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Lord, we don't take our freedom for granted, but we see it being squelched in certain areas. We pray that we would not allow our freedom to be taken, as it is you who has given it!
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Republicans are going to war with Twitter after the platform froze the Mitch McConnell re-election account this week because the campaign posted a video of threats directed at the Senate majority leader, just as President Trump is planning a separate crackdown on left-wing social media bias.

[Wait, did you catch that?  Senator McConnell was posting evidence of the physical threats from protesters who had clamored outside the McConnell home to harass and threaten him. Twitter froze McConnell’s account.  Read on.]

The National Republican Senatorial Committee on Thursday said it won’t spend money on Twitter until the situation is “adequately addressed.” A top official with the Republican National Committee also said the RNC and the Trump campaign would not spend money with Twitter “until they address this disgusting bias.”

Meanwhile, the White House for weeks has been hinting at possible action in relation to how social media outlets treat conservatives. A White House official told Fox News the administration is “exploring all policy solutions.” The administration has circulated drafts of a possible executive order from Trump, following a summit last month where he met with conservative social media influencers, according to Politico.

“If the internet is going to be presented as this egalitarian platform and most of Twitter is liberal cesspools of venom, then at least the president wants some fairness in the system,” a White House official told the outlet. It is unclear what the order will entail or how it would aim to curb social media bias but it reportedly deals with other issues as well.

[Will you join us to pray?  We see a ratcheting-up of violent threats, the censorship of conservatives online (IFA has experienced this), and the double standard of excusing violence and threatening speech toward conservatives, but blaming Conservatives for the vitriol we hear in our nation. We need deliverance as a nation from a spirit of violence, a spirit of twisted speech, and a spirit of deception.]

Meanwhile, Republicans noted, Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro remains active on Twitter, even after he posted the names of San Antonio residents who donated to Trump.

“Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell,” McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden said in a statement on Wednesday. “This is the problem with the speech police in America today.”

Golden said that the campaign appealed the suspension and Twitter upheld it, saying Team Mitch will remain suspended until the take down the video.

“The users were temporarily locked out of their accounts for a Tweet that violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety,” a Twitter spokesperson told Fox News. The website’s policy states that users cannot share content that includes threats against an individual or group of people, regardless of context. [Meanwhile, the movie The Hunt, which shows rich elites hunting “deplorables” for sport is out and being promoted.]

In addition to a potential executive order, the White House is planning a summit with technology companies on Friday aimed at combatting extremism online. This comes after President Trump discussed the dangers on the internet during an address following last weekend’s shootings in El Paso and Dayton. The El Paso suspect had been linked to an online manifesto that expressed hatred toward Hispanic immigrants.

[Pray that President Trump and his administration would have the wisdom, creativity, and strategy to tackle this censorship issue online and in our nation.]

(Excerpted from Fox News, article from Ronn Blitzer.)

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Ken Budz
August 11, 2019

Dear Lord thank You for Your love. Please stop the hate, especially the hate that kills. Open people’s hearts and minds to You and Your word. People seem to be searching for answers. I found that You Lord and Your word are the answer for my life. May others find that You are the Way the Truth and the Life. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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