Due to Twitter blocking links to the New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings in Ukraine, some House Republicans reposted the report on a government website. Twitter decided to block links to that also.
So now @Twitter and @jack are blocking access to a government website…all to protect Joe Biden.
This is not only dangerous and corrupt, it's clear election interference!!! https://t.co/fnOxLiU4cJ pic.twitter.com/dzjyD7LPMz
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 15, 2020
Other pro-Trump accounts have also been blocked.
Twitter has suspended @TeamTrump for posting a video calling Joe Biden a liar who has been ripping off our country for years, as it relates to the @nypost article.
19 days out from the election. pic.twitter.com/Z9FFzridyr
— Mike Hahn (@mikehahn_) October 15, 2020
Not only did Twitter mess around with the White House Press Secretary’s personal account but they also locked out James Woods and Jack Posobiec for tweets they posted about the Biden-Ukraine report.
BREAKING: @jack has locked down @RealJamesWoods!
The censorship is out of control. #FreeJames pic.twitter.com/Q0ELuv3hp5
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 14, 2020
This is ridiculous.
Jack Posobiec posted the photos of Hunter Biden released in today’s article…
Twitter locked his account and sent him an alert to delete it.
RT! pic.twitter.com/17O7ZKsDKO
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 14, 2020
Locked out of their accounts for sharing factual information that makes Biden look bad @JackPosobiec @kayleighmcenany @RealJamesWoods @nypost
If they aren’t exempt from political censorship, imagine what the small guys face? It’s impossible to grow
https://t.co/d1ocRwpUVE— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) October 15, 2020
The criticism to these censorship measures have been fierce prompting Jack Dorsey to issue the following statement.
Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable. https://t.co/v55vDVVlgt
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2020
He says blocking URLs without context is unacceptable. I would argue that blocking URLs due to the political content in said URLs is never acceptable regardless of what communication is delivered.
This shows once again that Twitter and these other social media sites are acting as publishers. These are not platforms that provide a neutral ground for people to express ideas. It proves that they are not eligible for all the legal protections that platforms are allowed to enjoy.
Twitter is even actively promoting disinformation about the Biden-Ukraine story.
This — Twitter's description of Biden's actions in Ukraine — is not true, and not even disputed.
Biden absolutely pressured the Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor. He's said so himself.https://t.co/StzSrbkXw3 pic.twitter.com/xXRfpJ1YFU
— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) October 15, 2020
Be a shame if this Joe Biden video went viral today- Biden bragging about how he threatened to pull $1 billion in loan guarantees from Ukraine if it didn’t immediately fire their Prosecutor, who was leading a corruption investigation into Burisma pic.twitter.com/rNr7UT50F9 #maga
— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) October 15, 2020
They are blatantly interfering in the American election because they know that if they can get the orange man out of the White House, there is zero chance anything will happen to them.
Now granted, even with the orange man still in the White House, we are not guaranteed of anything being done about the censorship of these big tech operations. This is largely due to what failures most Republicans are. But at least with the orange man in power there is a chance something can be done.
The good news is that even mainstream Republicans seem to finally be getting the message of how dangerous this censorship agenda has been. We aren’t hearing a whole lot of gibberish about “private companies” etc..
Too bad they’re a little late to the party on this issue.