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Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org)
A reader shares an NPR report: With the push of a button, an employee at Twitter accomplished for a brief few minutes on Thursday what President Trump's closest advisors have reportedly been trying unsuccessfully to do for months: shut down the seemingly never-ending tweet stream at @realDonaldTrump. Perhaps it was an act of civil disobedience, or maybe just a "take this job and shove it" moment, but shortly before 7 p.m., the president's personal account kicked back the error message "does not exist." By 7:03 p.m., it was up and running again and within about a half-hour, new presidential tweets were forthcoming. The folks at Twitter leapt into action to find out what had happened: "Earlier today @realdonaldtrump's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again," the company said in a statement. Two hours later, the company said, "Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day."
This is the $64,000 question right here. Twitter has been actively censoring viewpoints they don't like and there is literally no oversight. 1984 memory holes are alive and well at Twitter.
Hey - don't be like the intolerant Antifa (now there's an oxymoron) anti-free speech people. Everyone should have their say, whether you agree or disagree. You have the option of ignoring it.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Everyone in the media has an obligation to freedom of speech and ALL other freedoms or they are a traitor.
Umm no dumbass, that's not how any of this works.
LOL u joking bro? They shut down the speech of people they disagree with with violence. Antifa are not Anti Fascists. If they were...they would attack Hillary, Bush and Sorosï. They wear masks and black shirts. They bear a great resemblance to the very people they claim to oppose. At what point do you ask yourself, "Hans, are we the baddies?"
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
They're a window into the confusing mind of a very powerful man.
More like, a window into his butt.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Pretending that it's somehow equal is totally wrong. The Left utterly banished opposing opinions from the airwaves. It got so bad that conservative opinions retreated all the way to AM radio, a terrible ghetto, to be heard. I mean, come on, AM radio? It's a wonder that it still exists, and I had that thought 30 years ago. Then Murdoch started his Fox news, but what else? Prior to the rise of citizen journalism on Youtube, there was hardly anything but tame, controlled opposition which would be allowed to say something non-controversial and then refuted by the two other talking heads and the hosts.
The recent election was the tipping point, when the mask came off and the mainstream media became a partisan force, one dedicated to the cause of electing Hillary Clinton, who we now have hard proof in the form of a confession from her campaign manager, that she was utterly corrupt. The New York Times, after its completely biased coverage, said that "We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign", a statement breathtaking in its nearsightedness. Here's a leaked email showing how the Dems colluded with the press. Glenn Thrush of Politico was exposed seeking Podesta's approval of articles about Clinton. Even Thrush wrote "please don't tell anyone" and "I'm such a hack". The consequences for Thrush? He was hired by the New York Times after the election. How can you have any sympathy with these organizations that threaten people into silence with threats of doxxing? It's like the mafia. So let's drop the "both sides do it" thing because the power levels are not even remotely the same.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Stating the obvious to the three of you:
Hillary, Bush, and Soros are not "fascists". They don't become fascists just because you disagree with them. Fuck I hate Bush's regime with a passion, but the nearest I ever criticized it as remotely close to certain 1930s European regimes was in committing a similar war crime - namely conspiracy to wage war. Ideologically these are not fascists - they are not white supremacists, they do not promote violence against ethnic or religious minorities, they do not advocate violence against peaceful political opponents, they do not intend to use the state to punish political opposition, and so on.
The loose coalition of groups that labels itself Antifa has been pretty consistent in attacking groups that self identify with the political labels most people consider fascist: neo-nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, etc.
Fascism is wrong. Most ordinary people "get it". Being against Fascism is not wrong, and while we can have a healthy debate about the use of violence against Fascists, we can reasonably agree that someone doesn't become a Fascist just because they disagree with you, but that people whose ideological make up is based upon violence and the racial superiority of the dominant racial group do fit most definitions of Fascist.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
They're a window into the confusing mind of a very powerful man.
More like, a window into his butt.
Triggered, Ivan?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.