John R. Houk
© April 18, 2018
If you are a stalwart American Conservative you are fully
aware the largest social media platforms have been operating a stealth war that
favors Leftists (
aka Liberal, Progressive but maybe better described as Moonbat,
Snowflake, etc.). With this understanding of Social Media, I received an
email from
ACT for America notifying readers
that
PayPal is now not allowing donations via its online
platform evidently citing the erroneous “hate-speech” label on lists from organizations
such as the
Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC). The
SPLC is as close to a Leftist Communist organization as it
can be without admitting so.
Left-Wing organizations such as the SPLC are heavily
invested in
fundamentally transforming American away from
American-Christian values into a brainwashed society that believes and acts as
the State would have society (
i.e. YOU) believe.
I am pretty vocal as a mouthpiece to preserve the fundamental
Rights that have inalienably been endowed by the Creator of all that exists and
intended to be protected by the Founding Fathers’ founding documents that define
citizens of the USA as Americans.
I am vocal but small potatoes as far as the Leftist
multi-conglomerate Social Platforms are concerned. Take heed, once the Leftist
controlled Social Media giants deceptively limit and remove the dissemination
of Conservative thought, the small potato bloggers will soon follow. Start
massively complaining to these giants, because advertisers are interested in
targeting potential Conservative customers as much as Liberal customers.
Barring that, pray some Conservative geeks develop a social platform that is competitive
and simple to use as the geeks that lean Left.
Find ways to donate to Conservative organizations being stifled
by Facebook, Google, Youtube, Twitter and PayPal. In the meantime, support the
small potato Conservatives who would be the next target if not already so. On a
personal level, I’ve been in Facebook jail thrice, Google+ jail once, I’ve had
a couple Youtube videos removed with a warning about my channel’s existence,
yet I have escaped Twitter and Paypal’s notice to date.
ACT’s email emphasizes how Left Oriented Social Media giants
are targeting Conservative and Counterjihad organization using hate lists as
those developed by the SPLC as an excuse to target Conservatives and
Counterjihadists. Because of what PayPal has done to ACT for America, here is
an embedded link to support ACT’s work in educating Americans about threats to
their lives and communities:
DONATE to ACT for America. This donation link by-passes
PayPal.
Below is the ACT email. The email included the entire text
of a WND.com post about this war on Conservatives. However, I am cross
posting from WND rather than the email.
JRH 4/18/18
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Sent 4/18/2018 6:09 AM
Dear John,
A new study published from our friends at the Media Research
Center confirms what we already knew. Conservative organizations are facing an
existential threat from tech companies that are founded and run by leftists.
You see, companies like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google are more than
just tech companies, they also control how and when we get our news.
Further, tech companies partner with leftists including the
Southern Poverty Law Center to attack organizations, like ACT for America, who
have been wrongly labeled a hate group. Cited in this article below is a
specific example of how leftists used the SPLC to pressure Paypal into dropping
us as a client. Because of these scare tactics, we can no longer accept
donations through Paypal - a leftist run tech company.
The left's mission is to silence any ideas differing from
their own and with control of the most influential tech companies in the world
- they are off to a great start.
For Freedom,
ACT for America
+++++++++++++++++++
'If the right is silenced, billions of people will be
cut off'
April 16, 2018
A new study from the Media Research Center says
conservatives, and their ideas, right now are facing an existential threat from
tech companies founded and run by liberals who have decided that only their
voice should be heard on disputed issues.
“The conservative movement is facing a threat to its very
existence – a new, insidious form of media censorship,” the MRC report,
available starting Monday, said.
“Media bias has always been an enemy of the right. Liberal
journalists relied on talking points and talking heads that agreed with for
their stories. Conservatives were typically ignored or even targeted by
old-school media monopolies but while conservatives were excluded, their
organizations were still allowed to function and even flourish. The internet
gave the right new tools to go around traditional media – websites, email,
video and social media. Conservatives’ power online continued to grow as groups
expanded their base of supporters and were even able to flourish online.
“Now, all of that is under threat,” the report states.
How?
It’s not complicated. If the liberals who run the big
companies, like Facebook, Google, Youtube and Twitter, all suppress conservative
speech, and the report concludes they are, no messages that contradict leftist
propaganda will be heard.
