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Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by chandra381 on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:43AM (#25820363)
Multiple studies have shown that Facebook and twitter do not censor conservatives. This has been well established and anyone who argues otherwise is either ignorant or arguing from a position of bad faith.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again...

> What we see for prominent conservatives, however, feels very unfair to me

I find this extremely ironic given that the slogan "facts don't care about your feelings" is attributed to conservatives in particular

Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by xpaqui on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:13AM (#25820529)
All the "conservatives/libertarians" I've followed on youtube have been both demonetized and had videos suspended. It's a small sample size but all?!, what a coincidence. From the "left leaning" channels I follow I've not seen the same complain.

I don't follow anyone on facebook or twitter I can't vouch for those, maybe it's just youtube who does all the censoring.

Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by antris on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:59AM (#25821341)
In general "conservatives" seem to have a harder time following TOS on hate speech, bullying, racism, sexism etc.
Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by collyw on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:41AM (#25821653)
Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by phatfish on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:53AM (#25821285)
Maybe if you name/link them we can decide if it was reasonable or not.
Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by xpaqui on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:50AM (#25823646)
On youtube

Joe Rogan, Sargon of Akkad, Viva Frey, Academic Agent, Thunderf00t, 1791

Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by Chris2048 on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:39AM (#25820722)
> Multiple studies have shown

Are you talking about the two in this article, or alluding to more?

The studies:

1) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/censorship-conserva...

"The findings demonstrate how a small number of conservative users routinely outpace their liberal rivals and traditional news outlets in driving the online conversation — amplifying their impact a little more than a week before Election Day. They contradict the prevailing political rhetoric from some Republican lawmakers that conservative voices are censored online — indicating that instead, right-leaning talking points continue to shape the worldviews of millions of U.S. voters."

2) https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/new-study-finds-facebo...

"right-leaning pages consistently earned more average weekly interactions than either left-leaning or ideologically nonaligned pages"

This doesn't seem to me to support that "Facebook and twitter do not censor conservatives";

The assumption seems to be that if conservatives are ultimately more influential, they mustn't have been censored. I'm also not sure how fine-grained the distinction of right/left leaning is.

If all conservatives voices are censored except for a few far-right/extremist voices that are amplified, does this balance out? Add a few more dimensions and you might come up with a different conclusion.

In any case, I'll need to see more before I agree it's "well established".