Posted on 10/16/2020 12:01:53 PM PDT by knighthawk
EXCLUSIVE: House Minority Whip Steve Scalise and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers lead more than a dozen House Republicans in demanding answers from Twitter for their “unparalleled” and “unprecedented” actions the social media platform took in reducing the circulation of a New York Post article about Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and former Vice President Joe Biden’s alleged knowledge of those dealings.
In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Scalise, R-La., McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and 14 other House Republicans, raised “significant concerns” with Twitter’s actions, saying they show “a clear disregard for the spirit of the First Amendment and our country’s long history of open dialogue among citizens,” calling it “the latest in a troubling pattern of actions taken by Twitter to target conservative viewpoints on its platform.”
“While it has been evidence for some time that Twitter and other social media platforms have acted with clear bias against conservative viewpoints and Republican politicians, these latest actions represent an unacceptable escalation and threaten the future of our Democratic discourse,” they wrote, referencing Dorsey’s testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2018. McMorris Rodgers is the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over tech companies like Twitter. She is also running to lead the full Energy and Commerce Committee in the next Congress.
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A strongly worded letter?
And that is what is now happening. Plenteousness of information is great, as long as it is open and fair. But selectively withholding it and maliciously twisting it is not. And that's been going on for a long time now.
In this case, as the proverb says, "No news is good news."
VERY strongly worded. That makes all the difference.
I was purged a long time ago.
Only a dozen? It should be hundreds! Grrr!
They did this in 2016.
Apple, Twitter, Google, Instagram collude to defeat Trump
http://observer.com/2016/08/tech-companies-apple-twitter-google-and-instagram-collude-to-defeat-trump/
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