[N_Fiddledog]

This idea Republicans are the money party and all corporate money and influence goes to Republican campaigns is Horse Hooey.

Twitter is run by Democratic donors and activists

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After Twitter was caught last month “shadow-banning” Republicans, while giving Democrats unrestricted voice, the social-media giant insisted it has no political agenda. But records of its political contributions show board members, top executives and major shareholders have all given overwhelmingly to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, while snubbing Republicans and Donald Trump.

Federal records reveal 80 percent of Twitter’s corporate PAC contributions in the 2018 election cycle have gone to Democratic candidates, none of whom are moderates. Liberal Democrats also got top dollar in the 2016 race.

The lobbying records I reviewed, moreover, show Twitter has sought to influence Congress and federal agencies on behalf of Democratic causes and against President Trump’s policies.

Vice News last month broke the story that Twitter limited the visibility of Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and several Republicans leading Hill investigations into the Obama administration’s efforts to spy on the Trump campaign, including Reps. Devin Nunes (Calif.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Mark Meadows (NC) and John Ratcliffe (Texas).

San Francisco-based Twitter blamed it on a search-engine filter deployed against “bad” actors, such as racists, trolls and users inciting violence, which it maintains accidentally ensnared Republicans, while curiously failing to affect any Democrats.

“We enforce our rules without political bias,” Twitter Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde said in a statement.

But Republicans aren’t buying it. They blame the unequal treatment on political bias, and they argue the timing is suspicious. They say Republican voices are being suppressed on the 355 million-user platform just months before the highly contentious November congressional elections.

They certainly have a point about bias. Senior Twitter executives heavily favor Democrats over Republicans in their political giving.

Federal Election Commission records show that Gadde, for starters, has given exclusively to Democratic candidates, including the maximum donations allowed to both Clinton’s and Obama’s campaigns. In 2016, she gave $2,700 to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris of California, who won her US Senate bid.

Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey also donates only to Democrats. And in 2017, he and executive chairman Omid Kordestani together donated $530,000 to the ACLU to fight Trump’s executive order imposing a temporary travel ban on immigrants from high-risk Muslim countries, which Dorsey called “upsetting” but which the Supreme Court recently ruled constitutional. All told, Twitter gave $1.6 million to the anti-Trump ban effort.

Kordestani is a big Democrat donor, contributing the maximums to Clinton and Obama, as well as to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In 2011, moreover, the Tehran-born exec gave $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund and another $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee.

Also snubbing Republicans is Twitter Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, who has given exclusively to Democrats, including several thousands of dollars to Obama and former presidential candidate John Kerry. Segal has also contributed to DNC coffers.

Then there’s former Twitter CEO, current board director and major stakeholder Evan Williams. He’s shelled out more than $600,000 for the Democratic Party and Democrats running for federal office, FEC records show. Meantime, he has stiffed Republicans and the GOP.

What’s more, Evans in the past two presidential races pumped an additional $750,000 into Priorities USA Action — the largest Democratic Party super PAC — which contributes to leftist groups to help them turn out the vote for Democrats. Priorities USA is heavily funded by billionaire Trump-hater George Soros.

This worries Republicans who see Twitter’s growing political clout and ability to sway elections
As one of Twitter’s largest investors, Williams has a lot of clout on the board. SEC records show that among Twitter officers and directors, Williams holds the largest stake — almost 4 percent — in the publicly traded company.

After the 2016 race, Evans said he was “sorry” Twitter may have helped Trump get elected and regretted that the free speech platform Twitter facilitated rewarded such “extremes.” No doubt adding to his remorse was the $323,000 he spent on the Hillary Victory Fund.

Last month, Twitter purged more than 380,000 of Trump’s followers, claiming they were fake accounts, and it’s now assisting special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump for alleged obstruction of justice based in part on his tweets.

Twitter did not respond to questions about its one-sided pattern of political donations.

While the company says it’s not engaged in political censorship, it’s clearly run by Democratic donors and activists. And though it says its algorithms for policing “healthy conversations” aren’t politically motivated, it’s clear that their effect is the censorship of Republicans and conservatives. And the Silicon Valley giant’s software engineers earlier this year admitted on hidden camera to anti-Trump, anti-GOP bias involving Twitters’s shadow-banning policies, according to Project Veritas.

This worries Republicans who see Twitter’s growing political clout and ability to sway elections ahead of the high-stakes congressional midterms.

GOP incumbents up for reelection say Twitter’s giving unfair advantage to Democrats by suppressing their voices. Last week, Gaetz reportedly filed an FEC complaint against Twitter, alleging it’s illegally making an unreported “corporate donation” to his Democratic opponents by making him less visible to voters. He called on the FEC to fine the company.

Some see a wider conspiracy by liberal-controlled Silicon Valley to rig elections for Democrats.

“Remember what Google did to the Republicans in California a week before our primary. They said our philosophy was Nazism. Remember what Twitter continues to do to conservatives, a shadow ban,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. “This has got to stop especially before we go into this campaign.”

https://nypost.com/2018/08/04/how-twitt ... ic-agenda/

[Thanos]

[raydan]

I know you can't see me, but if you could, you'd see that I'm crying for Republicans.