“Like it or not, social media is the communication form of
the future – not just in the U.S., but worldwide. Just Facebook and Twitter
combined reach 1.8 billion people. More than two-thirds of all Americans (68
percent) use Facebook. YouTube is pushing out TV as the most popular place to
watch video. Google is the No. 1 search engine in both the U.S. And the world,”
the study finds.
And those organizations are not about transparency and
fairness.
“War is being declared on the conservative movement in this
space and conservatives are losing – badly. If the right is silenced, billions
of people will be cut off from conservative ideas and conservative media.
“It’s the new battleground of media bias. But it’s worse.
That bias is not a war of ideas. It’s a war against ideas. It’s a clear effort
to censor the conservative worldview from the public conversation,” the study
said.
Among the key findings in the study is that Twitter leads in
censorship – and Project Veritas even caught staffers boasting on hidden camera
they had been censoring conservatives through a technique known as shadow
banning.
There, users think their content is being seen widely, while
Twitter deliberately suppresses it.
On Facebook, its trending feed has been caught hiding
conservative topics.
A 2016 Gizmodo story warned of the bias, with testimonies
from former employees they’d been instructed to “hide conservative content.”
“On the other hand,” the study said. “the term ‘black lives
matter’ had also been placed into the trending section even though it was not
actually trending.”
Google’s search functions, the study said, simply help
Democrats.
“Google and Youtube’s corporate chairman Eric Schmidt is
known to have helped Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign,” the study said.
“The company’s search engine had deployed a similar bias in favor of
Democrats.”
And YouTube simply shuts down conservatives’ videos. That
deprives them of monetization first, but also the publicity that successful
videos generate.
“YouTube moderators must take their cues from the rest of
Google – from shutting down entire conservative channels ‘by mistake’ to
removing videos that promote right-wing political views. YouTube’s special
creators for change section is devoted to people using their ‘voices for social
change’ and even highlights the work of a 9/11 truther.”
Further, tech companies partner with leftists including the
Southern Poverty Law Center, and more, to try to further their campaigns.
It cites the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League.
“Both claim to combat ‘hate,’ but treat standard
conservative beliefs in faith and family as examples of that hatred. George
Soros-funded Propublica is using information from both radical leftist
organizations to attack conservative groups such as Jihad Watch and ACT for
America, bullying Paypal and other services to shut down their funding
sources.”
Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Councli” [sic] has 12 liberals
as members. Only one conservative.
And the “fact-checkers” that the companies, whose empire encompasses
$3 trillion, use? All “anti-conservative,” the report says.
A strong commitment to transparency and fairness with a
dedication to free speech likely is the only solution, the study notes.
The companies “must stop pretending” that disagreeing is the
equivalent of “hate speech,” and the bias must be removed.
That means groups that routinely label core conservative
values as “hate” need to be addressed.
“Tech companies can’t expect conservatives to trust a system
that is so blatantly one-sided,” it said.
Included in the study was a quote from Niall Ferguson,
Hoover Institute senior fellow: “Nothing has changed politics not only in the
U.S., but worldwide more than the advent of companies like Facebook. Forty-five
percent of Americans now get news from Facebook …. Mark Zuckerberg, who runs
Facebook, has the power to tweak the algorithm that determines what gets into
your news feed and my news feed. And that is an awesome power … because let’s
face it Mark Zuckerberg’s politics are liberal politics. He has no desire to
see 2016 happen again.”
The study, by Ashley Rae Goldenberg and Dan Gainor,
documents, “The problem starts deep inside the liberal corporate cultures of
the companies. Eric Schmidt recently stepped down as head of both Google and
Youtube. While still in that role, he aided the Hillary Clinton campaign. …
Zuckerberg has been a strong proponent of the Dream Act and LGBT issues.”
Then their employees reflect those biases.
Facebook workers donated 99 times more to Hillary Clinton
than President Trump. For Google, it was 63 times.
A survey showed 89 percent of very conservative, 74 percent
of conservative and 69 percent of libertarian workers are “hesitant of being
themselves while at work for fear they might lose their jobs.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, the study notes, warned just weeks ago that
if the companies are a neutral public forum, they cannot allow censorship. If
they are not a neutral public forum, “the entire predicate for immunity under
CDA (Community Decency A[c]t) is claiming to be a neutral public forum, so you
can’t have it both ways.’
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Social Media Exclusion of
Conservative Thought
John R. Houk
© April 18, 2018
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