Friday Night Massacre: Twitter purges Trump, Parler faces bans from Apple and Google

[mystery-ak]

Friday Night Massacre: Twitter purges Trump, Parler faces bans from Apple and Google

Major developments occur after chaotic week including riot at U.S. Capitol.


Updated: January 8, 2021 - 11:27pm

   
Tech companies on Friday night made significant moves against conservative presences on their respective servers, with Twitter purging major high-profile conservative accounts including President Donald Trump, who received a permanent ban..

Apple, meanwhile, threatened to blacklist Parler in its app store over the company's content moderation policies, while Google outright banned the app from its own software-sharing system.

Twitter on Friday officially banned Trump from its platform, citing his two recent tweets stating his intent to skip Joe Biden's inauguration and offering praise to his his millions of supporters, which the company said constituted violations of its "glorification of violence" policy.

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• ur determination," the company wrote, "is that the two Tweets ... are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so."

Twitter on Friday also banned the accounts of Trump attorney Sidney Powell and former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, arguing that the two had spread false information related to the QAnon conspiracy theory and had thus violated the company's content rules.

The alternative social media app Parler, meanwhile — which has billed itself as a free-speech alternative to Twitter's content moderation policies and which has attracted a growing number of conservative users in recent months — faced major pressure from tech giants Apple and Google to rewrite its content rules.

Apple informed Parler that it would ban it from its App Store software sharing system if Parler did not reform its moderation policies to more stringently police reportedly violent speech.

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[bilo]

The more they attempt to censor free speech the greater the desire to associate with and talk freely with like minded people grows.

The left may be successful in the short run, but they will destroy the country in the process.

[jmyrlefuller]

Couple this with the continued gathering restrictions, and you can see where this is headed.

[bilo]

Couple this with the continued gathering restrictions, and you can see where this is headed.

Tyranny

[jmyrlefuller]

Tyranny

To be more specific, groupthink and censorship. Only thoughts that toe The Company Line^TM will be allowed to be disseminated, and the Great We shall close all loopholes.

[mountaineer]

The more they attempt to censor free speech the greater the desire to associate with and talk freely with like minded people grows.

The left may be successful in the short run, but they will destroy the country in the process.

The left overplayed their hand, I suspect. I hope the conservative reaction is loud and effective.

[libertybele]

The more they attempt to censor free speech the greater the desire to associate with and talk freely with like minded people grows.

The left may be successful in the short run, but they will destroy the country in the process.

That's is their ultimate goal.  The globalist/leftists want to destroy this Republic.  They want to install socialism/communism and their own government. 

I believe that Trump knew and saw that this was coming ... he tried to stop it.  They have stopped him.

[bilo]

To be more specific, groupthink and censorship. Only thoughts that toe The Company Line^TM will be allowed to be disseminated, and the Great We shall close all loopholes.

So I've got Parler on my desktop and just tried to put it on my phone. The response was "paler app is not available on google play".

How long till GOP Briefing Room is shut down?

[bilo]

The left overplayed their hand, I suspect. I hope the conservative reaction is loud and effective.

The DC establishment has nothing but disgust for the middle America working class. We need a group of conservative Gov.'s to get together and start working out how we go our separate ways before people organize and begin fighting back.

[bilo]

That's is their ultimate goal.  The globalist/leftists want to destroy this Republic.  They want to install socialism/communism and their own government. 

I believe that Trump knew and saw that this was coming ... he tried to stop it.  They have stopped him.

I think you're right.

The Pub establishment seems more than happy to "clutch their pearls" and abandon Trump. Dumb move on their part, once govt crushes us they are next. The tech companies are systematically trying to control all communications once that's done they figure they can isolate and destroy any dissent. All this is happening a lot faster than I ever thought it would.

The only reasonable response I see is to find a way to separate. 

[christian]

Communists go after free speech and then heavy censorship.  They move on to disarm the populace.  Then removing the food supply.  Then savage merciless purges, cannibalism and starvation ensues.  Even their stooges die along with those the stooges betrayed.  Remember all too willing fools, your time is coming too!  You will not be untouched.

[catfish1957]

I had a little fun though.  Posting tweets urging others to short TWTR stock.  Talk about watching some tweets disappear quickly..