Posted on 12/18/2022 9:58:16 AM PST by bitt
Gregg is joined by Carl Szabo, NetChoice Vice President and General Counsel, and a well known free speech advocate.
Holden Caulfield quipped, “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.” But Twitter has him beat by a country mile.
Twitter executives long insisted they never rigged their platform to censor conservatives. It was a lie. Former CEO Jack Dorsey was asked point-blank under oath by Congress if his social media company “shadow-banned prominent Republicans.” “No,” he replied with a straight face. Another lie. He doubled-down when he told Sean Hannity, “We do not shadow-ban according to political ideology or viewpoints.” Not even close to the truth.
In fact, Twitter was operating a giant political censorship machine applied with brute computer force. Tweets involving Democrats were amplified, derogatory information about Joe Biden was suppressed, and anyone who dared to criticize them found themselves diminished or vanished.
Twitter didn’t like the pejorative term “shadow-ban,” so it invented a synonymous in-house phrase. Staffers called it “visibility filtering.” Same thing, different jargon. They even composed a Blacklist. If you were on it, bye-bye.
Now, thanks to the transparency of the company’s new owner, Elon Musk, the so-called Twitter Files have laid bare the cavalcade of lies and devious machinations that we all suspected were happening behind closed doors.
A super-censor team composed of Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde (head of Legal, Policy and Trust), Yoel Roth (global head of Trust and Safety), and Parag Agrawal (also CEO) made many of the key decisions to kill legitimate stories and banish people whose views they didn’t like.
If you offered information or opinion with which the progressive elites at Twitter disagreed or objected, your tweets would magically disappear into a cyber black hole. Your followers would strangely dwindle. Any ideas and thoughts that didn’t conform strictly to Twitter’s woke orthodoxy of ideological purity were censored.
Twitter wasn’t practicing responsible content moderation, as they publicly claimed. No, they were unscrupulously enforcing a system of content oblivion. These are despicable people who have earned our contempt.
Pre-Elon Musk, Twitter contributed mightily to the alarming erosion of free speech in America. Over time, it became a sad monument to narrow-minded intolerance. Imperious executives were morally bankrupt and intellectually corrupt. They robbed people of the chance for speech they might wish to hear or to engage in vigorous public debate. It was antithetical to the principles of free expression. This unbridled power allowed Twitter to punish political adversaries and protect partisan allies. It did so with mendacious impunity and little regard for the public interest.
If you’re having trouble keeping up with the slow drip of the Twitter Files’ release, here is a handy cheat sheet of the ugly details exposed thus far:
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Contempt for truth—truth for its own sake—is the evil must fundamental to the Woke/Democrat Party/Left that is destroying America.
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Oh my. Some “inconvenient truths.”
He continues to block/flag Election Fraud tweets as noted by Tierney's Real News.
https://twitter.com/MaggiePeggy1234/status/1604163749061222400?s=20&t=bFN66uIIwmJ_uHmO4oWeuA&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Democrats lie when telling the truth would be easier.
Liberals are horrible people... so many examples. Jack Dorsey isn’t even the biggest douche bag... He’s a run of the mill lowlife liar.
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