by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
The decision to ban President Trump from Twitter on January 8, 2021, two days after the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol, grew out of an “intellectual framework” that took shape during the four years of his presidency.
That, and the strange pride Twitter enforcer Yoel Roth took in meeting with the FBI and other federal agencies about who and what to ban on Twitter, is the latest from Matt Taibbi on the platform’s censorship operation. Two more installments about Trump are ahead.
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The upshot of the reports thus far: They show how dangerous leftists such as Roth are when they control a major communications platform. They shut down speech they don’t like.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk called the suppression what it was: “election interference.”
2. The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th…
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
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But targeting the president of the United States after he told his supporters to go home and stay peaceful seemed to have been the acme of Twitter’s targeting conservatives and Republicans.
“Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import,” Taibbi wrote:
Even Twitter’s employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech.
An internal message shows one executive asking whether a head of state had ever been banned.
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