A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR HAS MADE A DECISION TO LEAVE TWITTER
OVER ANTI-SEMITIC REMARKS AND THREATS THAT WERE SENT TO
HIM AND HIS WRITERS.
THIS IS EDITOR JOHN WISEMAN, HE IS ACTUALLY THE NEW YORK TIMES
DEPUTY WASHINGTON EDITOR, AND HE CITED TWO TWEETS ON TWITTER THAT
SAID ñ WISEMAN CITED TWO TWEETS THAT TWITTER SAID IT DIDN'T
BREAK THE RULES.
ONE CALLED HIM THE WORD THAT PEOPLE USE ñ
JUST SAY IT.
KIKE.
THE OTHER TOLD HIM HE BELONGED IN AN OVEN.
THOSE WERE THE TWO ANTI-SEMITIC THINGS THAT WERE THROWN AT
HIM ON TWITTER.
SO HE SAYS, "I WILL BE MOVING TO FACEBOOK WHERE AT LEAST
PEOPLE NEED TO USE THEIR REAL NAMES AND CAN'T HIDE BEHIND
FAKERY TO SPREAD THEIR HATE."
I'M GOING TO READ YOU ANOTHER STATEMENT HE MADE THAT WE
ARE AGAINST, BUT BEFORE THAT LETS COMMENT ON THIS.
FACEBOOK DOESN'T ALLOW ANONYMITY.
IT'S REALLY HARD TO USE A FAKE NAME, I DON'T EVEN KNOW
WHAT THEIR SYSTEM OF CONFIRMING FAKE NAMES IS, BUT YOU NEED
TO HAVE A FIRST AND LAST NAME.
YOU CAN PUT A FAKE PICTURE UP, BUT MOST PEOPLE HAVE A
PHOTO AND MOST PEOPLE USE FACEBOOK TO INTERACT WITH
PEOPLE IN THEIR REAL LIVES.
YOU ARE MUCH LESS LIKELY TO GET ABUSE ON FACEBOOK THEN YOU
ARE ON TWITTER.
ON TWITTER YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF EGGS SENDING YOU CRAZY
STUFF, AND SOMETIMES IT GETS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING.
ALSO, TWITTER'S POLICY ON HARASSMENT IS SO LAME.
YOU CAN REPORT A TWEET FOR HARASSMENT AND THEY WILL BE
LIKE, OH SOMEONE CITED THEIR HOME ADDRESS ñ
YOUR HOME ADDRESS AND SAID THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY TO KILL YOU?
DOESN'T VIOLATE OUR POLICY.
JOHN, IN THIS CASE, GIVES TWO EXCELLENT EXAMPLES, THE WORD
THAT HE CITED IS GROSSLY ANTI-SEMITIC.
HE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT THAT.
THE REFERENCE TO PUTTING PEOPLE IN AN OVEN IS ABOUT AS
ANTI-SEMITIC AS IT GETS, AND IF YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY HIS
NAME WAS IN THE THREE PARENTHESES, THAT IS BECAUSE
NEO-NAZIS ONLINE, TRUMP SUPPORTERS, ARE GOING AROUND
PUTTING PARENTHESES AROUND JEWISH REPORTERS NAMES TO POINT
OUT, OH THIS GUY MIGHT BE BIASED AGAINST TRUNK OR RIGHT-WING
POSITIONS BECAUSE HE'S JEWISH, AND UNSURPRISINGLY
NEO-NAZIS ARE HORRIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC.
WHEN YOU SEE PEOPLE PUTTING THAT BETWEEN YOUR NAME YOU ARE
LIKE, JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS THIS ñ WHAT HAS THIS DEVOLVED INTO?
HIS INITIAL CONCERNS HERE ARE 100% VALID.
TWITTER HAS GOT TO GET BETTER AT RESPONDING TO THIS QUICKER,
AND MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION QUICKER.
YOU CAN'T SAY, SUMMARY WANTS TO PUT YOU IN AN OVEN?
THAT DOESN'T VIOLATE OUR POLICY.
I GET IT, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO HAVE A
SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE.
I GET THAT IT'S ALSO SOMETIMES A BALANCING ACT, BUT THESE
ARE NOT THAT CLOSE TO THE LINE.
THE GENERAL ATMOSPHERE ONLINE WITH THESE NEO-NAZIS HAS
BECOME TOXIC.
SO FAR WE ARE 100% WITH HIM, IF HE HAD JUST LEFT IT THERE.
BUT HE HAD TO PUT ONE MORE COMMENT.
THE OTHER TWEET IS, "I WILL LEAVE TWITTER TO THE RACISTS,
THE ANTI-SEMITES, THE BERNIE BROSE WHO ATTACKED WOMEN
REPORTERS YESTERDAY, MAYBE TWITTER WILL RETHINK THEIR QUOTE
MAYBE I MISSED SOMETHING, I KNOW ABOUT THE PROTESTS ñ
THE PROTESTERS THAT ATTACKED PEOPLE AT A TRUMP RALLY, I WROTE
A VERY STRONGLY WORDED PIECE IN RAW STORY CONDEMNING THAT,
BUT WAS THERE ANY INDICATION THAT THEY WERE BERNIE BROSE?
