Posted on 06/09/2023 4:00:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been resistant to the idea of banning TikTok despite clear evidence that the company is run for the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party which is allowed to spy on its users.
But she’s threatening Twitter with the FTC unless the company brings back the censorship.
Recent key departures from Twitter could land the platform in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission if it can’t comply with an earlier agreement, Democratic senators warned company leaders Friday.
After news broke last week that both Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, and head of brand safety and advertising quality, A.J. Brown, had departed, four senators wrote in a letter to Twitter owner Elon Musk and new CEO Linda Yaccarino that they were concerned about Twitter’s ability to meet its legal obligations.
Brown and Irwin left over material questioning the transgender movement being allowed on Twitter.
Everyone knows why they left, but Democrats are pretending that this is about “user privacy”, not a push for political censorship.
In the letter, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, expressed concern about Twitter’s ability to comply with its earlier commitments in light of the recent departures.
If this were about privacy, Warren and the gang would be pointing to specific violations. And if Twitter has user privacy issues, they would have existed under Irwin and Brown. This isn’t about Irwin and Brown, it’s about Twitter hosting political content that Warren and Co. disagree with, which they’re trying to deal with by threatening government action to enforce political censorship. This is a walking, talking First Amendment violation but so has the entire censorship movement unleashed by the fight against “disinformation”.
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Daily I feel like we’re in some dystopian hologram.
Our color revolution was over by 2017.
They’re just mopping up now.
they are just like the Leninists after the October Revolution; sure they believe in elections so they had an election for the Duma and the Bolsheviks got all of 15 percent of the vote, despite their voter intimidation. Lenin acted like Biden, he just cancelled the vote and never held another one. The difference between Lenin and Biden is that as evil as Lenin was, he was honest and never took a dime as opposed to the Bribed Grand Thief in the White House.
Let’s have Twitter censor her lies and see if that -itch Warren wants Twitter to be able to censor.
Hang. Them. All.
Only way to deal with them is to sue the Senators for violation of Rights. Win or lose it must be done.
This is about the election of 2024.
Time for the left to shut down all opposition.
Don’t use Twatter, don’t listen to anything anyone in your government says, vote according to your own rules, you don’t need outside opinion
Dems are working very hard to get rid of the 1st Amendment. (and the 2nd Amendment too but we already knew that).
So they didn’t really mean freedom of speech when they wrote it?
I’d tell Warren to pound sand.
I would probably use a different phrase though.
Can we censor Lizzie Warren? I mean, if she feels people ought to be censored then I think she should be censored. She offends me for a lying POS that owes the Native Peoples an apology.
Elon will cave, I suspect. He’s already caved a lot and he’s also a NeverTrumper.
That’s one of the reasons he lets Tucker on, he’s a NeverTrumper too. Elon has already been begging in Tweet responses on Tucker’s Shows for Don Lemon and Rachel Maddow to begin shows on Twitter to balance Tucker’s “Independent” slant.
Musk should just say OK deal, then BAN every demonrat Politician from twitter for spreading Misinformation
Pound. Sand.
Elon does what is best for his businesses.
Musk should flip them the bird.
I thought Twitter's "legal obligations" were determined by the First Amendment.
Right, and someone set the dial to batshit crazy.
The dark tyranny continues to get deeper & darker...
There is no end in sight...
Except for the advice that the Founders included in the paragraphs of the founding document...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
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"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
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