Do a little research and you'll find that, in 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) made a big fuss about a website that lists - and calls for shutting down - several liberal individuals and private entities that "pose a considerable threat to the citizens of America":
Here is a screenshot of the site:
Fast forward to the present, where apparently the SPLC not only has its own list of people to silence, but has worked with Twitter to drive these individuals from the internet.
One source is calling the great take-down the "Twitter Holocaust"; in my opinion, the drama best resembles a South Park episode where the boys grab axes and take Cartman to the woods to 'off' him...by destroying his electronics and capacity to go online:
But what has happened to Twitter is a serious matter.
Controlling nearly all mainstream television, magazine and newspaper sources and rarely permitting the public to comment on its articles, the lib-left has enjoyed the ability to saturate us with its message in an echo chamber.
By contrast, Twitter had the potential to create an open forum. Sure mainstream television, magazine and newspaper sources had Twitter accounts too, but on Twitter, so did everyone else. The masses therefore had the power to be heard on Twitter just like all the mainstream sources, and on the same level. In addition, the masses could present their views directly on and through Twitter, without having their quotes taken out of context by the mainstream media. Recall that, in the days of cable, guests would also be scrutinized, shouted over, cut off or silenced through "technical difficulty" or "bad signal" interruptions.
Twitter was a place where none of these strategies could be weaponized. In fact, one would generally even have the ability to tweet right back to the source, for all to see, what had been misreported or misquoted. The score was even, one to one. All that may be about to change if the lib-left has taken over Twitter and begun to eliminate open discourse there.
Perhaps the lib-left fear they have lost the ability to control of the masses. Increasingly fewer people follow newspapers or magazines and, thanks to the internet, the public is increasingly skeptical of the news on the television.
The insistence to take us right back to the days of message saturation and the echo chamber should be a clear red flag to the thinking public; after all, if that side has a valid argument, why is it so afraid of people competing with its message and argument on the same common plane? Why did the mainstream media eliminate a comment section to its articles? And why all of a sudden is there this crusade against "fake news"propagated by the mainstream media, so as to invalidate everything but its own product?
Here is a screenshot of the site:
Fast forward to the present, where apparently the SPLC not only has its own list of people to silence, but has worked with Twitter to drive these individuals from the internet.
One source is calling the great take-down the "Twitter Holocaust"; in my opinion, the drama best resembles a South Park episode where the boys grab axes and take Cartman to the woods to 'off' him...by destroying his electronics and capacity to go online:
But what has happened to Twitter is a serious matter.
Controlling nearly all mainstream television, magazine and newspaper sources and rarely permitting the public to comment on its articles, the lib-left has enjoyed the ability to saturate us with its message in an echo chamber.
By contrast, Twitter had the potential to create an open forum. Sure mainstream television, magazine and newspaper sources had Twitter accounts too, but on Twitter, so did everyone else. The masses therefore had the power to be heard on Twitter just like all the mainstream sources, and on the same level. In addition, the masses could present their views directly on and through Twitter, without having their quotes taken out of context by the mainstream media. Recall that, in the days of cable, guests would also be scrutinized, shouted over, cut off or silenced through "technical difficulty" or "bad signal" interruptions.
Twitter was a place where none of these strategies could be weaponized. In fact, one would generally even have the ability to tweet right back to the source, for all to see, what had been misreported or misquoted. The score was even, one to one. All that may be about to change if the lib-left has taken over Twitter and begun to eliminate open discourse there.
Perhaps the lib-left fear they have lost the ability to control of the masses. Increasingly fewer people follow newspapers or magazines and, thanks to the internet, the public is increasingly skeptical of the news on the television.
The insistence to take us right back to the days of message saturation and the echo chamber should be a clear red flag to the thinking public; after all, if that side has a valid argument, why is it so afraid of people competing with its message and argument on the same common plane? Why did the mainstream media eliminate a comment section to its articles? And why all of a sudden is there this crusade against "fake news"propagated by the mainstream media, so as to invalidate everything but its own product?
