In previous posts, I addressed how Big Tech (Apple, Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Facebook (Meta), and Microsoft) are arbitrarily censoring the free speech of those they disagree with, often conservatives and Bible-believing Christians.
Big Tech Embraces Cancel Culture
Big Tech & Cancel Culture 2
In this post, I highlight some recent attempts at Big Tech censorship and point out their hypocrisy.
Missouri U.S. Senate Candidate Suspended from Twitter After Anti-Transgender Post
Twitter suspended U.S. Rep Vicky Hartzler, and senate candidate from Missouri, because she tweeted that, as a conservative Christian, she believes God created humans as male and female. For Twitter, and all Big Tech, amounts to hate speech.
Hartzler’s account was suspended over a tweet in which she said, “women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.”
Hartzler, who is a conservative Christian, launched a statewide television ad earlier this month that LGBTQ groups called transphobic. It targeted a collegiate swimmer and used both her name and photo before she transitioned. Hartzler has tweeted the image, which implies that the woman transitioned in order to gain a competitive advantage, several times.
“I will continue champion marriage as the union of one man and one woman, so every child has the opportunity to be loved and known by a mom and a dad,” Hartzler said.
I am a Missourian and Vicky. You have my vote and the vote of every member of my family for standing up for what is right! Thank you!
Leftists Demand Big Tech Preemptively Censor Trump’s Truth Social
Former President Donald Trump has launched Truth Social, a free speech platform that the left already wants to cancel.
Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social wants to make itself cancel-proof against leftist demands that Big Tech preemptively deplatform it. So far, the increasingly popular free speech platform has already survived attacks from the corporate media hellbent on smearing anything associated with Trump. Now, leftists are wielding Jan. 6 as an excuse to demand Big Tech companies such as Apple thwart Truth Social before it even becomes fully operational at the end of the month. In “Big Tech Could Save Us From ‘Truth Social,” author Samuel O’Brient, who has a history of demanding censorship because he believes “Limiting Free Speech is Essential to Democracy,” argues that Big Tech companies should preemptively nuke the anti-political censorship platform simply because it is associated with the former president.
“The campaign by the left and the mainstream media to censor and suppress other viewpoints is a shocking threat to democracy,” Devin Nunes, CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in charge of launching Truth Social, told The Federalist. “The fact that there’s even a need and a demand for Truth Social – a social media platform that won’t censor content based on viewpoints – is unsettling in itself. Once you begin censoring, the suppressions develop a momentum of their own. This naturally leads to demands for preemptive censorship, which until recently was a concept you only found in dystopian science fiction novels.”
Next, check out the following post for a lesson in top level hypocrisy from Big Tech.
Twitter Banned Trump for Decrying Violence, Lets Putin Keep His Account
This belongs in the “you can’t make this stuff up” file.
Can you believe this? Trump kicked off Twitter, Vicki Hartzler booted by the platform because she expressed her beliefs as a Christian, yet Communist dictator and war criminal Vlad Putin is still tweeting away!
How the heck is this right?
Invading another nation, bombing hospitals, and killing civilians is not enough to get you kicked off of Twitter, but calling for peace and order will get you banned. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Twitter account, which has 1.5 million followers, remained active as of Friday, as Putin’s forces continue their invasion of Ukraine and attacks on the Ukrainian people. Ukrainian authorities have reported more than 2,000 civilian deaths, with attacks on residential areas and maternity hospitals. Meanwhile, Putin used his Twitter account to spread propaganda about the conflict, calling the invasion a “special military operation to protect Donbass.”
The Big Tech website’s rules claim to “prohibit the glorification of violence,” but Twitter is less interested in going after foreign aggressors than policing speech at home. Twitter locked and then permanently nuked former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account after he posted a video on Jan. 6, 2021, imploring rioters at the Capitol to “go home now” and that “we have to have peace.” Before that, a study showed Facebook and Twitter had already censored Trump 65 times.
What Can I Say?
The arrogance of Big Tech amazes me. I can only respond with a verse from the Bible.
18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18 ESV)
Here are a couple of alternatives to big tech social media:
GETTR
A brand-new social media platform founded on the principles of free speech, independent thought and rejecting political censorship and “cancel culture.”
MeWe
An alternative to Facebook without the censorship.
