Law professor puts Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden email story into a legal context. “These documents [released by Elon Musk] show a back channel existed with President Biden’s campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials [after Biden became president]. If so, that would be when Twitter may have gone from a campaign ally to a surrogate for state censorship. As I have previously written, the administration cannot censor critics and cannot use agents for that purpose under the First Amendment. That is precisely what Musk is now alleging. As the documents were being released, he tweeted, ‘Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is.'” https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/ But this happens, literally, ALL THE TIME. Your government has the power to kill news stories, and frequently uses it.
Government officials who suggested Hunter Biden emails story was likely ‘Russian disinformation’ decline to comment on Twitter censorship revelations. “Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and defense secretary, John Brennan a former CIA director, Mike Hayden, a former CIA director, and Jim Clapper, a former director of national intelligence — who all once said The Post’s reporting had ‘all the classic earmarks of a Russian [dis]information operation’, — declined or did not respond to request for comment about whether the latest disclosures had changed their opinion…. Other letter signatories The Post reached out to including Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, Nicholas Rasmussen, a former National Counterterrorism Center director and Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA senior operations officer did not respond to request for comment. Steven L. Hall, a former CIA senior intelligence officer and Don Hepburn, a former national security executive also did not respond to a request for comment.” https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/former-top-intel-chiefs-silent-after-musk-twitter-disclosures/
Sweden deports Turkish man accused of belonging to the PKK. “The man was sentenced to over six years imprisonment for PKK membership in Turkey, but managed to flee to Sweden where he applied for asylum, a request that was denied by Swedish authorities. Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported that the man arrived in Istanbul on Friday evening after having been held by Swedish police. Local broadcaster NTV reported that he was then taken into custody by Turkish police.” https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-extradites-convicted-pkk-member-to-turkey-reports/a-63975942 “Others wanted by Ankara are people with alleged links to Fethullah Gulen – a Turkish cleric who lives in the United States and is accused of orchestrating 2016’s failed coup attempt against Erdogan.” https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-extradites-man-with-alleged-terrorism-links-turkey-media-2022-12-03/ Will they also be deporting Uighurs to China, or members of opposition groups back to Myanmar? Belorussians? North Koreans?
Donald Trump suggests throwing out 2020 election results and either appointing him president [!] or holding a second election, because Twitter censored a Hunter Biden news story. “So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democratic Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” https://twitter.com/StuartL83345803/status/1599108222857932800/photo/1 I say we charge Donald Trump WITH TREASON because he conspired to ORCHESTRATE A COUP so he could ILLEGALLY remain in power!
Yale professor accuses Elon Musk of possibly planning to use Twitter to sabotage democracy. “In a healthy democracy, a shared democratic information space allows everyone to speak truth to anyone. This is the essence of political equality…. If one destroys that information space… it will no longer be possible to marshal citizens against the powerful…. For powerful individuals, democratic legitimacy is a threat, because it is a check on their power. Why wouldn’t one of the world’s most powerful individuals want to eliminate it?” https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/project-syndicate/news/elon-musks-not-so-hidden-agenda-3187056
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