As Twitchy reported earlier, Google took down the Buffalo mass shooter’s manifesto — yes, AP, it was a manifesto — because it violated their policies on hate speech. That’s actually too bad, because we were learning a lot about the shooter and his motivations. He claimed to have been a communist just a couple of years earlier, and despite everyone from Joe Lockhart to Chuck Schumer blaming Fox News and Tucker Carlson for the shooting, he mentioned in his manifesto exactly what sources radicalized him — not Fox News (too Jewish), not Tucker Carlson (never mentioned), not Facebook, and not Twitter … it was initially Reddit forums and then websites like the Daily Stormer.
Former New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio is leading the charge to “reign in the spread of hate” on Facebook and Twitter that had nothing to do with the shooting in Buffalo.
Americans are dying because companies like @Facebook @Twitch & @Twitter refuse to stop profiting off hate. They give murderers like the one in Buffalo a platform to weaponize racist ideology. It is past time for Congress to pass a #DigitalServicesAct & reign in the spread of hate https://t.co/qZf9IHJISy
— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) May 17, 2022
This has nothing to do with Buffalo and everything to do with censoring voices you don't agree with.
— Oldskool Raver (@RaverOldskool) May 17, 2022
Yes the government controlling the spread of information. Because that always ends well and doesn’t lead to the government to massively abuse that power to quiet dissent and spread propaganda
— Facetious Libertarian (@libertarianwin) May 17, 2022
Doesn’t take a New York minute before the communists come out of the woodwork to control your speech.
— KarenG 🇺🇸 (@KgiardenKaren) May 17, 2022
Show me the 'hate' exception clause in the First Amendment. Then tell me who decides, because there is very little anyone, anywhere, can say that someone, somewhere, is not going to 'hate'.
— Neon_Grammarian01 (@NeonGrammarian1) May 17, 2022
New York cops knew about this guy sorry try harder
— The Breeze (@pgavigan77) May 17, 2022
Actually it’s soft on crime politicians like YOU that’s the problem.
— J M Nihoff (@NihoffJM) May 17, 2022
You mean like @Twitter allowing your gorl @LoriLightfoot to tweet this very dangerous tweet? pic.twitter.com/qHgwOlOrA9
— SyraKellie (@SyraKellie) May 17, 2022
Jesus dude. Read the room. You will never be relevant again and your opinion is meaningless. You had a chance to fix NYC and you demolished it during your reign of ineptitude and terror. Delete your account and leave the state.
— Vacant_NYC_Storefronts (@LeVeauNY) May 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/frankie_m3rmaid/status/1526356578449903616
Funny how politicians immediately jump to the conclusion that we need more gun control and less free speech.
Related:
Tom Elliott takes closer look at Buffalo killer’s manifesto and finds some problematic details that throw big wrenches in Left’s desired narrative https://t.co/PlEAnyDvkp
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 16, 2022
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