Is Twitter election meddling by censoring the NPC meme?
Paul Joseph Watson
PrisonPlanet.com
October 17, 2018
The New York Times admits that political memes are major “tools of influence” in the run up to the mid-term elections as Twitter dropped the ban hammer on over 1500 accounts associated with the ‘NPC’ meme.
The Old Gray Lady waded into the NPC meme debate last night, publishing an article entitled, What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s New Favorite Insult?
The article goes some way in acknowledging that the meme rings true in that it exposes how the left has become ideologically intolerant and ‘can’t take a joke’.
The NPC meme originated on 4chan but has since spread like wildfire. It portrays leftists as NPCs (non-player characters) who robotically repeat the same glib mantras and talking points while ruthlessly suppressing anyone who dares think outside the box.
“Understanding how these things happen, and how easily joke memes can escape the internet’s seedy underbelly and morph into actual tools of influence, is part of understanding the mechanics of modern politics,” writes the NY Times’ Kevin Roose.
Over the past weekend, Twitter suspended a whopping 1500 accounts associated with the NPC meme for violating Twitter’s rules against “intentionally misleading election-related content,” despite the fact that the accounts were merely amplifying a widely held belief – that leftists do just formulaically repeat the same ad hominem insults and phrases.
Many on the left also complained that the NPC meme “dehumanizes” them, ostensibly as part of a lobbying attempt to have Twitter ban it since the company updated it terms of service to disallow language that “dehumanizes” people based on their political beliefs.
However, the thousands of Twitter accounts that depict Donald Trump as an orange or a cheeto have not been suspended, nor have any of…