This cannot be good for free speech and the open exchange of ideas. Not for Christians and conservatives anyway.
Twitter announced on Wednesday that it has assembled a new Twitter Trust & Safety Council" to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter."
Whos for safety?
Yay safety!
Still we need only look to the so-called safe space" craze on Americas college campuses to gain a glimpse into what Twitter undoubtedly means here. Understand that for the left the word safe" has nothing to do with well safety and everything to do with censorship.
Lets define the terms. Safe Space: noun 1. progressive circle of self-entitled everyone-gets-a-trophy basement-dwellers sheltered from critical thinking differing opinions reality and oxygen.
With its new initiative Twitter says it seeks to strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power."
What exactly constitutes abuse" truth" and power" remains to be seen but based on Twitters long history of blacklisting and unverifying" conservatives from its rolls I think we all know who gets shafted on this.
To ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter we must provide more tools and policies" the company claims. Twitter does not tolerate behavior intended to harass intimidate or use fear to silence another users voice."
Color me ber-skeptical but as Daniel Payne observes over at The Federalist Twitter already allows its users to either mute or block anyone who is being bothersome or threatening. There is no practical necessity for a council to make people feel safe on Twitter. Blocking is an effective tool for anyone who needs it. You can always report to the Twitter staff the rare troll who just wont give up.
The seemingly superfluous formation of a Trust and Safety Council then suggests a kind of procedural overhaul of Twitters internal speech policy" concludes Payne.
I agree.
Indeed to the fragile liberal mind any disagreement with its rigid and decidedly one-sided brand of tolerance" and diversity" constitutes behavior intended to harass" or intimidate." To those who cannot win an argument on the merits the path of least resistance is to silence all dissent.
Yet if there was any question as to whether Twitter will be adopting the above-referenced definition of safe space" in its effort to make tweeters feel safe" that question is immediately resolved by virtue of whom it has deputized. While there are a handful of legitimate left-of-center anti-bullying organizations on the council" the list is likewise comprised up a rag-tag gaggle of fringe progressive" groups like Feminist Frequency and GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).
Conspicuously absent is even one conservative or Christian organization.
So what will GLAAD and the rest of the Tweet Police" be doing? Its hard to say for sure since Twitter wont but considering what GLAAD already does we can venture a fair guess.
GLAAD is an extremist homosexual censorship group that for its defamatory antics was certified last year by the well-respected American Family Association as an openly bigoted anti-Christian organization." GLAADs primary purpose is to strong-arm the entertainment industry and news media into presenting unrealistically favorable portrayals of the homosexual and gender-confused lifestyles while at once censoring positive portrayals of natural marriage and the natural family and silencing those who hold biblical values relative to marriage and human sexuality.
One of GLAADs most troubling censorship efforts was its Orwellian Commentator Accountability Project." This was a desperate effort to suppress the biblical worldview from media." Various homosexual activists were conscripted to contact badger and otherwise intimidate media outlets such as CNN Fox News the New York Times et al. into blacklisting leading Christian cultural analysts (yours truly included) from providing commentary and political analysis over the airwaves and in print.
While the smear campaign ultimately failed it did betray for all the world to see GLAADs overt designs on anti-conservative anti-Christian censorship. And now it has its grubby little rainbow-hued fingerprints all over one of the worlds largest and most popular social networking sites.
Enjoy your Twitter free speech while you can conservative Christians. Your tweets are birds on a wire and GLAADs got the pellet gun.
This cannot be good for free speech and the open exchange of ideas. Not for Christians and conservatives anyway.
Twitter announced on Wednesday that it has assembled a new Twitter Trust & Safety Council" to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter."
Whos for safety?
Yay safety!
Still we need only look to the so-called safe space" craze on Americas college campuses to gain a glimpse into what Twitter undoubtedly means here. Understand that for the left the word safe" has nothing to do with well safety and everything to do with censorship.
Lets define the terms. Safe Space: noun 1. progressive circle of self-entitled everyone-gets-a-trophy basement-dwellers sheltered from critical thinking differing opinions reality and oxygen.
With its new initiative Twitter says it seeks to strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power."
What exactly constitutes abuse" truth" and power" remains to be seen but based on Twitters long history of blacklisting and unverifying" conservatives from its rolls I think we all know who gets shafted on this.
To ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter we must provide more tools and policies" the company claims. Twitter does not tolerate behavior intended to harass intimidate or use fear to silence another users voice."
Color me ber-skeptical but as Daniel Payne observes over at The Federalist Twitter already allows its users to either mute or block anyone who is being bothersome or threatening. There is no practical necessity for a council to make people feel safe on Twitter. Blocking is an effective tool for anyone who needs it. You can always report to the Twitter staff the rare troll who just wont give up.
The seemingly superfluous formation of a Trust and Safety Council then suggests a kind of procedural overhaul of Twitters internal speech policy" concludes Payne.
I agree.
Indeed to the fragile liberal mind any disagreement with its rigid and decidedly one-sided brand of tolerance" and diversity" constitutes behavior intended to harass" or intimidate." To those who cannot win an argument on the merits the path of least resistance is to silence all dissent.
Yet if there was any question as to whether Twitter will be adopting the above-referenced definition of safe space" in its effort to make tweeters feel safe" that question is immediately resolved by virtue of whom it has deputized. While there are a handful of legitimate left-of-center anti-bullying organizations on the council" the list is likewise comprised up a rag-tag gaggle of fringe progressive" groups like Feminist Frequency and GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).
Conspicuously absent is even one conservative or Christian organization.
So what will GLAAD and the rest of the Tweet Police" be doing? Its hard to say for sure since Twitter wont but considering what GLAAD already does we can venture a fair guess.
GLAAD is an extremist homosexual censorship group that for its defamatory antics was certified last year by the well-respected American Family Association as an openly bigoted anti-Christian organization." GLAADs primary purpose is to strong-arm the entertainment industry and news media into presenting unrealistically favorable portrayals of the homosexual and gender-confused lifestyles while at once censoring positive portrayals of natural marriage and the natural family and silencing those who hold biblical values relative to marriage and human sexuality.
One of GLAADs most troubling censorship efforts was its Orwellian Commentator Accountability Project." This was a desperate effort to suppress the biblical worldview from media." Various homosexual activists were conscripted to contact badger and otherwise intimidate media outlets such as CNN Fox News the New York Times et al. into blacklisting leading Christian cultural analysts (yours truly included) from providing commentary and political analysis over the airwaves and in print.
While the smear campaign ultimately failed it did betray for all the world to see GLAADs overt designs on anti-conservative anti-Christian censorship. And now it has its grubby little rainbow-hued fingerprints all over one of the worlds largest and most popular social networking sites.
Enjoy your Twitter free speech while you can conservative Christians. Your tweets are birds on a wire and GLAADs got the pellet gun.