Alabama AG Steve Marshall wants to hear from people blocked by social media

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

https://www.al.com/news/2021/08/alabama-ag-steve-marshall-wants-to-hear-from-people-blocked-by-social-media.html

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has launched an initiative aimed at what he calls the “growing menace” of censorship by social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, echoing former President Donald Trump’s complaints about alleged bias.

Marshall has teamed up with Louisiana AG Jeff Landry to gather complaints from social media users about suspensions, content blocking, and other restrictions they have encountered.

“Big Tech is not the Ministry of Truth,” Marshall said in a press release. “It should concern us all when platforms that hold such tremendous power and influence over information wield that power in contradiction of — and with undisguised disdain for — the foundational American principles of free speech and freedom of the press.”

It’s the same message Trump has declared in his longstanding battles with Twitter and Facebook. In 2019, Trump’s White House set up its own complaint tool for people to report what they considered incidents of “tech bias.”

This year, Facebook suspended Trump for two years after he praised participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, calling them “great patriots.” Twitter permanently suspended Trump’s account, which had 88 million followers, saying his tweets about the rioters were likely to incite more violence.

In July, Trump filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Google, and Twitter, claiming he was wrongly censored by the companies. /snip

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The shit still is getting deeper.