In fairness, I do this kind of thing 3 or 4 times a day.
I think the tech companies are going all out for Biden because if Trump wins, they are going to be regulated by the government and forced to stop censoring conservatives.
Is anyone trying some of the usual tricks to get round censorship of this sort, such as posting a link like this:
http colon slash slash skeptiko dot com
Variants like that can usually trick automatic censoring.
David
There is one delicious irony to the email story. Pelosi started the impeachment stunt (it could never have passed in the Senate, so it was never going to mean anything) and the hearings drew attention to the whole issue of the Bidens and Ukraine. It is entirely possible that she inadvertently pulled the whole house of cards down with that one mistake.
Presumably that must also mean that many Democratic politicians were unaware of this problem - so I wonder if a few of them might start to disassociate themselves from their party?
David
Well.... if I see a url spelled out that way, I know it is important. A lot of stuff is censored nowadays and that trick alerts people to the situation.That method might work technically but it is not a really a satisfactory solution because many fewer people will look at the article if there isn't a real link. This means the conservative web sites will not get as much web traffic when they are censored. This has ramifications beyond just the story being censored because it will result in fewer subscribers and less revenue for commercial sites.
Most web sites need readers to share articles to twitter and facebook etc by clicking on the twitter or facebook icon on the web page with the article. That generates a post to your twitter or facebook feed with a link to the article. The point is that some of your friends and followers will hopefully retweet it or share it on facebook too, and also click on the link and go to the web site posting the article and then maybe click on advertisers - which is how they make money. Unless sharing can generate a real link in the social media posts, fewer people will go to the original article and subscribers and revenue will be much less.
The social media censorship puts conservative media companies and web sites at a disadvantage it is much harder for them gain readers and revenue so it is harder for them to survive without social media access.
Twitter and facebook have a huge influence on the viability of commercial sites. If you don't have access to twitter and facebook your business might not be viable. Its a antitrust issue as well as a censorship issue.
Well.... if I see a url spelled out that way, I know it is important. A lot of stuff is censored nowadays and that trick alerts people to the situation.
Signifying the fact that information is being censored is itself important.
Alternatively, creating a TinyURL might fool the censoring software for a while.
David
The big donors never liked Trump who wanted to drain the swamp. Multinational corporations don't like Trump's pro-worker trade policies, armaments manufactures don't like his anti-war foreign policies, drug companies don't like his policies to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals, etc etc. Even government regulation which you would think would be onerous to corporations creates a barrier to entry for smaller companies that might destabilize an industry with new technology - so when Trump reduces government regulation he is actually threatening large corporations.