Can social media censor content? Google does it. So does FB and Twitter
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 21, 2025 14:48
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Social media is exempt from libel and hate speech laws because they disavow any responsibility for their content.
However, once social media starts "curating" what appears on their platforms, they start sliding over into the realm of "publisher", which has a whole boatload of responsibilities and liabilities attached.
This is in reference to "shadow-banning" or "demonetizing" content, or (in the case of Google/Youtube) skewing search results so thoroughly that it's impossible to find what you're looking for, even if you're very very specific with your search terms.
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This is just the right wing lying about Google in an attempt to discredit them. They did and continue to do the same thing with the main stream media. Only those on the right buy into this, just as they have with the propaganda war against all responsible media.
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THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
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Google Was "Working To Get Hillary Clinton Elected" With "Silent Donation" According To Leaked Internal Email
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-10/google-was-working-get-hilla
ry-clinton-elected-silent-donation-according-leaked
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Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans
?Two days after Twitter told Congress that they aren't politically biased when censoring content, several prominent conservatives discovered that the social media giant automatically includes them in a site-wide "Quality Filter Discrimination" shadowban which prevents anyone not already following them from viewing their posts.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Making Sense Of YouTube's Great Demonetization Controversy Of 2016
https://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2016/09/02/making-sense-o
f-youtubes-great-demonetization-controversy-of-2016/#27fc48746ca9
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Alex Jones and Info Wars has essentially been banished from the internet. Twitter was one of the last holdouts and they finally caved to the media pressure, and shortly after iTunes removed the Info Wars app.
Large and extremely popular YouTube presence H3H3 Productions recently had problems on the platform for their opinions on the issue. Joe Rogan, who is an extremely unbiased youtuber that is fairly left leaning on social issues is a friend of Alex's, although he's the first to say how crazy he can be. He's recently had a podcast where he talked about how he can no longer have Alex on as a guest. There's about a 17 minute clip you can find on Youtube about this that he cut out of the podcast to be viewed separately.
While technically not an issue of censorship because these bans were not Government censorship, it does put into question who will be next. In the current political climate there is no doubt that it will be Conservative voices that are silenced, there is no saying that this will be the way it goes forever. As we've seen the pendulum tends to always fall the other way and it may be the other side that feels these bans in the future.
The demonetization was a lower level form of censorship that should not be ignored, but regardless of your opinion of him or whatever way you lean politically, the banning of Alex Jones from the entirety of the internet is a very scary precedent that was just made.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Google Was "Working To Get Hillary Clinton Elected" With "Silent Donation" According To Leaked Internal Email
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-10/google-was-working-get-hilla
ry-clinton-elected-silent-donation-according-leaked
Zerohedge, Brietbart, and Tucker Carlson - super swell sources you have their. Might as well be Eric Trump.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans
?Two days after Twitter told Congress that they aren't politically biased when censoring content, several prominent conservatives discovered that the social media giant automatically includes them in a site-wide "Quality Filter Discrimination" shadowban which prevents anyone not already following them from viewing their posts.
Cites or it didn't happen. And even with cites I doubt it happened the way you suggest.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Alex Jones and Info Wars has essentially been banished from the internet. Twitter was one of the last holdouts and they finally caved to the media pressure, and shortly after iTunes removed the Info Wars app.
Large and extremely popular YouTube presence H3H3 Productions recently had problems on the platform for their opinions on the issue. Joe Rogan, who is an extremely unbiased youtuber that is fairly left leaning on social issues is a friend of Alex's, although he's the first to say how crazy he can be. He's recently had a podcast where he talked about how he can no longer have Alex on as a guest. There's about a 17 minute clip you can find on Youtube about this that he cut out of the podcast to be viewed separately.
While technically not an issue of censorship because these bans were not Government censorship, it does put into question who will be next. In the current political climate there is no doubt that it will be Conservative voices that are silenced, there is no saying that this will be the way it goes forever. As we've seen the pendulum tends to always fall the other way and it may be the other side that feels these bans in the future.
The demonetization was a lower level form of censorship that should not be ignored, but regardless of your opinion of him or whatever way you lean politically, the banning of Alex Jones from the entirety of the internet is a very scary precedent that was just made.
I remember when people thought AOL was the Internet. That if you weren't *there* you weren't part of it. No, being excluded from YouTube is not being excluded from the Internet. He still has a web page right? He's on the Internet. All that is is the whine of millionaires losing their honey pot.
And if any Democrat ever said the sh*t Alex Jones said I would loose just as little sleep as having them "banned" from YouTube as Jones. He's free to start his own MeTube.
" In the current political climate there is no doubt that it will be Conservative voices that are silenced..."
Correction: " In the current political climate there is no doubt that it will be Conservative voices that are making false claims about being silenced or silenced for no reason, because they want to appease Trump and he hates the lot of them." For some reason Trump's base hates those rich, college educated, digital hipsters.
The Internet is still young and it's learning what does and doesn't work. Initially they threw their platforms wide open, and as is typical of anything that includes so much freedom and money and humans, it was abused. If Alex Jones was allowed to continue people would have every right to complain that Youtube was making money from someone who said Sandy Hook was faked. So what would you do if you were them?
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