New Report Highlights Conservative Concerns With Facebook Andrew Torba, August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 Share this: Former Senator Jon Kyl conducted a review of potential anti-conservative bias at Facebook and found that conservatives were concerned about many different areas of bias in Facebook policies, products, and enforcement practices. The study interviewed 133 conservatives to gather their concerns and summarize them in a new report which was provided to Facebook. The concerns fell into six different categories including content distribution, content policies, content enforcement, ad policies, ad enforcement, and workforce viewpoint diversity. None of these should come as any surprise being that Facebook is located in the Bay Area, workforce viewpoint diversity is obviously one of the top concerns of conservatives. Their content policies around topics such as “hate speech” are also a major concern being that Facebook allegedly prides itself on free speech while banning “hate speech,” something that the Supreme Court has ruled time and time again is protected by the First Amendment. Content PoliciesAlthough Facebook values free expression, it also wants to ensure that usersfeel welcome and safe on the platform. To that end, Facebook has established “CommunityStandards” governing which types of content are prohibited from the platform. Conservativeinterviewees identified concerns in the following areas:1.Hate Speech Designations: On this front, interviewees’ concerns stemmed both from thenotion of having a “hate speech” policy in the first place and from unfair labeling ofcertain speech as “hate speech.” Interviewees often pointed out the highly subjectivenature of determining what constitutes “hate”—an assessment that may be subject to thebiases of content reviewers. The term “hate speech” is itself controversial, insofar as itmay incorrectly ascribe motive in many cases.2. Hate Organization Designations: Facebook prohibits use of the platform by “terroristgroups and hate organizations,” and removes content that praises them, their actions, ortheir members. We note both the importance of distinguishing between the “hatespeech” and “hate organization” designations, and the confusion the similarity of the twolabels can cause. Interviewees frequently expressed concern over Facebook’s perceivedreliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”) and other left-leaningorganizations to identify hate groups. Many conservatives view the SPLC as an extremeorganization intent on defaming conservatives.3. Other Content Policies: Interviewees believed that other aspects of Facebook’sCommunity Standards also disproportionately affect conservative content— particularlypro-life, socially conservative, and religious content. Some interviewees gave specificexamples of Facebook flagging such content as violating the Community Standards butlater overturning those decisions upon review. In addition, interviewees opined thatFacebook’s Community Standards are too complex and difficult to navigate, making ithard to understand the rules of the road when using the platform. Facebook committed to more “transparency” and “oversight boards” among other lip service to appease the concerns from conservatives. They know that if they lose conservative users, they lose their data and thus their business model of monetizing that data. Everyday we learn of new instances of pro-life groups, Christians, and conservatives who are being banned or through in timeout by Facebook for having politically incorrect opinions that don’t align with the progressive “values” held by Facebook employees and moderators. Facebook’s lip service isn’t going to change reality: if you’re a Christian, conservative, or have politically incorrect opinions: you will be silenced by the platform. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. If Facebook was truly keen on being more transparent they would open source their code like Gab did to allow anyone to inspect just how the News Feed and other parts of the service work. They would of course never do this because they aren’t actually interested in transparency. They are interested in keep conservatives feeling welcome so they continue to make them vast amounts of money. Hi there! Gab is fully supported by people like you. If you want to help us on our mission to defend free expression online for all people and decentralize control of the internet away from Silicon Valley here is how you can help. Purchase the PIA VPN by clicking the image above to support Gab in the process. Buy a VPN from one of our partners to secure your privacy and we may earn commission–Trust.Zone for Windows/Android–CyberGhostVPN for all operating systems Purchase merchandise to support Gab. Click to see much more on our store. Send bitcoin: 3DjemruRRvunHTHxNJbwoRCzCFWagw6vo2 Big Tech censorshipfacebook
Big Tech YouTube killing built-in ‘Messages’ feature next month August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 Share this:YouTube is killing their DM system. They don’t want you communicating in “private” on their platform anymore. In fact, in an ideal world they don’t want you exchanging messages at all. They want you passively consuming videos and ads, all day long. Like a good consumer data slave. RIP YouTube… Read More
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