Social Media Silences Conservatives?

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened that Republicans will try to close down social media platforms a day after Twitter, for the first time, added a fact check to two of his tweets, ones concerning his unsubstantiated claims about widespread mail-in voting fraud.

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Trump, in a tweet not specifically naming any platforms, said that, "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices."

What do you think? Is Twitter right?

Read in its entirety: Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms after Twitter fact checks claims on mail-in voting fraud

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10 hours ago, heron said:

Perhaps she should have said “implied” that trump is being censored. An easy assumption to make, since the OP cited an article about his executive order on social media and all/most of your posts mention actual censorship. Which, btw, has not happened, as far as I know.

Trump isn't silenced either...unfortunately.

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On 5/31/2020 at 9:24 PM, TomPaine said:

Where did I say Trump was censored? I went back and looked at this thread and I never said that. I said censorship is bad whether it comes from trump or other places.

I went back and looked at your posts in this thread and you never said anything about censorship coming from trump.

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Lmao. You can’t be serious. Conservatives never *** with their nonsense and 99.9% of it goes unchecked. It’s laughable that they say they’re being silenced. ?

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On 6/1/2020 at 3:06 PM, nursel56 said:

I went back and looked at your posts in this thread and you never said anything about censorship coming from trump.

Check out this screenshot...for the third time now on this thread I will say that censorship is bad whether it comes from Trump, social media companies, the government or anywhere else. People should be able to put their thoughts into the marketplace of ideas and the good ones will thrive. If someone says something stupid or racists people will recognize that and keep their distance. Or a few on the fringe may join but they'll be branded as stupid/racists, etc by the rest of us normal people who recognize stupidity. But the answer is not to censor people...because who makes those decisions on what to censor...the government? Look how well that's going in Russia and China.

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On 5/28/2020 at 6:52 PM, toomuchbaloney said:

It appears from your comment that you are confused about what the government may do versus what a privately held company may do. What is the difference between Twitter and the US POSTAL service, in your view?

Let the insults begin along with name calling--looks like Allnurses is only for those that agree with certain opinions....why bother commenting....

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1 minute ago, Leader25 said:
4 minutes ago, Leader25 said:

Let the insults begin along with name calling--looks like Allnurses is only for those that agree with certain opinions....why bother commenting....

QED - the perpetual victim card. And they call me a snowflake!

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