criticism of immigration before praising Cook as “courageous” for
banning Alex Jones.
“Apple was the first company to remove Alex
Jones’s hateful anti-government conspiratorial rants from their
platform, and other tech companies, as we know, followed their lead,” he
said.
Cook also suggested it was “a sin” not to ban certain individuals from social media platforms.
However,
as the past few months have vehemently proven, the banning of prominent
conservatives by Big Tech giants has nothing to do with preventing
“hate speech” and everything to do with silencing political opposition.
Journalist Laura Loomer was banned for criticizing the brutal practice of female genital mutilation, while conservative pundit and combat veteran Jesse Kelly was banned for no identifiable reason whatsoever.
Reaction to the award from free speech advocates was not so glowing.
“Republican
politicians are too stupid to address the issue of censorship,” tweeted
journalist Tim Pool. “Activists accuse everyone of being a white
supremacist, even people who aren’t white. They have already banned
people for criticizing politicians under the guise of “hate speech”.
Activists accuse everyone of being a white supremacist, even people who aren’t white.
They have already banned people for criticizing politicians under the guise of “hate speech”
Alejandrina Gonzalez. “My SJW manager would stalk my social media
everyday and then email me commenting about what I said.”
“division?” Would the “resistance” & “persistence” count as
division? Actually, isn’t the current state of @twitter conversation
divisive?” remarked the Free Our Internet campaign.
able to be sued for what it publishes,” said Mark Krikorian.
challenge them as long as they continue deplatforming their enemy,”
observed Patrick Courrielche.
Apple CEO Tim Cook poses smiling arm-in-arm with revelers for
pictures at San Fran Gay Pride just days after he was accidentally outed
as homosexual by a presenter on live TV
- Cook showed up to greet the 5,000 Apple employees who showed up for the event Sunday
- The
CEO, who has never directly addressed his sexual orientation publicly,
posed for pictures in an Apple Pride t-shirt with employees - The move came two days after CNBC’s Squawk on the Street co-host Simon Hobbs outed Cook live on the air
- During a segment about the dearth of openly gay CEOs, he said, ‘Tim Cook is fairly open about the fact he’s gay’
San Francisco’s gay pride parade to cheer on his 5,000 employees who
participated on Sunday”
donned a special Apple Pride t-shirt that featured a rainbow-hued
rendering of their logo:
businesses to refuse service on religious grounds, a measure that
critics said could allow discrimination against gay people and Cook
himself has been outspoken about gay rights but he’s never publicly
addressed his own sexual preference
“I’M PROUD TO BE GAY, AND I CONSIDER BEING GAY AMONG THE GREATEST GIFTS GOD HAD GIVEN ME”