When Government Uses The Private Sector As Agents Of Censorship ..I & I Editorial Board

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When Government Uses The Private Sector As Agents Of Censorship
I & I Editorial Board
January 5, 2022

Over the weekend, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got the Donald Trump treatment from Twitter: The social media platform permanently banned her personal account. If this were simply a private group deciding who can and can’t participate in its forums, then there’s no problem. That would be Twitter’s right. But we know Democrats are using private companies to censor speech they don’t like, and any discussion that threatens their plans to accumulate ever more political power. This is not America, more like Amerika.

Twitter booted Greene due to her “repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” which is another way to say she’s tweeting messages contrary to the narrative constructed by the Faucists: There is no solution to the pandemic outside of vaccines, lockdowns, and masks.

Twitter, which regularly sends users to “Twitter jail” when their tweets challenge and offend left-wing orthodoxy, permanently banned Trump a year ago “​​due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” It has also permanently suspended a Newsmax reporter “for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” which means his tweets didn’t meet the Twitter mob’s demand for conformity. Dr. Robert Malone, an mRNA vaccine researcher, has also been suspended from Twitter. The official word is he disobeyed the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy – he said something the Twitter hall monitors didn’t like.

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[Kamaji]

It's a variant of corporativism, and it was the signature method the fascists - both the German Nazis and the Italian Fascisti - used to control the population.

It's what non-communist socialists/leftists do.

[Free Vulcan]

If the Right would just withdraw their participation in Twitter, and those penalized file numerous lawsuits, three things would happen.

* Twitter's traffic would plummet, as would their revenue.

* It would become an echo chamber of the Left, which would also reduce traffic as their would be nothing for the Leftist sock puppet posters to do.

* The remaining woke contingent would need an enemy, and would begin attacking moderates, independents, and everyone else on Twitter who are not that interested in politics, especially businesses, reducing their revenue even further (and probably creating more right-wingers).

Turn Twitter into the Daily Kos, a fringe Left site with a fraction of it's former followers.

And if lucky in the courts, possibly make Twitter a 'message carrier' that can't just arbitrarily discriminate and censor anyone not towing the Democrat party line.

[mountaineer]

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis

Honest question: how much is @Twitter getting paid by @pfizer to run this editorial claiming the Pfizer CEO’s quotes were taken out of context here? Remember they took down the initial video for a “copyright” claim too. This is in the trending tab.


Importantly, who @Twitter is writing these statements underneath their trending topics? This is a paid advertisement masquerading as news. And it’s the definition of why Twitter is a publisher and not a platform. They choose which news to feature & editorialize.

The Chairman of @Reuters sits on the board of @pfizer and @Twitter is using Reuters to artificially fact check the Pfizer CEO’s own statements? I mean, this is embarrassing and outrageous propaganda. ...
https:// twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1482033268878823424