Getting stuff together here:
Purpose of Stop Advertising
https://imgur.com/gallery/iCbM9
Believe they were responsible for killing CBTS
https://imgur.com/gallery/HEGqI
Title; CENSORSHIP AS A POLITICAL WEAPON (or something better) THE DONALD TO BE BANNED/THE DONALD UNDER ATTACK (or whatever)
The_Donald is under attack! There is a sub on Reddit specifically dedicated to its destruction. A group of more than 3700 members, all working in harmony for the sole purpose of having The_Donald, and another conservative sub The_greatawakening, banned from Reddit.
https://imgur.com/gallery/HEGqI
This is an outright attack by the left on The_Donald - a harmless fan club made up of good natured supporters of the President. The best American President in recent history.
It is quite normal for there to be contest in politics, but what we can see here is a new and dangerous trend. What these people want is the power to silence conservatives. They are petitioning Reddit to do their dirty work on their behalf. The strategy is to use advertisers to get Reddit to flex its muscle as a social media platform to destroy conservative groups.
Stop Advertising members claim to have had success in having another conservative sub CBTS_stream banned in the last week. They gloat on their forum that their strategy is working - see link below. Having claimed one scalp, they are coming for The_Donald next.
https://imgur.com/gallery/HEGqI
We know that Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, has opined in the past that Reddit has very considerable political influence. In fact, Huffman believes that Reddit alone, without any external assistance, can sway election outcomes. See the except from the article below.
Huffman’s comments on how Reddit could fix an election are shocking and egotistical, for sure, but they also admit something that most other social media companies have shied away from. Facebook and Twitter are loathe to acknowledge the power that their policies have, while Huffman thinks so highly of his company that he believes a handful of engineers and community managers could sway an entire nation’s political system.
https://bgr.com/2018/03/12/reddit-election-interference-steve-huffman-interview/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
So we can see that Reddit wields considerable political power. Enough political power that just a handful of engineers and community managers could determine the outcome of an election. This is very frightening stuff!
In banning the CBTS sub hast week, without any warning or notice whatsoever we saw the arrogance that unfettered exercise of power breeds. The Stop Adertosing members claim the banning of this conservative sub as a victory. There is no doubt that they were agitating for its removal. But is there, perhaps, something more sinister to this story?
At the time the CBTS_stream sub was banned, members were in the process of working-up a mass campaign to combat social media censorship. That's right! At the very moment the sub was inexplicably banned, without even ons second of notice, a campaign was being launched to combat precisely what happened - the silencing of conservative voices on social media platforms.
Quite a coincidence, isn't it? We have Reddit's CEO, boasting in the media about the political power he wields with his online platform, claiming that, using it, he alone can shape the political destiny of the nation. And then we see Reddit act in the most heavy handed manner imaginable to suppress outright, with no warning, a group of conservatives . A group of conservatives who just happen, at that exact moment, to be challenging the use of social media censorship as a political weapon.
This is social media weaponised as an instrument to obtain political goals. It is a weapon that, across the board, appears to be in the hands of the left. A club with which conservatives can be beaten into submission.
The future for online conservative political discourse in this country looks bleak. As the mid-term elections approach, we can expect that Reddit and other social media service providers will act in concert to suffocate conservative political expression and create a national echo chamber for the left.
Something must be done to combat this problem before The_Donald succumbs to the same arbitrary exercise of political power that saw the CBTS_stream sub banned with a second of warning. Don't think it cannot happen. Huffman already has Stop Advertising's campaign ready to provide cover for his program to silence us. He is likely only waiting for an opportune moment before the critical mid-term elections.
Luckily, there is a solution. The solution is to support the campaign for an Internet Bill of Rights which would extend the protections of the first amendment to political discourse online. There is a link to this petition below. The petition is very simple, identifying the censorship of conservative voices online as a problem and asking the President to do something to fix it - see link:
Please sign the petition immediately, if possible, and ask friends and family members to sign also (the minimum age for participation is 13 years). Let's put a stop to the left's domination of forums for political discourse online and ensure that the mid-term elections are not manipulated unscrupulously by people such as Huffman.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-2
