The evidence is that a US President [1], however unpopular, and a US Senator [2], and multiple Congressmen/women have been censored [3] , and numerous other people, or messaging attached to their communications [4] . In some cases, unpopular causes, or causes contrary to a BigTech interest have been censored [5]. At the same time, certain terrorists have been permitted to distribute their messaging unhampered [6]. Although a national platform can be an issue, that hasn't stopped BigTech from stooping down to censor unpopular local govt [7] .
In some cases, governments have colluded with BigTech to censor their political rivals [8] or to flag content that a state government found undesirable [9]
Please provide your evidence to the contrary to disprove the truth of it.
Would you please stop it with the tedious name-calling, and also with the supercilious sneering at the community? I don't know how many hundreds of comments you've posted like this, but it's predictable enough to resemble a tic, and after god knows how many years of it, it's gotten really old. It's also trollish.
Also, please don't get into any more flamewars. It's not what this site is for.
I don't believe I called anyone names or sneered at the community in this thread and I think your description of me is uncharitable. The vast majority of my comments here have been positive, and I take far more abuse from this community than I give.
If you're talking about my comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28260455, that's humorous criticism of the community in a thread about criticism of the community, and every part of it is accurate. If you want tedious "tics" to call out, there's a list.
Being able to see the faults in a community and laugh at them is healthy. Far more so than the vituperative, contrarian snark this community expends on everything outside. And I'm not placing myself in a position above anyone here in doing so - I'm a part of this community so criticizing it is criticizing myself.
That said, I admit I got a bit overheated attacking what I thought was a bad comment here, let myself get too emotionally involved and made a bad situation worse, so mea culpa. Sometimes this place just makes me angry, and I resort to snark as a means of catharsis when really I should probably just step away for a while.
I wasn't talking about any comment in particular but the fact that you do this so often. Perhaps you don't mean it to come across as supercilious, but I would say it does.
I appreciate your reply though, because I was too harsh (I regretted it later and almost got up to edit it but was too tired). Sorry!
In some cases, governments have colluded with BigTech to censor their political rivals [8] or to flag content that a state government found undesirable [9]
Please provide your evidence to the contrary to disprove the truth of it.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/twitter-censors-twee...
[2] https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-releases-video...
[3] https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/397047-big-techs-c...
[4] https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_people_censored_by_Twi...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
[6] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/mo...
[7] https://youtubecensorship.com/2021-08-12-15-times-big-tech-c...
[8] https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07/21/biden-white-house-adm...
[9] https://survivalmagazine.org/news/huge-dr-shiva-discovers-ex...