“Censorship of official state media”? Where does that come from? Censorship has traditionally been the government stopping the private sector from speaking or publishing.
And Twitter, like Facebook, Google, etc., is a Deep State fraud that should be exposed and ended.
Easy - the courts said that Trump could NOT block people on his Twitter account because, as a public official. His twitter account amounts to official public statements and people have a right to respond to him directly.
Ergo - it’s an official state account.
>>Censorship has traditionally been the government stopping the private sector from speaking or publishing.
All networks used to have their own censor (standards and practices).
Comic books used to “have” carry a Comics Code Authority self-regulated censor board seal to get newsstand distribution (only Dell/Western/GoldKey bucked that) following Kefauver’s Senate hearings in the 1950s.
The government doesn’t have to be involved for censors to be genuine.
“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”
“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”
“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff