Posted on 01/10/2021 12:09:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Alexey Navalny, a Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, warned that dictators will use Twitter’s decision to permanently ban President Donald Trump from its platform as a pretext to silence their political opponents.
Navalny would know. When the Russian government prosecuted him for embezzlement, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the cases violated Navalny’s right to a fair trial, but Russia prevented him from running for president of Russia in 2018 due to these convictions, anyway. Navalny claims his name cannot be mentioned on Russian television. Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to refer to Navalny by name and The Wall Street Journal has described Navalny as “the man Vladimir Putin fears most.”
Navalny called Twitter’s moves against Trump “an unacceptable act of censorship.” He admitted that “Trump has been writing and saying very irresponsible things,” and he argued that the president got “paid for it by not getting re-elected.”
“The election is a straightforward and competitive process. You can participate in it, you can appeal against the results, they’re being monitored by millions of people. The ban on Twitter is a decision of people we don’t know in accordance with a procedure we don’t know,” Navalny explained. “In my opinion, the decision to ban Trump was based on emotions and personal political preferences.”
The Russian politician insisted that Twitter did not really ban Trump for violating the rules. “I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone (not that I ask for it). Among the people who have Twitter accounts are cold-blooded murderers (Putin or Maduro) and liars and thieves (Medvedev). For many years, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have been used as a base for Putin’s ‘troll factory’ and similar groups from other authoritarian countries,” he explained.
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Then the Russian dissident got to the heart of the matter.
“If you replace ‘Trump’ with ‘Navalny’ in today’s discussion, you will get an 80% accurate Kremlin’s answer as to why my name can’t be mentioned on Russian TV and I shouldn’t be allowed to participate in any elections,” Navalny argued.
“This precedent will be exploited by the enemies of freedom of speech around the world,” he warned. “In Russia as well.”
Yep.
It doesn’t matter, they don’t really care about Russia until it’s something to defer complaints.
They already are. Here in the U.S.
They are not even in power yet, and they are dictators. Wait until they have full control of the government.
1. Putin is not our friend. He is a Communist with an image team and a makeover.
2. Biden plans to sell out America’s nuclear power to Russia late this year in some really bad treaties.
3. The election playbook they ran for a from the Putin playbook
After the stupidity at the Capital, I half expect we will see a new “Patriot Act” that will give the DOJ extrajudicial authority to squelch “seditious” speech, giving them direct authority over network providers, domain name services, ISP’s and other infrastructure services. They will silence the nutcases, and legitimate free speech will die along with them.
It is the behavior of those who are running a coup and want to stifle public communication to prevent an informed and effective response, purge opposition and intimidate the public from resisting
The tyrannical and vindictive acts by the Democrats before they even assume power demonstrate that they are an illegitimate government that will abuse their power and cannot be trusted to govern.
Can't imagine why they pursuing this course of action at this time.
It's astounding and profoundly troubling to see how quickly they are dropping the mask and letting us see them for what they are
Bookmark.
They’ll also use it to justify nationalizing both Twitter and Facebook: They can’t risk having the executives of US tech companies deplatforming their country’s leadership.
1. Putin is not a Communist anymore (if he ever was one-some of the people in the old USSR no doubt didn’t really believe in Marxism-Leninism, they just faked it for power and privilege) However, you ARE right in saying that he’s not our friend, and he’s still very much a despot and statist.
2. It wouldn’t surprise me.
3.Again, it wouldn’t surprise me.
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