BIG TECH HAS DEFINED CONSERVATISM AS "HATE SPEECH"
How to silence your political opposition using this one simple trick
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/big-tech-has-defined-conservatism-as-hate-speech/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
By corralling basic conservative opinions and beliefs under the umbrella of “hate speech,” social media giants have invented a new ploy to censor conservatives while claiming they are not censoring conservatives.
Nationalism, patriotism, populism, and Christianity are all now being treated as “hateful” by Big Tech.
These companies then engage in a form of legalese where they assert they are not banning people for their personal or political opinions, but because of violations of terms of service.
But the truth is that merely holding and expressing nationalist, populist, patriotic or Christian opinions and beliefs is deemed a “violation” because such beliefs have been subjectively defined as “hateful”.
For example, PayPal announced it was banning Infowars last week because Infowars had “promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance”.
In real terms, this meant that we had opposed the teaching of transgenderism to young children in schools and criticized political Islam.
Alex Jones was also de-platformed by every major Big Tech firm over spurious claims of “hateful” content that were never specifically quantified.
As the leaked Google meeting video illustrates, since November 2016, Big Tech vowed to use its vast power to squelch a movement that Silicon Valley elitists convinced themselves is based on “racism,” “xenophobia” and “extremism”.
By broadening the definition of “hate” to include any argument that challenges far-left progressive dogma, Big Tech has created an environment where the expression of any criticism of sexual lifestyles or belief systems, even if it doesn’t target individuals, can be defined as “harassment” or “hateful”.
This new definition has also been cemented with the aid of Democratic lawmakers like Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), who demanded Facebook and YouTube ban Alex Jones and Infowars for ‘offensive’ and ‘hateful’ content for weeks before it happened.
The “hateful” tag also just happens to be very similar to the “harmful” term utilized by the Communist Chinese government to justify its purge of dissident content.
“China has shut down more than 4,000 websites and online accounts in a three-month campaign against “harmful” online information,” reports ChannelNewsAsia, adding that examples of “harmful” behavior include “spreading rumours” and spreading “improper values”.
Just like the term “hate,” these terms are so vague that virtually anything could be defined as “harmful” or “improper,” which in this case includes dissidents who criticize the government on social media.
Now we see the emergence of “hate facts,” where conservatives can accurately quote crime statistics about minority groups which are provably true, yet publicly sharing such facts becomes a bannable offense because they could be seen to portray minority groups in a negative light.
Tommy Robinson was suspended by Twitter for accurately pointing out that up to 90% of grooming gang culprits in the United Kingdom come from Bangladeshi or Pakistani communities. Despite this being an objective fact, merely expressing it became verboten because it contradicted with the progressive narrative that immigration can only ever be positive.
Mastercard also terminated its agreement with Robert Spencer over vague, non-defined claims that Spencer had posted “illegal content” and promoted violence, an assertion backed up with no actual examples whatsoever.
In reality, Spencer’s crime was to oppose radical Islam, the most violent belief system on the planet.
Until prominent conservatives and Trump administration officials realize that Big Tech is overtly hostile to the mere expression of basic conservative beliefs and is busy creating an environment where they will become increasingly less tolerable, the silencing of voices on the right will only accelerate.
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PayPal Dumps Alex Jones; Still Handles SPLC
BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
PayPal finally joined other Big Tech giants in attacking Alex Jones and his Infowars empire, dumping the conservative conspiracy theorist from its site.The leftist Internet purchasing platform, which handles buying and selling goods online, targeted Jones because he retails “hate speech.” This, we are told, violates PayPal’s policies.The money-changing giant joined Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in waging war against Jones. The generalissimo in charge of the campaign was CNN’s senior media writer, Oliver Darcy.No Policy Violation PayPal’s notice gave Jones 10 days to find a new vendor to handle payments, The New York Times reported. “PayPal handles all transactions, including credit cards, for the Infowars online store.”Yet Paypal admitted Jones did nothing wrong. “PayPal said it had made its decision not because of any policy violation but because Infowars’ ‘promotion of hate and discrimination runs counter to our core value of inclusion.’”Said PayPal, “Our values are the foundation for the decision we made this week.”PayPal, it seems, has joined the other tech giants in a war to destroy Jones.As The New American reported in multiple articles, Facebook and YouTube banned Jones, followed by Twitter, which had suspended him for only seven days after his tussle with leftist Darcy and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Capitol Hill. That dust-up provoked Apple into dropping Jones’s Infowars app from its store. Before, Apple had stopped Jones from hawking his wares on iTunes.Leading this charge was Darcy, an owlish fellow terrified into speechlessness when Jones confronted him on Capitol Hill. Darcy had harassed Facebook officials about Jones, repeatedly demanding answers to questions he had no business asking.Questionable Groups Still On PayPal With Jones gone, PayPal can now concentrate on other organizations that use its platforms to raise money to peddle hatred, violence and murder.Black Lives Matter chapters across the country raise money on PayPal. Yet BLM activists have waged an ideological war against police. A police officer in Baton Rouge sued BLM after someone at a BLM rally hit him in the head with a rock. A judge dismissed the suit on a technicality, but BLM was, ultimately, the organizer of the rally where the policeman was injured.Another “charity” for which PayPal handles donations is Planned Parenthood, the federally-subsidized baby-killing operation. The organization retails extremist rhetoric to vilify those who oppose the mass murder of the unborn. PP performs some 321,000 “terminations” annually.As well, PP sold fetal remains to two companies that pled guilty to retailing the macabre goods on the international market, and the House Select Panel on Infant Lives found that PP ran a major wholesale operation to profit on the fetal remains.PP repeatedly lied to deny the truth. And its leftist allies helped.PayPal Helps Fund SPLC Hate Another of PayPal’s beneficiaries is the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited leftist hate group that recently settled a defamation claim because it had falsely accused a Muslim of being an “extremist.” The settlement included a confession of wrongdoing and retraction.SPLC’s record of smearing what it terms “extremists” is a long one. Two of its recent victims, as The New American reported, were Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihad Watch website, and David Horowitz.Beyond them, however, SPLC’s smear of the Family Research Council (FRC) led to violence.Relying on the SPLC’s designation of FRC as an anti-gay “extremist" organization, a terrorist walked into FRC's headquarters in Washington, D.C., and opened fire. The shooter told authorities that he relied on SPLC’s designation to choose FRC, and that he planned other attacks against conservatives.Beyond that, SPLC has stashed nearly $100 million in offshore tax-free bank accounts.A visit to the SPLC’s donation page shows that PayPal still handles the hate group’s donations, despite its long record of hate speech and smearing of conservatives, and ultimately, a “report” that encouraged a terrorist to attack a mainstream Christian group.Perhaps PayPal should ban BLM, PP, and SPLC given that their “promotion of hate and discrimination runs counter to [their] core value of inclusion.”