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‘Twitter Files’ Fallout Rains Down On Arizona And Reveals That Katie Hobbs Colluded With The Big Tech And The AZ Government Was Breaking The First Amendment
Defiant America ^ | 12/04/2022 | Kellyanne Richardson

Posted on 12/04/2022 9:55:39 AM PST by DFG

Elon Musk’s release of information detailing how Twitter suppressed speech during the 2020 presidential election is only the beginning of the story, according to one Texas congressman.

“Investigations are coming,” Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas tweeted Friday.

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Earlier Friday, journalist Matt Taibbi released internal Twitter communications that showed Twitter employees took down tweets at the behest of the Biden campaign and the Trump White House. Taibbi noted that because the Twitter staff was overwhelmingly liberal, there were “more channels” to censor speech available to the left.

As Nehls promised an investigation, others noted that the liberal media was ignoring the release of the “Twitter Files.”

But a new bombshell was revealed from the “Twitter Files.” Email leaks reveal Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was in regular communication with Twitter telling them who to censor. Look:

(Excerpt) Read more at defiantamerica.com ...


TOPICS: US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; bigtech; byanymeansnecessary; censorship; chesspieceinposition; cisa; fbi; governorofsoros; hobbs; jamesbaker; jamesbakergate; karilake; katiehobbs; kellyannerichardson; musk; sorosgovernor; twitter; twitterfiles
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To: kiryandil

A stern letter...

I choose “F” for the stern letter. As in, “F”!


21 posted on 12/04/2022 10:28:37 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

True as an abstract value, but the legally enforceable part is only in cases of government interference. The corporate part is not yet fully defined in its scope by the courts. Legal cases still pending.


22 posted on 12/04/2022 10:29:36 AM PST by nwrep
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To: rktman

Sadly, AG Merrick won’t do anything.


23 posted on 12/04/2022 10:31:12 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: DFG
One thing that I am really getting tired of seeing, is everything being redacted. For it leaves room for the people involved to deny it was them who were engaged in these crimes.

Why are people not immediately being picked and charged?

24 posted on 12/04/2022 10:31:36 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: drSteve78
"F" is a pretty stern letter. :)
25 posted on 12/04/2022 10:34:33 AM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: AndyJackson

sued and tried

18 usc 242

https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law#:~:text=Section%20242%20of%20Title%2018,laws%20of%20the%20United%20States.

TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.


26 posted on 12/04/2022 10:51:04 AM PST by rolling_stone (cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war )
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To: DFG

ok- now what?


27 posted on 12/04/2022 10:51:20 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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To: DFG; All
This is more troubling if it accurately reflects what happened. Obviously Twitter needs different standards that it employed before.

It’s one thing for Joe or Trump’s campaigns to request review but given the bias of Twitter employees given their personal preferences it’s problematic for an entity that claims to be the internet public square to collude with campaigns.

Without knowing what tweets were deleted or censored, it’s hard to know whether or how often they crossed the line and acted as a defacto agent of a particular campaign, party, or government entity.

If Hobbs office ONLY objected to deliberate misinformation about when or how voters could exercise their rights there’s no issue with asking Twitter to review tweets.

28 posted on 12/04/2022 10:58:25 AM PST by newzjunkey (Vote for Hershel Walker by Dec 6th to stop Warnock (D) in Georgia)
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To: newzjunkey

Sos should be limited to one term if just for this reason alone. State attny general too...


29 posted on 12/04/2022 10:58:44 AM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they use it)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

P


30 posted on 12/04/2022 10:59:20 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: newzjunkey

I think in this case Hobbs should have recused herself simply because she was running for governor, not reelection for the SoS job. Perhaps the current governor should have directed a deputy SoS to oversee the election process.


31 posted on 12/04/2022 11:00:50 AM PST by Afterguard
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To: DFG

Lord, PLEASE remove the crooks from office and install the rightful winners.


32 posted on 12/04/2022 11:02:16 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: FarCenter

The internet is forever.


33 posted on 12/04/2022 11:04:39 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: newzjunkey

Kari was calling for her to continue her duties but step aside from the election process


34 posted on 12/04/2022 11:06:10 AM PST by roving ( Pronouns- libs/suk)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Twitter violated its terms of use and passed for an open forum, which it was not not…. should have been called democrat Communist Underground


35 posted on 12/04/2022 11:08:58 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: newzjunkey
Are you suggesting they need to recuse themselves in the year they stand for re-election

It's not a 'suggestion'. It's the law that must be complied with in order to have a LAWFUL election. So yes, she had to suspend her election duties in 2022, and if she is permitted to ever hold office again, she has to follow the law.

36 posted on 12/04/2022 11:09:17 AM PST by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: euram

The thing about Kevin McCarthy being speaker is that he will run interference and prevent these investigations from happening.


37 posted on 12/04/2022 11:12:21 AM PST by Revel
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lock her up


38 posted on 12/04/2022 11:15:23 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: DFG

Just another fine public/private partnership to benefit the fine citizens of Arizona.

/s (in case someone reads that straight)


39 posted on 12/04/2022 11:18:26 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: DFG

Stepping back for a minute from all the details, doesn’t it seem as though Musk has everyone right where he wants them?

If the Dems make a big case of it and say it was fine to tilt Twitter the way they did, and they get some kind of approval somewhere, by the legislative or the judicial branch, then Musk can do whatever he wants also and make Twitter biased in HIS favorite direction if he wants to.

If it goes the other way and free speech prevails, that is what Musk is all about in the first place. That is why he’s doing this, not to tilt things the opposite way.

Win win.

And people wonder why he’s the richest person in the world.


40 posted on 12/04/2022 11:21:57 AM PST by firebrand
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