Censorship

Last week the New York Times published an article allegedly from Hunter Biden’s Laptop.  The big story isn’t the accusation that Hunter Biden sold access to his father to his Russian Oil Company employers.  The big news isn’t the accusation (with pictures) of drug parties. 

The big news is that Facebook, Twitter and other “news outlets” blocked the stories.  Their excuse is Twitter said it violated the company’s “Hacked Materials Policy,” while Facebook said it would reduce the story’s visibility until fact checkers could weigh in.

Both companies allowed President Trump’s hacked tax returns, and numerous other anti-Trump allegations (without fact checkers) to be spread.

Oddly Sky News in Australia has had the best coverage on Hunter Biden’s Laptop. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5Ogxk6fEw

Both companies have immunity from lawsuits on content based on the premise that they are not publishers and have no control over content.  They are considered “platforms for information” not news sources.

This censorship proves they are not just platforms but have an agenda.  

Go on Facebook and look for “Why doesn’t Trump oppose White supremacy?  There will be thousands of posts in spite of the fact that Trump has repeatedly denounced white supremacy, the KKK and David Duke.  

According to FactCheck.Org, Joe Biden said on Feb. 9:

 “ I, honest to God believe, they’re going to change the nature of who we are for a long, long time. Our children are listening. The idea — the man who can belittle people, go on dividing us based on race, religion, ethnicity, based on all the things that, in fact, make up America is just incredibly divisive. You see these white supremacists coming out from under the rocks. He’s yet once to condemn white supremacy, the neo-Nazis. He hasn’t condemned a darn thing. He has given them oxygen. And that’s what’s going to continue to happen. That’s who this guy is. He has no basic American values — he doesn’t understand the American code” This has been tweeted and posted on Facebook thousands of times.

FactChecks.Org wrote:

Biden even said that Trump’s comments in the aftermath of the Charlottesville rally convinced him to run for president. In a video announcing his candidacy, Biden said Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” comment “assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it” and “shocked the conscience of the nation.”

Trump has said his “very fine people” comment referred not to white supremacists and neo-Nazis but to “people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee — a great general, whether you like it or not.” Some have argued that explanation doesn’t hold up, because Trump referred in that statement to a protest “the night before” when — it was widely reported — white nationalists burned tiki torches and chanted anti-Semitic and white nationalist slogans. We’ll leave it to readers to make up their minds on Trump’s remarks, but Biden’s comment that Trump has “yet once to condemn white supremacy” is not accurate.

Let’s revisit Trump’s comments in the days after the Charlottesville rally. That rally turned violent, and one person, Heather Heyer, was killed and many others injured, when a man with a history of making racist comments plowed his car into a group of counter-protesters. 

The day of that incident Trump said, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides.” Trump said he had spoken to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, and “we agreed that the hate and the division must stop, and must stop right now. We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation and true affection — really — and I say this so strongly — true affection for each other.”

Two days later, on Aug. 14, 2017, Trump issued a statement from the White House, and referred to “KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

Trump, Aug. 14, 2017: As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. It has no place in America.

And as I have said many times before: No matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God. We must love each other, show affection for each other, and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry, and violence. We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans.

Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.

We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal. We are equal in the eyes of our Creator. We are equal under the law. And we are equal under our Constitution. Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.

During a press conference the following day, Aug. 15, 2017, Trump explained his initial “many sides” comment.  

“You had a group on one side that was bad,” Trump said. “And you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.” He added, “I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch.” 

The truth is Trump condemned racism. But Twitter, Facebook and many other Media outlets refuse to print the truth.