You of course remember that after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 there had to be a clampdown on speech to prevent or at least place some hurdles in front of the people planning the next attack. President Trump was kicked off Twitter and Facebook (where the majority of the attack was likely coordinated). Max Boot suggested President Biden should “reinvigorate the FCC” to slow the seditious talk coming from Fox News. Amazon Web Services, which hosted Parler, pulled the plug on the social media alternative after both the Apple Store and Google Play store pulled the app from their storefronts.
Thomas Chatterton Williams notes that a literary agent has lost her job because … she had accounts on Parler and Gab, which “distressed” the powers that be at her literary agency.
This is terrifying https://t.co/HSjrZfJvUf
— Thomas Chatterton Williams ? ? (@thomaschattwill) January 26, 2021
Oh, she fired her! https://t.co/aELUFaIkPW
— Thomas Chatterton Williams ? ? (@thomaschattwill) January 26, 2021
The tweets were deleted, but this needs to be seen and understood. People still say this is a made-up issue. How can accumulated actions like this *not* have an effect on our intellectual and artistic culture? pic.twitter.com/4K22NqO7FA
— Thomas Chatterton Williams ? ? (@thomaschattwill) January 26, 2021
She even apologizes to anyone affected by this (no one) or offended by it (one person as far as we can tell).
Also, why is it just fine to tweet out internal HR matters now?
— Thomas Chatterton Williams ? ? (@thomaschattwill) January 26, 2021
This is how it started. Absolute madness. pic.twitter.com/EtSygY39xG
— Thomas Chatterton Williams ? ? (@thomaschattwill) January 26, 2021
Wow, look at how offensive that post is! “I’m now also posting on Parler. It’s a great platform with no censorship!” Oh, there’s censorship — it’s just from outside Parler.
A random anonymous Twitter account, which calls itself “YA Whispers,” informs Jennifer that one of her agents simply *used* a social media platform and therefore should be terminated—and Jennifer actually goes and fires her then publicly brags about it!
— Thomas Chatterton Williams ? ? (@thomaschattwill) January 26, 2021
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But then people will tell me that if Rupert Murdoch or Josh Hawley mentions "cancel culture" then you shouldn't talk about it. You should just pretend this isn't happening.
— Thomas Chatterton Williams ? ? (@thomaschattwill) January 26, 2021
Was that the most offensive tweet @YAWhispers could find? So she really was fired just for having an account on Parler.
I genuinely thought that was satire when I read it.
I am truly unable to distinguish between over the top satire and reality anymore.
— flipforchips (@flipforchips) January 26, 2021
Hey Thomas, there was an article about this group in 2019, in The New Yorker. Might shed some light on where this started.https://t.co/FmB0TysV1E
— Dr. Ty Sparks, PhDuh (@TySparks8) January 26, 2021
You know, I’m actually happy that we can still have crazy people.
— Tim Wood ?☠️ (@TimOnPoint) January 26, 2021
The second worst thing about being humorless is that you can't tell when you've become a parody of yourself.
— Shany Mor שני מור شني مور (@ShMMor) January 26, 2021
If the restriction not to use these platforms was not in her contract, could she not sue for compensation?
— Kate (@Katesunshine24) January 26, 2021
I would love to see this go to court.
— Chris Koehn (@chriskoehn) January 26, 2021
*Laughs in lawsuit*
— JM (@SomeDude1886) January 26, 2021
Oh dear! Call the janitors to spray everything ***also clutches pearls more tightly***
— Chris Queen (@cqueen44) January 26, 2021
Are you kidding me with this?
— neal crisp (@nealcrisp) January 26, 2021
This is unequivocally messed up.
— Mike ☭ (@TheRedCommie) January 26, 2021
— Chris Baker (@thabeeziest) January 26, 2021
This is what's scary about cancel culture and wokeness. It didn't take the high bar of the constitutional amendment process to repeal free speech. It just takes woke run companies firing and deplatforming enough people to suppress it.
— Max O'Krepki (@MaxOKrepki) January 26, 2021
Censorship they name is neoliberal thought in the US.
— Mr. Jackson (@Mr_Jacksonandon) January 26, 2021
Its a bit like when the former East German Stasi would go after people who at home watched "West-TV" or tuned into West German radio channels.
— Reiner Wilhelms. 雨男 (@rewtoetzi) January 26, 2021
Damn so you can get straight up fired just for having accounts on the wrong social media apps now.
— Jacob Bloom (@JacobBloom31) January 26, 2021
She was using Parler for business purposes and representing herself on Parler as an agent for that literary agency. (See her "accepting queries on Parler.") This was not her personal life.
— Why is tear gas legal? (@Urbancityscaper) January 26, 2021
Thomas, the future they envision is governed by contracts and licenses, not sovereign laws. Your rights, privileges, and entitlements will be determined by the degree of your conformity to approved behavior and speech. Going "off platform" is deviant and is punished accordingly.
— russian peasant, gulag escape artist (@doukhobour) January 26, 2021
Wow … and her replies are … something else. pic.twitter.com/BMJ4bGygUV
— Signs of the Times ??️? (@SignsoftheTime8) January 26, 2021
Wow.
I don't really *use* Parler and Gab. I opened accounts to make sure I'm still getting the info that Twitter is censoring–like the Hunter Biden laptop story.
I thought everyone had to do that to stay properly informed.
— Love & Money (@LoveAndMoney15) January 26, 2021
This is insanity.
— MelkyWay (@_MelkyWay_) January 26, 2021
“We do not condone basic human agency. We’re sorry if freedom offends anyone”
— Cory Roesler (@RationalCory) January 26, 2021
Oh she’s protected her tweets now. This is ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/9nhGUlGW0O
— LoominNaughty ??⚓️??⛳️ (@DigitalChick73) January 27, 2021
And going private tells you just how firmly they believe in what they are doing. They know, in at least some small way, that it’s wrong.
— Garrett Sasse (@GarrettSasse) January 26, 2021
Who’s next? Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal?
— Liberty’s Outlook (@falcontac55) January 26, 2021
Can you imagine if a company FIRED an employee specifically for being on an app associated with liberalism, then posted that employees name publicly with the announcement that they had been fired? The country would be up in arms.
— Quiet Patience (@patience_quiet) January 26, 2021
This has to be grounds for wrongful termination. These companies need to be sued to put an end to these actions.
— ragnheiður (@ragnheioura) January 26, 2021
She’d better be able to pull up some examples of “hate speech” or incitement from those Parler or Gab accounts.
Related:
‘McCarthyite madness’: Glenn Greenwald thread takes on House Dem who asked FBI director to investigate Parler founder https://t.co/j3ZzYDfvr9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 21, 2021
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