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Twitter enlists 'gay' thought police
Exclusive: Matt Barber notes anti-Christian GLAAD now helping to censor site
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This cannot be good for free speech and the open exchange of ideas. Not for Christians and conservatives anyway.

Twitter announced on Wednesday that it has assembled a new “Twitter Trust & Safety Council” to “ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter.”

Who’s for safety?

Yay safety!

Still, we need only look to the so-called “safe space” craze on America’s college campuses to gain a glimpse into what Twitter undoubtedly means here. Understand that, for the left, the word “safe” has nothing to do with, well, safety, and everything to do with censorship.

Let’s define the terms. Safe Space: noun, 1. progressive circle of self-entitled, everyone-gets-a-trophy basement-dwellers sheltered from critical thinking, differing opinions, reality and oxygen.

With its new initiative, Twitter says it seeks to “strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power.”

What, exactly, constitutes “abuse,” “truth” and “power” remains to be seen, but, based on Twitter’s long history of blacklisting and “unverifying” conservatives from its rolls, I think we all know who gets shafted on this.

“To ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter, we must provide more tools and policies,” the company claims. “Twitter does not tolerate behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user’s voice.”

Color me über-skeptical, but as Daniel Payne observes over at The Federalist, “Twitter already allows its users to either mute or block anyone who is being bothersome or threatening. There is no practical necessity for a ‘council’ to make people feel ‘safe’ on Twitter. Blocking is an effective tool for anyone who needs it. You can always report to the Twitter staff the rare troll who just won’t give up.

“The seemingly superfluous formation of a ‘Trust and Safety Council,’ then, suggests a kind of procedural overhaul of Twitter’s internal speech policy,” concludes Payne.

I agree.

Indeed, to the fragile liberal mind, any disagreement with its rigid, and decidedly one-sided, brand of “tolerance” and “diversity” constitutes “behavior intended to harass” or “intimidate.” To those who cannot win an argument on the merits, the path of least resistance is to silence all dissent.

Yet, if there was any question as to whether Twitter will be adopting the above-referenced definition of “safe space” in its effort to make tweeters “feel safe,” that question is immediately resolved by virtue of whom it has deputized. While there are a handful of legitimate, left-of-center anti-bullying organizations on the “council,” the list is likewise comprised up a rag-tag gaggle of fringe “progressive” groups like Feminist Frequency and GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

Conspicuously absent is even one conservative or Christian organization.

So, what will GLAAD and the rest of the “Tweet Police” be doing? It’s hard to say for sure since Twitter won’t, but, considering what GLAAD already does, we can venture a fair guess.

GLAAD is an extremist homosexual censorship group that, for its defamatory antics, was certified last year by the well-respected American Family Association as an “openly bigoted anti-Christian organization.” GLAAD’s primary purpose is to strong-arm the entertainment industry and news media into presenting unrealistically favorable portrayals of the homosexual and gender-confused lifestyles, while at once censoring positive portrayals of natural marriage and the natural family, and silencing those who hold biblical values relative to marriage and human sexuality.

One of GLAAD’s most troubling censorship efforts was its Orwellian “Commentator Accountability Project.” This was a desperate effort to “suppress the biblical worldview from media.” Various homosexual activists were conscripted to contact, badger and otherwise intimidate media outlets, such as CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, et al., into blacklisting leading Christian cultural analysts (yours truly included) from providing commentary and political analysis over the airwaves and in print.

While the smear campaign ultimately failed, it did betray, for all the world to see, GLAAD’s overt designs on anti-conservative, anti-Christian censorship. And now it has its grubby little rainbow-hued fingerprints all over one of the world’s largest and most popular social networking sites.

Enjoy your Twitter free speech while you can, conservative Christians. Your tweets are birds on a wire, and GLAAD’s got the pellet gun.


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/twitter-enlists-gay-thought-police/#s7miWMYOWestAYhq.99

Kevyn

Twitter is a private company, they can do as they damn well please. What are you some sort of commie suggesting differently?

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

But a Christian owned company that make cake IS NOT allowed to refuse making a "wedding" cake to celebrate homosexual behavior which, according to their religion, is a major sin.

Kevyn

One company discriminates against people the other won't allow discrimination, how can you not see the difference?

Olivia Rose

They need new people. This is called shock value.
Who gives a sh*t what your sexual preference is, just keep it personal.

rebob14

Fifty plus years ago, the word "twit" had a meaning and expressed a sentiment 180 degrees out from todays'. Only an organization with that name could have come up with this insanity. Two hundred years from now, when historians teach about the fall of great civilizations they will be astonished at the totality and speed of the collapse of western societies. Rome resisted for centuries under pressures much greater than we have faced - we have raced to the edge and jumped off with hardly thinking about what was happening. But.......what am I thinking? The true account of these times will have been scrubbed and nobody will be teaching much of anything.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

In an attempt to cut to the chase, & eliminate all the "flora, & fauna" of educated English legalese:

MAYBE "CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS, CAN "SHIT IN THE EYE OF TWITTER IDIOTS", BEFORE THEY CAN "PULL THE TRIGGER"? :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Of course you mean the Christians and conservatives are being discriminated against by being denied representation and the bakery being forced too violate their religion are also victims of discrimination.You almost had it right.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

{ story of "kevyn's sad life......."never could get it right"!............ :oops: :oops: :cry: :cry: :thumbdown: }

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

It is my observation that Kevyn believes that only Islam cannot be discriminated against and that is probably because their punishment for insulting Mohammed is to be beheaded. Christians, on the other hand , will show you God's love and help you control your desire so you can become a better person. Kevyn has no intention, apparently, of controlling any of his impulses.

73STNGLKABEE

There is no difference ding dong, like you said, they are a privately owned company, they can do as they please, thank you hypocrite.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

SIMPLY "IGNORE", EVERYPOST "KEVYN" PLACES HERE.......HE IS A HOPELESS IDIOT, NO MORALS, & NO COMMON SENSE!

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

From what I read there was no talk of discrimination in the article. It stated that they wanted people to be able to express themselves freely and safely. There was no mention of discrimination.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

If the liberals have their way!!
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Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

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