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Sunday, August 19, 2018

TRUMP DECRIES SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS FOR "CLOSING DOWN THE OPINIONS OF MANY PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT"

TRUMP DECRIES SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS FOR "CLOSING DOWN THE OPINIONS OF MANY PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT" 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/trump-decries-social-media-giants-for-closing-down-the-opinions-of-many-people-on-the-rightrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
He is right, of course, and if it isn’t stopped, only one point of view will be able to be aired in the United States. That is not what makes for a free society.
“Trump slams social-media companies for ‘censorship’ of the right,” by Rebecca Ballhaus, Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2018:
President Trump on Saturday threatened action against social-media companies, saying they were suspending accounts in a manner that was “totally discriminating” against conservatives.
Tweeting from his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., Trump said unnamed social-media companies were “closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others.”
“Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen,” Trump said. “Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police,” he continued. “Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!”…
Social-media companies have said they don’t single out conservatives for stricter enforcement…