Posted on 01/23/2023 5:28:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Censorship-hungry Twitter employees vented to the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 that their company wasn’t authoritarian enough when it came to curbing former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2021 Capitol riot, a newly released 122-page memo shows. “The Twitter Files,” however, prove Big Tech went out of its way to suppress the Republican president long before his ban from the platform on Jan. 8, 2021.
When the Twitter staff, or “Tweeps,” gave witness testimony to the J6 Committee last year, they likely didn’t anticipate a fact-check of their public statements against their internal communications. Then Elon Musk acquired the company in October of 2022 and released internal documents exposing Twitter’s key censorship decisions and election meddling.
Some of the material in the revelations dubbed “The Twitter Files” corroborates what these ex-staffers told the J6 Committee about Twitter’s hesitation to ban Trump until Jan. 8. Many of the uncovered documents and communications, however, prove that long before the riot, Twitter treated Trump differently than it did most world leaders.
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So they amended the corporate rules for one user, then banned him based on it.
Since there’s no Title II protection against discrimination against orange people, it’s unethical but not illegal.
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The problem is that while Twitter can have it’s own policies on banning speech, once they start working with the government it becomes entangled with state action. Twitter, Facebook and other social media companies taking marching orders from the Biden administration and Democrat government officials should be sued for violation of constitutional rights under the state action doctrine.
Hodgetwins
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They’re trying to give the non-violent guy who put his feet on Pelosi’s desk on J6 life in prison, but they dropped the charges against Antifa/BLM when they wrecked DC
Somebody has to step up and fix this. We aren’t living in a serious country, our justice system is corrupt !!
10:39 PM · Jan 23, 2023
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