

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Source: israelhayom

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