Timcast EP3 - Trump Steps Up The Fight Against Censorship
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🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The White house has a launched a tool for people to report political censorship on social media. While not directly impactful for now, it is the first step required to tackle the issue.
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| 0:00.0 | Our first story from the verge. Now I want to point out I don't consider the verge to be very credible. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm not saying they're, you know, I'll give them like a five out of ten, right? The story's okay, |
| 0:09.3 | but their misleading will get to this. They've done some things in the past that I think are |
| 0:13.0 | egregious violations of ethical standards. But the story, White House launches tool to report |
| 0:18.5 | censorship on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. If you suspect political bias caused |
| 0:23.2 | such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump. Now I use verge |
| 0:27.6 | on purpose because of their bias. Let's read the story. On Wednesday, the White House launched |
| 0:34.2 | a new tool for people to use if they feel they've been wrongly censored banned or suspended |
| 0:38.5 | on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. |
| 0:41.9 | Quote, too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended banned or fraudulently reported for |
| 0:46.8 | unclear violations of user policies. No matter your views, if you suspect political bias caused |
| 0:52.2 | such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump. I want to say, |
| 0:57.6 | this to me seems like the first step that could be taken in any official capacity to actually deal |
| 1:03.3 | with the problem of social media censorship. Trump, the White House, whatever Republicans, you can't |
| 1:10.4 | you can't stop a problem if you don't have it actually like charted out. So while I don't think |
| 1:16.8 | this is any significant action, and I do think this is going to be a big place that's aimed at |
| 1:22.1 | finding people who will support him, whatever your opinion is on what they're doing before anything |
| 1:27.6 | can actually happen. I mean for one thing Trump can't enact policies or anything like that. |
| 1:31.2 | But the first thing has to happen is you have to quantify the issue, figure out how widespread it |
| 1:35.3 | is, if it is widespread at all, do people actually care about it? If no one cares about the tool |
| 1:41.2 | and no one uses it, why would Trump be bothered by it? If it ends up being 50 people, why would Trump |
| 1:46.1 | or anyone else be bothered by it? I think it's going to be a lot more than that. Now there's another |
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