NOT ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE.
THIS IS WHAT DRIVES ME CRAZY.
HE RUINED HIS WHOLE ARGUMENT BY SAYING, YOU SHOULD ALSO
REGULATE BERNIE BROSE.
BUT NOW YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
YOU WENT FROM A VERY CLEAR LINE TO A SUPER BLURRED LINE
AGAINST ONE OF YOUR OPPONENTS.
HE PUT IN BERNIE SANDERS A ñ SUPPORTERS, FOR THE HUNDRED AND
98TH
TIME, BERNIE SANDERS IS THE MOST LIBERAL SENATOR IN THE COUNTRY.
WE WERE TOLD OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT HE IS TOO LIBERAL.
NOW THEY ARE TELLING US THAT HIS SUPPORTERS ARE TOO SEXIST,
WHICH IS PREPOSTEROUS.
BUT MUCH WORSE THAN THAT IS THEN PRETENDING THAT IT WAS
BERNIE SANDERS SUPPORTERS WHO ATTACKED TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO THAT.
IF YOU WORK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, YOU DON'T GET TO
MAKE STUFF LIKE THAT UP.
BUT NOW THERE IS AN EXTRA LEVEL.
JOHN AND I REPORTED ON THIS YESTERDAY.
THERE IS A PICTURE OF A TRUMP SUPPORTER WHO WAS EGGED.
THAT IS TRUE, SHE WAS EGGED BY SOMEONE WHO HATES TRUMP.
THEY PUT THE PICTURE IN A PLACE WHERE IT APPEARED THAT THEY WERE
REFERENCING HER AS A REPORTER, ATTACKED BY BERNIE SANDERS
SUPPORTERS.
SHE WAS NOT A REPORTER, SHE WAS NOT ATTACKED BY BERNIE
SANDERS SUPPORTERS.
HERE'S JOHN WISEMAN WRITING IT AS IF IT WAS TRUE.
HERE IS A REPORTER IN THE WASHINGTON POST WHO HAS
BEEN AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS FROM DAY ONE.
HERE'S ANOTHER ESTABLISHMENT REPORTER SAYING, BERNIE
SANDERS, BY THE WAY, ALSO THE MOST SUCCESSFUL JEWISH
CANDIDATE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AND HE LOVES HIM AND HIS
SUPPORTERS IN WITH ANTI-SEMITES AND NAZIS.
IT'S SUPER FRUSTRATING.
I JUST HAD AN INTERACTION WITH SOMEONE WHO ASKED ME, DO YOU
REALLY BELIEVE THAT THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED AGAINST BERNIE?
I HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU GUYS, I KNOW SOME OF YOU
THINK WITHOUT A SHADOW OF ADULT ñ
WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT IT WAS RIGGED.
I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS RIGGED OR IF IT WAS INCOMPETENCE.
HERE'S WHAT I DO KNOW, THERE WAS DEFINITELY MEDIA MANIPULATION.
IF YOU HAVE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS WHO ARE ON THE FENCE, I
DON'T KNOW, I WANT TO VOTE FOR BERNIE, BUT I DON'T KNOW,
IF YOU SEE A SMEAR JOB LIKE THAT AND IF YOU DON'T DO REAL
INVESTIGATING, IT HAS AN INFLUENCE ON WHO YOU VOTE FOR.
THAT TYPE OF THING HAPPENED DURING THE SELECTION FOR SURE.
TELLING VOTERS, HILLARY IS ALREADY THE NOMINEE, BEFORE
PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA AND NEW JERSEY AND OTHER STATES HAD
EVEN VOTED IS MANIPULATION.
IT'S LETTING VOTERS KNOW, YOUR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER SO
DON'T EVEN BOTHER.
IT'S DRIVES ME INSANE.
PROVING THAT ANY ELECTION WAS RIGGED IS VERY DIFFICULT.
AND IT HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN.
BUT WHAT WE HAVE PROVED OVER AND OVER AGAIN ON THE YOUNG
TURKS IS THAT THE SOMETIMES SUBTLE, AND SOMETIMES NOT
REMOTELY SUBTLE BIAS OF THE PRESS AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS.
WE PROVE IT WITH VIDEOS AND BY SHOWING YOU ARTICLE AFTER
ARTICLE AND HEADLINE AFTER HAVING HAD ñ HEADLINE.
WE HAVE BEEN PROVING OUR CASE FOR SIX MONTHS.
I WAS ON LARRY KING'S SHOW THE OTHER DAY, I THINK IT'S
GOING TO COME OUT VERY SOON.
@CENKUYGUR,
FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER, I PUT OUT A LOT OF GOOD STUFF.
LARRY KING WAS VERY SKEPTICAL AT FIRST ABOUT CNN'S BIAS, BUT
BY THE END HE WAS MORE OPEN TO IT.
IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING INTERVIEW.
LAST THING ON THIS, THOSE SAME NEO-NAZIS WOULD ALSO PUT
BRACKETS AROUND BERNIE SANDERS NAME.
IT'S REALLY SICK TOO LONG BERNIE SANDERS AND HIS SUPPORTERS
IN WITH NEO-NAZI TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
DON'T DO THAT, THAT'S REALLY GROTESQUE.