Twitter Conspired for Years to Ban Trump
Twitter Conspired for Years to Ban Trump
The effort to kick Trump off Twitter began long before Jan. 6, 2021. We have to pray against the power and bias of big tech.
From The Federalist. Censorship-hungry Twitter employees vented to the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 that their company wasnāt authoritarian enough when it came to curbing former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2021 Capitol riot, a newly releasedĀ 122-page memoĀ shows. āThe Twitter Files,ā however, prove Big Tech went out of its way to suppress the Republican president long before his ban from the platform on Jan. 8, 2021.
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When the Twitter staff, or āTweeps,ā gave witness testimony to the J6 Committee last year, they likely didnāt anticipate a fact-check of their public statements against their internal communications. Then Elon Musk acquired the company in October of 2022 and released internal documents exposing Twitterās key censorship decisions and election meddling.
Some of the material in the revelations dubbed āThe Twitter Filesā corroborates what these ex-staffers told the J6 Committee about Twitterās hesitation to ban Trump until Jan. 8. Many of the uncovered documents and communications, however, prove that long before the riot, Twitter treated Trump differently than it did most world leaders.
Tweeps Agree: Big Tech Not Authoritarian Enough
Anika Navaroli, a member of Twitterās censorship team, told the J6 Committee in anonymous testimony in July of 2022 that Twitterās decision to delay the permanent suspension of Trump until after the riot was āabsolutely indicative and emblematic of Twitterās hands-off, willfully ignorant approach to the former Presidentās rhetoric on the service and on the platform.ā
Much like hundreds of Twitter employees who wrote anĀ open letterĀ demanding the presidentās permanent suspension, Navaroli claimed she lobbied for the curbing of Trump long before he wasĀ banned on Jan. 8, 2021, but her demands for action were ignored. ā¦
Navaroliās frustrations furthered when, after being tasked with evaluating the validity of Trumpās online rhetoric following the Capitol riot, she ultimately dismissed the outgoing presidentās tweets as above board under Twitterās policies. ā¦
Navaroli wasnāt alone. Another unnamed member of Twitterās safety policy team told the J6 Committee that Twitterās censorship teams werenāt equipped to āfind a rationale to suspend the Presidentās account from the service, and āstop the insurrectionāā on Jan. 6. ā¦
Itās clear from these accounts that Twitter employees tried to find a cause for deplatforming Trump under the Big Tech companyās then-policies. When they failed to obtain the political results they desired, partisan Twitter executivesĀ sidestepped free speech loyalistsĀ at the company by changing the rulesĀ to target Trump alone. The Capitol riot was simply their catalyst. ā¦
Twitter Did Treat Trump Differently
The effort to permanently bar Trump may have concentrated around the Capitol riot and culminated with a mad scramble on Jan. 8, as Navaroli suggested. Still, as āTwitter Filesā journalist Matt TaibbiĀ noted in part three of the exposĆ©, āthe intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots.ā ā¦
The treatment Trump received from Twitterās top censors may have been different, but it was far from the ādeferential treatmentā the J6 Committee concluded had occurred. ā¦
Twitter staff and executives were so overcome with their hatred for Trump that they were willing to create a reason to deplatform the president. What those employees didnāt anticipate is that their shenanigans would be blown open by āThe Twitter Filesā mere months after they gave sworn testimony to Democrats in Congress. ā¦
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(Excerpt from The Federalist. Photo Credit: Getty Images)
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Father God you know your son and all he has done for the United States of America he is not perfect but he has done so much that still lives on Father God protect him and make him even stronger than when he was president in the United States utilize him in many ways thank you Father God
Father… Thank you for revealing the truth about censorship in America in the media and our government and raising up leaders to expose the truth of how our voices have been silenced… And thank you Lord for your word in helping us to take a stand for the truth and restoring our voices in America and we give you thanks and praise and glory to God… Amen
Campaign laws are responsible for the corporate voice having more influence in our elections than the voice of natural persons!
In 1974 Congress set limits on contributions by individuals, political parties and PACs. By passing the Federal Election Campaign Act, Congress āabridgedā citizens 1st Amendment freedoms of speech and press.
But they exempted the corporate media, because they could not āabridgeā 1st Amendment rights. This āPress Exemptionā created a āState Approved Pressā:
52 USC Ch. 301 (9)(B) The term “expenditure” does not includeā (i) any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate;
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society–the farmers, mechanics, and laborers–who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. (President Andrew Jackson, veto of national bank bill, July 10, 1832).
A newspaper must at all times antagonize the selfish interests of that very class which furnishes the larger part of a newspaper’s income… The press in this country is dominated by the wealthy few…that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people that correct information concerning political, economical and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people Shall have in order that they vote…in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing classes. (E.W. Scripps). – 1878
To restore equal rights to citizens, federal candidates, political parties and PACs āWe the Peopleā should ask our representatives in the Senate and House to revisit āS. 2416 ā 113th Congress: Free All Speech Act of 2014.ā http://www.GovTrack.us. 2014. June 15, 2022 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s2416
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2416
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 3, 2014
Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To apply laws that restrict the political speech of American citizens to media corporations.
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Free All Speech Act of 2014 .
2. Application of laws that restrict the political speech of American citizens to media corporations
(a) In general
Any law that restricts the political speech of American citizens shall apply with equal force to media corporations, such as the New York Times, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the CBS Television Network.
(b) No application to American citizens if application to media corporations found unconstitutional
To the extent that the application of a law to a media corporation under subsection (a) is found unconstitutional, such law shall have no force or effect with respect to American citizens.