Posted on 01/08/2023 7:48:00 AM PST by upchuck
Back from holiday vacation, I found an interesting email waiting for me in my inbox from Matt Taibbi, the independent journo Elon Musk tasked with reviewing and releasing internal Twitter documents about decisions to censor content and ban users from the platform.
“Paul,” Taibbi wrote, “just found a crazy email on Twitter — did you know Adam Schiff’s staff . . . asked Twitter to have you banned?”
I was gobsmacked. This would explain why Twitter could never give me a reason for suspending my account, even though I had broken none of its rules.
Schiff, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, made his “request” to ban me through his staff in a November 2020 memo to Twitter. Three months later, in early February 2021, I was kicked off the platform.
Why would a congressional leader sworn to protect the Constitution and First Amendment want to muzzle a veteran journalist? Like authoritarians everywhere, Schiff did not like critical reporting. The man who vowed to “protect our Democracy” from Donald Trump wanted to censor a free press.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I was suspended after the 2020 election -- the red-dot poonjab turkey-faced bitch's team (yeah I made it all the way to the Trust and Safety Council) directly told me it was because of posting pics of Goobernor's disobeying their own mask orders.
If Malcolm X were around today he’d say scratch a fascist and you’ll find a Schiffhead
Can you imagine how people Schitt railroaded when he was a federal prosecutor?
Be a shame if one of them made a decision to "square accounts"...
Whether it's powerful members of this administration and the many departments, or Leftist activists judges, you can bet tens of thousands of people are getting railroaded on a weekly basis.
Burning at the stake works for me.
Just like when Dubya’s thugs got immigration patriots banned from a site that will remain nameless
Yep, we remember.
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Isn’t this defamation of character as well? Hey! I’m not a lawyer but it looks as if his character and reputation were damaged.
This would explain why Twitter could never give me a reason for suspending my account, even though I had broken none of its rules.
but the real problem here is and always has been Twitter/social media complied.
Barri Weiss is a hard leftist?
Taibbi is a liberal.
This was given to several reporters scattered across the spectrum (for journalists) which gives it credibility by not being a singular gatekeeper or cabal. They each are finding the same types of things and giving their own summaries of what they find.
BTW, Turley is a liberal too.
Yes, and it is ripe for a 42USC 1983 claim...deprivation of civil rights under color of authority. Govt. Violations of any individual constitutional right is a violation of that individual’s civil rights.
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