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Social media titans have enabled irresponsible leftist rhetoric to proliferate and pollute civil discourse.
The tragic murder of Charlie Kirk has exposed the dark underbelly of left-wing discourse on the Internet as users on BlueSky, Reddit, and Discord celebrate the vicious assassination of a young husband and father because of his politics and faith. Moreover, FBI Director Kash Patel has confirmed evidence that some media users may have previewed Kirk’s killing days beforehand (the FBI is investigating at least twenty Discord users for their communications with the killer).
This entire episode highlights the dangerous radicalization that has happened over years as extreme rhetoric online pushes young people toward desperate and awful acts. Social media companies need to take responsibility for their role in radicalization, and their failure to address irresponsible liberal discourse after their aggressive censorship of conservative viewpoints exposes a dangerous double standard.
A template for how private actors can self-police was on display Tuesday when local television affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair, forced Disney/ABC’s hand to cancel indefinitely Jimmy Kimmel Live! They recognized that the callousness and blatant misinformation on that show did not serve the public interest. By contrast, social media titans have enabled irresponsible leftist rhetoric to proliferate and pollute civil discourse.
For the last decade, the Left has sought to drive conservatives from the public square through tools like deplatforming and debanking. Working hand-in-glove with the Biden administration, for instance, the Big Tech companies canceled thousands of conservative voices who dared to challenge the then-conventional wisdom during the Covid-19 pandemic. And they did so again after the 2020 election, targeting “election deniers” and “J-6ers” for cancellation, even going so far as to ban President Trump. Not only everyday citizens, but a half-dozen senators and congressmen (all Republicans) had their accounts suspended for violating these “community standards.” Even Stripe stopped processing campaign contributions to Donald Trump because the financial services company believed he violated their arbitrary standards.
When the Big Tech companies defended those decisions in the media and the courts, they turned again and again to their “terms and conditions,” the contracts users sign that permitted the companies to remove content that violated their “community standards.” The popular conversation site Reddit, for instance, has a set of “Reddit Rules” that include principles like “[e]veryone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.” --->READ MORE HERE
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Having designated “Antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization,” President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum seeking to “dismantle” what he is calling domestic terror “networks” in the wake of a deadly shooting this week at an immigration facility in Texas.
Trump has solely blamed Democratic officials and left-leaning groups for incidents of political violence while largely dismissing evidence against right-wing or other ideologically motivated attacks.
Administration officials have repeatedly argued that Trump’s political opponents are fueling a surge of threats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tasked with carrying out his mass deportation agenda.
In remarks from the White House Thursday, the president claimed Democratic officials and “radical left rhetoric” are “out of control” and “will get to a point where people won’t take it anymore.”
“It’s gonna get worse, and ultimately it’s gonna go back on them,” Trump said, before issuing a thinly veiled threat.
“Bad things happen when they play these games. And I’ll give you a little clue: the right is a lot tougher than the left. But the right’s not doing this … and they better not get them energized, because it won’t be good for the left,” Trump warned. “And I don’t want to see that happen, either. … Radical left Democrats are causing this problem, and it gets worse. It will get to a point where people won’t take it anymore.”
In remarks from the Oval Office Thursday evening, Trump said “we’re looking at the funders of a lot of these groups,” amplifying a conspiracy theory that shadowy financiers are paying “professional” protesters to join demonstrations and unleash violence.
“These are professional anarchists and agitators, and they get hired by wealthy people — some of whom I know, I guess,” Trump said. “You wouldn’t know it at dinner with them, everything’s nice, and then you find out they funded millions of dollars to these lunatics.”
A joint terrorism task force within the FBI is “properly going to chase them down like the domestic terrorists that they are,” FBI director Kash Patel told reporters.
Critics have called Trump’s order a “witch hunt against Trump’s political adversaries.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story
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