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Tensions between Musk, Democrats flare with Trump’s expected return to Twitter
The Hill ^ | 20 Jan 2023 | ALEXANDER BOLTON -

Posted on 01/20/2023 10:27:41 PM PST by blueplum

Tensions between Elon Musk and Senate Democrats are heating up ahead of former President Trump’s expected return to Twitter, which comes amid reports that the popular social media platform has seen a rise in hate speech since Musk’s takeover last year.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is raising concerns about Twitter’s opaque financing and whether foreign interests could gain enough influence over the “digital town square” ahead of the 2024 election to pose a national security threat.

Musk, anticipating more criticism from Democratic lawmakers, on Wednesday predicted the Biden administration “may try to weaponize federal agencies against Twitter.” ...

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexanderbolton; alexanderboltonlol; chat; computers; fauxcahontas; lieawatha; musk; newsforumabuse; trump; twitter; weaponization
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and twitter before Musk????
1 posted on 01/20/2023 10:27:41 PM PST by blueplum
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Are the Twitter-Libs still bellyaching about Trump on Twitter?
Get over it! We deal with your Press Agent Katrina who knows nothing and mispronounces almost everything.


2 posted on 01/20/2023 10:33:59 PM PST by lee martell
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Suck it up, cupcakes. The Sheriff is back in town.

3 posted on 01/20/2023 10:34:26 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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If Liz is worried about furrinners, she can toss a bill in the hopper to help get the US out from under the Refugee Convention.


4 posted on 01/20/2023 10:37:01 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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Don’t worry Liz, I don’t hate you, I only despise you.


5 posted on 01/20/2023 10:38:53 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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I suggest she should use a mirror when looking for a national security threat.


6 posted on 01/20/2023 10:41:24 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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So the Ukrainians can interfere in the 2016 elections and fund the DNC in the 2020 and 2022 elections, now they’re just worried that something might get in the way of their plans to swing 2024 to worthless Dems...


7 posted on 01/20/2023 10:56:48 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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comes amid reports that the popular social media platform has seen a rise in hate speech since Musk’s takeover last year.

Which reports? Whose reports? Some leftist filthbag "news" outfit? Some leftists/RINO/globalist scum NGO or .org?

Definition of hate speech: Speech which questions any part of the vile leftist/globalist/"rainbow" agendas or which criticizes any individual or group who are part of them or who promote them.

8 posted on 01/21/2023 1:17:34 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo
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To: lee martell

Devin Nunes said that Trump has no plans to go back to any social media.

Why would he?

Truth Social is growing.


9 posted on 01/21/2023 1:33:57 AM PST by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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Rise in "hate speech?" I wonder what kind of hate speech.

"There are only two genders"...?
"We should deport people here illegally"...?
"There sure is a lot of violent black on white crime"...?
"Only actual women should be allowed to compete in women's sports..."?
"Did you hear about the Zulocks?"
"The Democrats used mail-in votes to commit voter fraud in 2020"...?
"Hey, I'm beginning to think that Covid vaccine is causing heart attacks in young people"...?

That sort of "hate speech?"

10 posted on 01/21/2023 3:10:49 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is raising concerns about . . . whether foreign interests could gain enough influence over the “digital town square” ahead of the 2024 election to pose a national security threat.
She was happy enough with Twitter when it was channeling the Democratic party line under the tutelage of the FBI . . .

You know, the patriots who had the Hunter Biden laptop for about a year before the 2020 election - but insinuated powerfully that it was “Russian disinformation” when anyone sentient could have known to the contrary after that much time to check it out. But the agency was determined not to know that.

No threat to “our democracy” there . . .


11 posted on 01/21/2023 3:42:37 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (A jury represents society. It presumes the innocence of anyone the government undertakes to punish)
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is raising concerns about . . . whether foreign interests could gain enough influence over the “digital town square” ahead of the 2024 election to pose a national security threat.
She was happy enough with Twitter when it was channeling the Democratic party line under the tutelage of the FBI . . .

You know, the patriots who had the Hunter Biden laptop for about a year before the 2020 election - but insinuated powerfully that it was “Russian disinformation” when anyone sentient could have known to the contrary after that much time to check it out. But the agency was determined not to know that.

No threat to “our democracy” there . . .


12 posted on 01/21/2023 3:42:37 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (A jury represents society. It presumes the innocence of anyone the government undertakes to punish)
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Free speech silencing, loser commies are hate. Not a surprise.


13 posted on 01/21/2023 4:14:07 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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I wonder, who could it be? It's a mystery!


14 posted on 01/21/2023 4:16:44 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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I wonder what kind of hate speech.

Yes, you've go it. That kind. The lefties really hate it.

15 posted on 01/21/2023 4:20:10 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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I wonder what kind of hate speech.

Yes, you've go it. That kind. The lefties really hate it.

16 posted on 01/21/2023 4:20:10 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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“hate speech” = “anything disliked by liberals”


17 posted on 01/21/2023 4:31:23 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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Why do they never complain about Joy Behar’s hate speech?


18 posted on 01/21/2023 4:32:31 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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>>She was happy enough with Twitter when it was channeling the Democratic party line under the tutelage of the FBI . . .<<

Exactly. Remember all the cries of “Twitter is a pdivate company and not subject to govt oversight!” when cinservatives pointed out that our voices were constantly and consistently silenced?

All of a sudden, it is a national resource requiring govt control? I don’t think so.


19 posted on 01/21/2023 4:42:19 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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Hate speech

Def. Any words spoken that offend democrats. IE If you say that 2+2=4, and it offends a Democrat, it’s hate speech.

Special circumstances. It does not matter if what is said is accurate, only that a Democrat can argue that it is somehow racist or sexist, and it is hate speech. Any scientific field theorems are graded against democrats opinions of them, and if they are true, but offend democrats, they become hate categories. Therefore, math is hate, even if 2+2=4 it must also be seen to equal 5 for democrats, otherwise it’s hate science. Conversely, science doesn’t have to be accurate or reproducible, or make accurate predictions, as long as it conforms to democrats view of sex and race….See Climate Science.

Example: Saying that female black skydiver will fall to earth at the same speed as a white male skydiver is hate speech in a hate science (physics) based upon another hate science (math).


20 posted on 01/21/2023 5:26:55 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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