[Thanos]

raydan raydan:

I know you can't see me, but if you could, you'd see that I'm crying for Republicans.

[Tricks]

Pretty much all of Silicon Valley is left leaning.

[BeaverFever]

Wel then Trump should get off Twitter right away then....right?

[Thanos]

Jack Dorsey's personal politics never intertwined with his business practices. There was just too much new traffic that was being created and too much money to be made by allowing Twitter to get over-run with alt-Reich assholes, right-wing conspiracy lunatics, and Russian bot accounts. He wasn't going to do anything to stop this, just like Zuckerberg at Facebook didn't, because it wasn't in the company's best financial interest to do so. The occasional banning of goofs like Milo, Spencer, or Andrew Anglin means absolutely nothing. The pro-Trump crazies and Russian intelligence operatives that were smart enough not to directly threaten anyone via those platforms are still there and are in pretty much zero danger of every being kicked off of them.

They're just like the philanthropists of old. Building a concert hall or funding a hospital or sponsoring a new faculty at university with their own personal fortunes might have been the right thing to do. It was also damn good cover to help gloss over the deplorable, brutal, and inhumane way they ran the businesses that created those fortunes. Money from rich people for good causes usually turns out to be just more blood money somewhere up the line.

[CharlesAnthony]

Not surprising. Their star candidate still struggles with stairs.

[BRAH]

Facebook, Apple remove most of U.S. conspiracy theorist's content

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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Facebook announced on Monday that it had removed four pages belonging to U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for "repeatedly posting content over the past several days" that breaks its community standards.

The company said it removed the pages "for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies."

"Facebook bans Infowars. Permanently. Infowars was widely credited with playing a key role in getting Trump elected. This is a co-ordinated move ahead of the mid-terms to help Democrats. This is political censorship.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/apple-removes-most-u-conspiracy-theorists-podcasts-itunes-070519614--finance.html
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Facebook and Apple remove pages and podcasts from Alex Jones for hate speech violations

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/apple-pulls-alex-jones-infowars-podcasts-for-hate-speech.html
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ARE TECH GIANTS WORKING TOGETHER TO CENSOR CONSERVATIVES? — Apple and Facebook BAN Infowars on Same Day

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/are-tech-giants-working-together-to-ban-conservatives-apple-and-facebook-ban-infowars-on-same-day/

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I don't agree with Alex Jones but I agree with the right to disagree with Alex Jones.

The Hypocritical Tolerant Left preaches the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech when it benefits their political agendas.

[BartSimpson]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Wel then Trump should get off Twitter right away then....right?

I think he's hoping they'll ban him so he can justify going after the fuckers.

In the meantime I have never had an account on Shitter and never will.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Wel then Trump should get off Twitter right away then....right?

I think he's hoping they'll ban him so he can justify going after the fuckers.

In the meantime I have never had an account on Shitter and never will.

Go after them for what? They're a private entity, they can ban whomever they wish for any reason they want.

[BartSimpson]

Tricks Tricks:

Go after them for what? They're a private entity, they can ban whomever they wish for any reason they want.

And the Feds can regulate them in response.

[BRAH]

The Twitter trial you never heard about: Toronto man found guilty of harassing Michelle Rempel

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A Toronto man was quietly convicted last October of harassing and threatening the Conservative MP, while a similar case that resulted last week in acquittal was making international headlines.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/the-twitter-trial-you-never-heard-about-toronto-man-found-guilty-of-harassing-michelle-rempel
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Twitter turns a blind-eye to threats made against Conservatives and only takes action when it's against the Left.

[raydan]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Tricks Tricks:

Go after them for what? They're a private entity, they can ban whomever they wish for any reason they want.

And the Feds can regulate them in response.

...and while they're at it, they can regulate those damn cake makers too.

[xerxes]

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The Hypocritical Tolerant Left preaches the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech when it benefits their political agendas.

Jones isn't getting banned for his insane beliefs. He's getting banned because of insane tirades like this:

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On Monday, Alex Jones accused special counsel Robert Mueller of covering up pedophilia—then warned that he was going to “get it” politically, according to Media Matters. Jones pantomimed shooting a revolver while describing “manning up” for a duel with Mueller “in the square, politically, at high noon.” “I look at that guy, and he’s a sack of crap,” he said on The Alex Jones Show. “That’s a demon I will take down, or I’ll die trying… [Mueller is] going to get it, or I’m going to die trying, bitch. Get ready. We’re going to bang heads. We’re going to bang heads.” Jones also accused Mueller of covering up for Jeffrey Epstein. “Mueller covered up for a decade for [Jeffrey] Epstein kidnapping kids, flying them on sex planes, some kids as young as seven years old reportedly, with big perverts raping them to frame people,” Jones said. “Mueller is a monster, man. God, imagine—he’s even above the pedophiles, though. The word is he doesn't have sex with kids, he just controls it all.”