{"id":1359166,"date":"2022-03-04T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359166"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:22:53","slug":"leftists-demand-big-tech-preemptively-censor-trumps-truth-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-demand-big-tech-preemptively-censor-trumps-truth-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Demand Big Tech Preemptively Censor Trump\u2019s Truth Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-demand-big-tech-preemptively-censor-trumps-truth-social%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-12.15.49-PM-e1646417824868.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social wants to make itself cancel-proof against leftist demands that Big Tech preemptively deplatform it. <\/p>\n<p>So far, the increasingly popular free speech platform has already survived attacks from the corporate media hellbent on smearing anything associated with Trump. Now, leftists are wielding Jan. 6 as an excuse to demand Big Tech companies such as Apple thwart Truth Social before it even becomes fully operational at the end of the month. <\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/big-tech-could-save-us-from-truth-social-a0e6e5cf4b9d\">\u201cBig Tech Could Save Us From \u2018Truth Social,&#8217;\u201d<\/a> author Samuel O\u2019Brient, who has a history of demanding censorship because he believes <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/indian-thoughts\/limiting-free-speech-is-essential-to-democracy-ec9dbfe9af58\">\u201cLimiting Free Speech is Essential to Democracy<\/a>,\u201d argues that Big Tech companies should preemptively nuke the anti-political censorship platform simply because it is associated with the former president. <\/p>\n<p id=\"7fce\">\u201cTrump clearly wants to use Truth Social to rally his troops again and fire them up for another run at the White House. There\u2019s almost no way that such a mission won\u2019t include inciting violence in some form,\u201d O\u2019Brient wrote this week. \u201cIf Truth Social becomes a venue for hate-spewing and further insurrection-plotting, these big tech giants can buy themselves a lot of goodwill by honoring their credos and standing up to protect American democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While corporate media are still largely focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNnewsroom\/status\/1495866208582832132?s=20&#038;t=Vg9Kjb2TeUhCyZyGOQmb6g\">downplaying the number of people <\/a>abandoning propaganda sites run by the political actors in Big Tech, leaders at Truth Social know that a war on their attempt to offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/truth-social-content-moderation\">\u201cfamily-friendly\u201d<\/a> social media site is coming and they are prepared to stop it in its tracks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campaign by the left and the mainstream media to censor and suppress other viewpoints is a shocking threat to democracy,\u201d Devin Nunes, CEO of Trump Media &#038; Technology Group (TMTG) in charge of launching Truth Social, told The Federalist. \u201cThe fact that there\u2019s even a need and a demand for Truth Social \u2013 a social media platform that won\u2019t censor content based on viewpoints \u2013 is unsettling in itself. Once you begin censoring, the suppressions develop a momentum of their own. This naturally leads to demands for preemptive censorship, which until recently was a concept you only found in dystopian science fiction novels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the difficulties presented by a market largely controlled by Big Tech monopolies, Truth Social built most of its platform <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/22\/donald-trump-has-to-build-and-protect-truth-social-with-both-hands-tied-behind-his-back\/\">from the ground up<\/a>. Parler previously tried a similar strategy but was eventually nuked by dozens of companies who wanted the platform gone for political reasons. Unlike in Parler\u2019s case, Apple is really the only Big Tech company that has the power to remove Truth Social from its app store and the new social media platform is already working to keep the illegal activity that censors use to justify suppression off of the platform. <\/p>\n<p>While some are calling for Truth Social to be wiped off of the web, the leaders of the social media company are confident that their lack of reliance on corrupt, political actors for web services will guard them against sudden deplatforming. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re building as much of our own infrastructure as possible from scratch. We won\u2019t be relying on Big Tech firms to keep our website on the internet, and we\u2019re partnering with companies that are fundamentally committed to free speech, such as Rumble,\u201d Nunes said. <\/p>\n<p>Big Tech is filled with political entities that have used their influence and authority to suppress narratives about Covid-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article258895073.html\">biological sex<\/a>, and political stances they dislike. During the 2020 election alone, social media oligarchs did their best to alter the election outcome in favor of now-President Joe Biden. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was caught red-handed funneling money into poor election practices that benefit Democrats and Twitter, aided by the corrupt corporate media, deliberately blacked out any coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Facebook, Twitter, and others justified wiping Trump off of their platforms for \u201cinciting violence\u201d but have let actual warmongers like <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/04\/after-banning-trump-for-denouncing-violence-twitter-lets-putin-keep-his-account\/\">Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin stay on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Users are hungry for a social media platform that doesn\u2019t threaten them when they think or speak differently than the regime desires and Nunes said they will find it with Truth Social. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Big Tech companies generally did not begin as leftwing propaganda projects. In fact, the founders of a lot of these companies were idealistic proponents of free speech. But over time, they got corrupted and transformed their platforms into appendages of the Democratic Party and the left,\u201d Nunes said. \u201cTruth Social won\u2019t do that, no matter the pressure from the media, the government, the left, or anywhere else. President Trump, myself, and others here have spent years fighting back against the left\u2019s ridiculous attempts to silence us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nunes is all too familiar with political censorship that is strategically used to justify false narratives circulated by the corrupt corporate media. When he served as the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes was quick to call out the fraudulent stories about Trump colluding with Russia which were repeatedly promoted by the dishonest press. Nunes also helped expose Twitter for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/43paqq\/twitter-is-shadow-banning-prominent-republicans-like-the-rnc-chair-and-trump-jrs-spokesman\">shadowbanning conservatives<\/a> like him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t eliminate one side from the public debate and expect to keep a healthy democracy. Everyone is entitled to have their say, and we\u2019re not going to hire a bunch of Big Tech-style political\u00a0enforcers and ideological goons to force-feed you the viewpoints we decide you should be reading. That\u2019s condescending and unfair, and we won\u2019t do it,\u201d Nunes said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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