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Taibbi: Newest Twitter Files Shows Twitter ‘Immediately’ Took Down Accounts FBI Requested Without Investigation Based on False Charges
Breitbart ^ | 7/12/23 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 07/12/2023 6:35:22 AM PDT by CFW

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi discussed the newest Twitter Files and pointed to one email exchange where Twitter “immediately” suspended accounts flagged by the FBI without investigation on Twitter’s part that Twitter later couldn’t point to solid proof to back the FBI’s allegations.

Taibbi said, “In one shot, you can see the FBI asks to remove three accounts, that gets forwarded to Twitter, Twitter immediately suspends them, the accounts. But more importantly, when there’s a glitch, and the accounts remain up, the FBI immediately writes back and says, what’s the deal? We just wrote to you, why is it still up? So, that shows the nature of the relationship basically that it’s not really a collaboration. It’s much more like somebody reporting to an authority.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; despotism; fbisedition; firstamendment; freespeech; government; socialmedia; technofascism; twitter; twitterfiles
Judge Doughty realized what the government was doing with social media companies. The Biden administration officials and their media megaphones are trying to excuse their actions, but as evidenced by instances such as in this article, the actions of Biden officials is definitely the most egregious violation of First Amendment rights in the history of our nation.
1 posted on 07/12/2023 6:35:22 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

As we suspected all along.............................


2 posted on 07/12/2023 6:37:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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One thing that people likely don’t realize is that most of the Leftist in tech don’t really know how to identify the ‘dangerous’ conservatives, the ones who might do things like prevent World War 3, or warn people about vaccines. So those companies would be shooting in the dark if left alone to deal with our side.

That’s where our taxpayer-funded FBI comes to the rescue as they have PLENTY OF BUDGET for hunting out us Right Wing Extremists (particularly the ones wanting fair elections and against WW3), and hence this is what we get...


3 posted on 07/12/2023 6:54:18 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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Why shouldn’t Russian propaganda have a free airing in American social media?? Taibbi is right, Putin’s lies should be in my Aunt’s twitter feed!


4 posted on 07/12/2023 6:54:33 AM PDT by babble-on
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5 posted on 07/12/2023 6:59:50 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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--- "...the actions of Biden officials is definitely the most egregious violation of First Amendment rights in the history of our nation."

Indeed, among the most egregious, because corruption, once begun, will defend itself with as much force as it needs. Open and transparent governance is a threat to the corrupt.

6 posted on 07/12/2023 7:04:50 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: CFW

Now what?


7 posted on 07/12/2023 7:37:23 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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The fbi is an arm of the government. Neither one has the right to do this, and twitter didn’t either.

For this, the appropriate and fitting penalty is 30 consecutive life terms in federal prison, applied to the topmost executive of each of them.


8 posted on 07/12/2023 7:46:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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From the article: “In this case, they later determined that they couldn’t find anything connecting them (these 3 accounts) to any bad actors.”

The issue isn’t one of Putin’s propaganda showing up in your Aunt’s FB feed - it is whether the US Government has the right to shut down ANY speech by proxy through social media companies. This FedGov team said “jump”, and FB (now) & Twitter (before) said “how high?”. It’s a 1st Amendment issue, and one of advancing FedGov’s narrative, while suppressing other perspectives.

In other words, Government censorship.


9 posted on 07/12/2023 8:37:50 AM PDT by Be Free (When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.)
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bttt


10 posted on 07/12/2023 8:38:30 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America)
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“This FedGov team said “jump”, and FB (now) & Twitter (before) said “how high?”.”


And soon social media sites started jumping even before being directed to by the FBI. Also, with censorship teams on both sides coordinating to delete and ban anything that goes against the government narrative, it’s a given that they are also promoting fake information that benefits the government’s point of few.

That’s why you have what we call “trolls” posting comments at sites still insisting the Russia/Trump collusion story is true. Or saying such things as “Hunter Biden is not an elected official so what he does has no bearing on anything”, and other such nonsense. I suspect those are government-paid actors with scripts provided by the FBI and other government agencies. For even after being corrected on facts, the next day they are posting the same exact comments.

The mantra that red states have more crime than blue states is another such issue on which they will ignore proven facts showing those crimes all come from democrat-controlled cities. The trolls post the talking points as if copied straight from the DNC. I believe that many are paid with our tax dollars and I wish some investigative reporter would follow the trails that would lead to the persons or agencies who are paying those trolls. All “Disinformation” is not coming from foreign actors as the government insists as an excuse which requires them to monitor social media. Much of the disinformation are those that are “calls coming from inside the house”.

/rant


11 posted on 07/12/2023 11:50:39 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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“For this, the appropriate and fitting penalty is 30 consecutive life terms in federal prison, applied to the topmost executive of each of them.”

What have you got against 30 consecutive rounds of 5.56 applied to the topmost executive of each of them??


12 posted on 07/12/2023 3:41:41 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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THEY’RE STILL doing it. Knee-jerk, too.

I’ve been DOA on Twitter — that great bastion of Free Speech — since May 12th.

How’d it happen, ya ask?? Here’s my last entry, posted just after Musk appointed that WEF chick to be CEO:

“Gab is out there, but ya gotta be Johnny-on-the-spot with your personal ban hammer. LOTTA supremacists, Jew haters, skinhead types — some for real, some bots, probably a lotta government spooks. Use that “Block” function mightily and it clears things up pretty well.”

NOBODY has been able to describe what Twitter Rule that post violates or how, but — despite that — no “free speech” for me.

AND — JUST TO BE CERTAIN of my facts...
...before I posted that, I went to my Gab account and spent 10-15 minutes scrolling the main Feed, which - as I describe — was peppered with tripe from an assortment of Nazi stooges still pining for The Reich and blaming everything on da Joooos.


13 posted on 07/12/2023 3:58:04 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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Chris Wray is a liar.


14 posted on 07/13/2023 4:18:59 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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