Posted on 02/07/2020 8:03:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Twitter locked the account of investigative journalist James O’Keefe last month after he and Project Veritas released undercover footage showing Bernie Sanders staffers praising Stalin’s gulags and promising that “cities will burn” if Donald Trump is re-elected. According to Project Veritas, “Twitter’s end game is likely similar to that of their Silicon Valley friend Google; in the words of Google’s Head of Innovation Jen Gennai ‘Prevent the next Trump situation.’”
Twitter claims it locked O’Keefe’s account because of “privacy violations,” after O’Keefe posted a publicly available FEC paystub of one of the Sanders’ staffers who praised violence and gulags.
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe blasted Twitter for suggesting his tweet violated anyone’s privacy.
“At Project Veritas we respect the rights of privacy,” said O’Keefe in a statement to Breitbart News. “Professional codes of ethics instruct journalists to minimize harm to the public, requiring an “overriding” public interest to invade someone’s privacy.”
“In the case of our recent Twitter suspension, Twitter said we had violated their rules for ‘posting private information.’ But the information we published was a screen shot from a U.S Government website, certainly not private. But even if it was private, the information did meet the threshold of ‘overriding’ public interest.”
Bernie 2020 Staffer Kyle Jurek was recorded by Project Veritas saying things such as:
“Fucking cities will burn if Trump is re-elected.”
“There’s a reason Joseph Stalin had Gulags, right? And actually, Gulags are a lot better than what the CIA has told us they were…”
“The cops are gonna be the ones that are getting f*cking beaten in Milwaukee. They’re gonna call up the National Guard for that sh*t. I promise you that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Google and Twitter are Orwellian, and completely out of control.
They both need to be broken up into many decentralized, competing entities.
What is THAT supposed to mean?!
It means “We suspended you because shut up.”
Who is making these people insane?
” O’Keefe blasted Twitter.”
Just go to Gab. I wish President Trump would go to Gab. Facebook and Twitter will then be useless.
So.. twitter decides Trump is bad and the left...all the left is good..
Cannot criticize anyone on the left..
Can do whatever to the right side of the country.
They are participating in an election.. as sure as if it were Russia.... they have taken sides and controlling speech.
A reminder to those younger than I am.. this did not happen before Clintons... they were the scum that came to Washington from Arkansas, where they did anything they wanted... the mafia down in the south.... brought it to Washington and set a precedent that has been going on since.. and deeper and wider and worse.... and allowed!!!!!!
Is there a way to clean it up? Yes, Trump... and you can see what one goes through to clean that swamp. you can see why no one tried it before .. it was easier to go along... since everyone did it.. But Trump thinks like I do...like millions do... clean it up. But Pres Trump, get them fired yesterday!!!!
The left makes up rules and regulations as they go, to fix what they are doing... the dems have set a new record in lies... and cnn had those LIARS on tv, telling AGAIN what they made up.
Schiff has to be charged and stopped... he is one lying satanic human who is OUT OF CONTROL!!
Never heard of Gab.
Now I did :)
You should post it as a vanity thread. That would get hundreds more to know about it.
And it would actually be a useful vanity thread :)
Lost O’Keefe but we got James Woods back.
Have you heard of President Trump?
However after the election, he’ll have much more flexibility.
lol, I see what you did there.
Agreed.
Still nice to know about it and if word gets spread now it will be a lot bigger by end of election.
He could always tweet to 60 million people to use a new site.
Boy that would make a company filthy rich overnight :
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