Since November 8th, Fox News has been completely silent on Twitter. Though it has not acknowledged it publicly, it is believed that Fox is conducting a “Twitter strike” in protest of Twitter not removing Tucker Carlson’s personal information posted maliciously by left-wing “doxxers”. The Washington Examiner reports:
Fox News hasn’t tweeted since Nov. 8 — a whole month — leaving 18.3 million followers in the dark over why.
Along with their associated Twitter accounts like Fox News Poll, Fox News Politics, and Fox Business, the company seems to have put a Twitter boycott in place, but haven’t released any explanation as to why or put out any demands for change that would lead to their return.
The accounts have remained silent despite big world events such as the death of former President George H. W. Bush and the G-20 summit.
Fox News’ refusal to use the social media platform coincides with the doxing of host Tucker Carlson’s address on it and a large group of Antifa protesters showing up at Carlson’s home in early November. This is the suspected reason for the conservative-leaning cable news network choosing to avoid Twitter, but they continue to not confirm for certain.
Twitter’s continuous attack on conservatives has not gone unnoticed, and this could be another piece of evidence in the case that many on the left and right are building to turn social media websites into “public utilities”.
Social media sucks. The dumb shits believe what is on their sites. Plus they are totally biased!
I think Fox is doing the right thing, should ignore Facebook etc. they are so left leaning, and do their best to stop conservative viewpoints etc. in my opinion they have too much power.
Twitter has proven itself a left-wing tool. Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc. have become excessively politically biased and should be forced to conform to open communication requirements. They have become effectively a most significant platform of communication and should be regulated like public utilities.
Agree!!
Fox Should drop Crapbook too. Boycott them. Also prevent any advertising for Fox from running on their platforms, that way the over privileged bigoted whiners can lose revenue and will have to face their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors because their tacit and not so tacit manipulation of who has free speech and who doesn’t will directly impact their bottom line. So the institutional investors can face lawsuits for mismanagement of money if they retain shares of crapbook and shwitter for too long.
Despite being a semi useful distribution means, every one of the real conservatives should stop any sort of crapbook live shows, and silence their twit-error streams. They can monitor but not post to the platforms. They should also refuse advertising from anyone who advertises on these bigotopian platforms until the racist haters either shut down or stop abusing their monopolies.
The truth is social media is for all intents and purposes a broadcast medium in addition to being on the internet. Therefore, the FCC has primary authority over their content and behavior in the same way it has authority over TV & Radio. Even though I hate excessive regulation, the FCC should go full Obama and Lois Lerner on these social media Brownshirts, and write abusive regulations that force them be transparent in all the ways they aren’t. I’d love to see them dragged around by the nose and put under the microscope by the FCC instead of the political grandstanding of congressional defecations.
I’d even force them to produce their entire unredacted unedited historical code base for inspection, especially the AI weighting factors, so we can see how it evolved over time. Developer comments should provide some interesting insight into exactly what they were thinking as the wrote new code and modified older code (with a high probability of being embarrassing) . All of these companies maintain revision control, configuration management, content management systems that should be harvested for the children ™
Realistically Doxxing should be a felony, and doxxers should be treated like drunk drivers who injure and kill people as result of their activity – they should be held totally responsible for anything that happens to those they dox, as should the people who harm the doxxed in any way, primarily because doxxing is meant to cause harm it’s *like* assault with a deadly weapon.
I should point out that Twitter is technically an accessory to any crime committed against Tucker and his family, since they have not removed the doxxing information nor have the terminated the account/person that did it. They have billions of dollars for some blood sucking lawyers to seek.
Makes one wonder , who is running the country ! I am a veteran who served on the UsS Intrepid. For about 37 of the best months of my life.Sheis a proud old lady . I would like all the crooks in congress to go to jail. Well that leaves very few to run the country ,maybe about 40′ and that might be truer than anyone would think.Its a shame and sinfull that there are so many self righteous phonies in our elected officials Horray for president Trump ,not that he is perfect by any means but I’d bet on him to protect this nation of ours before a Hillary or Bill or Barrock who ,as the saying goes, sold us down the road to our enemies for th tie own benefit. I have nothing else to say except the Lord’s Prayer and asking God to save us all. . Mike Lapsley USN and retired DC policeman
Fox stands tall among mediocre stations like NBC,ABC and CBS For all the news and as accurate as you’ll find, that is why I stick with, others mentioned make me sick.
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO FRANCES FOX PIVEN A LIFE LONG COMMUNIST SAID ON C-SPAN THAT UNDER THE RADAR OBAMA HAS PLANTED GOOD PEOPLE. THEY ARE STILL THERE FOLKS.
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