re: Twitter bans Unplanned, abortion movie.

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Twitter bans Unplanned, abortion movie.
Twitter took down the account for Unplanned and later did reinstate it

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I wonder if removal was by algorithm, or by human action. My suspicion is twitter algorithms are triggered after a threshold view # if the ratio of complaints vs views is disproportionately high. However, if that is the model, twitter should also have mechanisms to dissuade activists from manipulating the platform.

Meanwhile, production costs for "Unplanned" are estimated at $6 million. Box office has recouped only half of that. This is a made-for-streaming services movie, but it has underperformed in theaters.

The wide and I saw it yesterday. Powerful film. Frick Planned Parenthood. And Frick the MPAA for slapping an R rating on this.

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The odds of that boy being destitute are massively greater than him being successful given his start in life. Sure there is a very small chance he will beat the odds and become a contributor to society but is that fair to the vast majority of boys who will not beat the odds? Thats akin to making 1,000 children walk across the Sahara Desert with only 3 of them surviving to the other side. Are those 1,000 kids suppose to be grateful for the opportunity no matter how small the chance of success?

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Are you by chance related to this woman?

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Ever thought that maybe you should’ve been aborted? You and the likes of ebbandblow and any other pro abortion liberal. You know, to be examples and all of abortion and the “good” it provides.........

You low life, scum of the earth, piles of shite.

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I'm not a liberal nor am I pro abortion.

This "you should have been aborted" comeback has been used to death on this board and is about as unoriginal as it gets.

But I understand that you need to make this unoriginal backhanded remark in order to appease yourself. You had no other choice.

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Twitter took down the account for Unplanned and later did reinstate it,

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i would bet my house they still shadow ban it, they are scared of how bad it exposes their lies and will not allow this movie to be seen if they can help it.

I stand corrected. A comparison of Unplanned to films of great artistic merit and universal acclaim is overblown. I also believe the comparisons you quote are more limited in their scope than a one on one fight for an Oscar.

My reading of the Abby Johnson quote is that, shrugging off the decision to rate Unplanned with an R, she compares the R ratings of each film and Unplanned's potential impact with Passion's, not technically comparing their relative artistic merits or overall quality. That may be a difference without a distinction and she's sailing close to the wind.

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From Abby Johnson “We are pushing the boundaries of what has never been before on such a wide scale by showing America exactly what abortion is — and abortion is disturbing. It’s violent,” the 38-year-old said.

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This is absolutely true in one sense, but in another she's wrong not giving any props or recognition to Gosnell.

Schilling is clearly making comparisons to blockbusters but seems to restrict his enthusiasm to the film's "emotional wallop". A small point, but not holding up Unplanned against Schindler as Oscar worthy.

Your comments are far more interesting than your quotes however.

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This film is below the production level of a bad CW series. A quick Google search shows the entire film is as "true story" as any other Hollywood film, which is to say it's exaggerated and full of shite.

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A person familiar through viewing Unplanned and CW series can legitimately make that claim. I'm assuming then that you have seen Unplanned to make your comment.

Given that this film has been blackballed in the network media advertising arena and given Google's propensity to censor things they believe are hateful and bad, are you seriously going to Google your way to your opinion of this film without seeing it? Seriously.

Respecting "true story", "exaggerated", and "full of shite", plenty of films take artistic license to either edit down a topic for time and clarity or, amalgamate related, relevant, incidents to create a simplified narrative to fit a film's limited time of roughly two hours.

The physician in the film performing the controversial scene is a physician with some thousand or so abortions under his belt. He has assured us in interviews that the film in no way exaggerates.

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The doctor in the scene is real-life Dr. Anthony Levatino, who says he has performed about 1,200 abortions over the years. "The portrayal of a live, moving fetus disappearing is very accurate," Levatino said. "You're watching an abortion. It's an accurate view of what's happening. It's disturbing if you recognize it's a human life."

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Just go see the film and make up your own mind and don't rely on The Daily Beast to tell you a film's good or bad. They have a pro-abortion bias. Free your mind and your arse will follow.