Friday, July 31, 2020
Twitter Official Attempts to Explain Censorship of Trump But Not Dictators Calling for Genocide
During an Israeli Knesset hearing on anti-semitism this week, an official from Twitter was asked why President Trump's tweets are censored or given warning labels while tweets from dictators calling for genocide are allowed to stand.
"You have recently started flagging tweets from President Trump, why have you not flagged the tweets of Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei who has literally called for the genocide of the Jewish people?" human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky asked.
"Calling for genocide on Twitter is okay but commenting on certain political situations is not okay?" another woman pressed.
This was the response:
I kid you not! At Knesset hearing on Antisemitism, @Twitter rep tells me they flag @realDonaldTrump because it serves ‘public conversation’, but not Iran's @khamenei_ir call for GENOCIDE, which passes for acceptable 'commentary on political issues of the day'.
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In other words, they are picking and choosing who they censor. That's an explicit violation of the law they claim protects them against lawsuits for the content they publish.
It is well past time for an anti trust lawsuit for several anti American companies. Beat 'em like Bell Telephone.
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