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If free speech is a pillar of democracy, then Twitter should be charged with sabotage, because they've taken sledgehammer to it. And every American has the right to be absolutely outraged.
The latest 'Twitter Files' drop on Thursday night revealed that partisan extremists at one of America's most influential social media platforms wrapped a torniquet around the vein of free thought and wrenched it tight.
And to add insult to injury, the whole time, Twitter was lying about it.
Then-CEO Jack Dorsey told Congress that he had no idea why conservatives were moaning about being silenced – a.k.a. 'shadow banned.'
Well, guess what? Conservatives were right.
We learned that in addition to shutting down bombshell reporting, like the New York Post's exclusive on Hunter Biden's laptop, Twitter executives were also suppressing individual Americans who didn't blindly parrot liberal orthodoxy.
The account of Stanford professor, Dr. Jay Battachyara's was muffled for sharing thoughtful criticism of COVID lockdowns.
America's kids were kept out of school and in masks. Businesses were destroyed and churches shuttered, and our dying were kept from seeing family, but Twitter pronounced these ideas verboten.
No wonder famously unprofitable, woke Twitter had trouble making money.
If free speech is a pillar of democracy, then Twitter should be charged with sabotage, because they've taken sledgehammer to it. And every American has the right to be absolutely outraged. (Above) Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
They censored anything that was even remotely interesting.
Battachyara's tweets would have been a good read for millions who were locked inside their homes and apartments for months on end. But instead, he landed on a secret 'blacklist,' according to journalist Bari Weiss, who was given access to internal Twitter documents by Elon Musk.
'A new [Twitter Files] investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics — all in secret, without informing users,' Weiss wrote.
What else did a few liberals in Silicon Valley deem off-limits for the rest of us?
We know they put their thumb on the scale of the 2020 election and censored reporting about Hunter Biden that could have swayed the vote. But did they meddle in any other races?
Apparently, so.
On Friday, Musk was asked on Twitter: 'Were any political candidates – either in the US or elsewhere – subject to shadowbanning, while they were running for office or seeking re-election?'
He replied, 'yes'.
Let's keep an eye on the feeds of Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss for the details. But who the hell do these people think they are?
And let's not ignore how infuriating to most regular people this all is. It is no exaggeration to say that there was more deliberate censorship of conservatives than of dictators on Twitter.
Iran's terror-sponsoring, homophobic, anti-Semitic Ayatollah Khamenei was free to tweet about destroying Israel, while conservative talk show host Dan Bongino got smothered.
Back in 2021, the hashtags #KillTrump and #AssassinateTrump, freely bounced around the platform, but don't you dare question radical gender ideology. That'll get you banned.
The Libs of TikTok Twitter account reportedly came under the sway of the suppressors. Specifically, Chaya Raichik, who runs the handle shed light on children's hospitals that provide controversial gender therapies and surgeries.
Iran's terror-sponsoring, homophobic, anti-Semitic Ayatollah Khamenei was free to tweet about destroying Israel
The Twitter heads interpreted this as dangerous, despite Raichik publicly
