FreeSpeech and Censorship: Thread

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Twitter's new scumbag CEO Agrawal, first week on the job,
goes on censorship rampage killing hundreds of accounts,
including censoring trial to protect human scumbags...



https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/new-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-raises-free-speech-concerns/
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/show-notes-twitter-ceo-anti
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/29/twitter-dorsey-agrawal-ceo-523492


During the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a few Twitter accounts have
been providing extremely detailed information - Adam Klasfeld, Inner
City Press, and the 'Maxwell Trial Tracker.'

On Wednesday, Twitter nuked the latter.

    Maxwell trial tracker did not kill itself pic.twitter.com/lHj5e4jALU
    — Greg Capital (@phoenixvalue) December 8, 2021

The owner of the account reported the following on the Free Press Report:

I woke up this morning and the @TrackerTrial account on Twitter was
suspended. All the other accounts that I have made in the past were
also suspended. This was the only note that I received.

The @TrackerTrial account was the largest account on Twitter that
specifically tracked the Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein trial.

According to Twitter’s rules, apparently the account was
“artificially” amplifying information. I am not sure what I was
“amplifying” and how I was doing that.

The account got insane engagement, which by the way, was all organic.
There was not outside amplification. The people wanted to hear the
truth about the Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein trial and the
engagement numbers showed that. There were hundreds of millions in
impressions and an account that went from zero to over 525,000
followers in a couple of weeks. All we did was report information from
the trial that the mainstream media was failing to do.

Going forward we will continue to report on the trial and all forms of
big government and corporate corruption. This is just the beginning.
We have appealed to Twitter for a possible lift of the suspension, but
it is likely we will never hear from them.

Big tech has gotten too powerful, and they can silence us anytime they
want. As we wrote earlier in the week in an article titled, The Global
Media Industrial Complex:

    Local blogs and websites are suppressed by big tech algorithms. If
you write one thing out of line Google can institute a site wide ban,
making sure you never show up in search algorithms again. Facebook
restricts what is posted on their website. Twitter suppresses any
outside links, to keep users on their own site. The year is 2021 and
big brother is watching.

The only thing I am asking is for everyone to share this article to
get the word out. All information pertaining to this trial will be
exclusively written here. I also have a Gab account if anyone is
interested in a more informal route of communication. Finally, if you
want to support the freedom of speech and press, consider becoming a
paid member of The Free Press Report.

The only way for us to stay independent and provide coverage of
corruption indefinitely is to be a reader supported publication. We
need to go back to the old school days where the PEOPLE supported and
funded the free press. The Founding Fathers believed in the freedom of
press. The right to report on news and circulate opinion without
censorship from the government. Today this censorship is from big
tech, another powerful arm of a tyrannical government.

You can help support the freedom of the press by becoming a paid
subscriber to The Free Press Report. For the cost of only one coffee
per month, you can help liberate knowledge and support the right to a
free press. You can help keep The Free Press Report internally funded
by the people, for the people.

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Meanwhile, Twitter also suspended the Pelosi Portfolio Tracker - which
kept track of the Speaker's stock trades.

    Along with the Maxwell Trial Tracker account, Twitter also banned
the Nancy Pelosi Portfolio Tracker page that did an amazing job at
shining a light on her corrupt dealings and her uncanny return rate on
her investments that couldn't have been done without insider trading.
pic.twitter.com/wbvgh1WGv4
    — 𝕴𝖆𝖓 𝕭𝖔𝖞𝖑𝖊 (@TheGeekHoard) December 8, 2021

As Roger L. Simon writes in the Epoch Times, "Now More Than Ever
Conservatives Must Get Off Twitter":

I have written before urging conservatives to get off Twitter.

By remaining on the social media (what a weird name, when you think
about it) site they are, in essence, sleeping with the enemy,
cooperating with a company that is as deeply mired in cancel culture
as any.

I need not remind readers of how Twitter, under its then CEO Jack
Dorsey, played a pivotal role weeks before election 2020 by blocking
the New York Post’s accurate coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop
scandal.

This same portable computer—we have just learned via the Post’s
Miranda Devine through her new book “Laptop from Hell”—contained yet
more appalling information linking the Biden family to Xi Jinping’s
China to the tune of millions.

Polls tell us that had more of the public been informed about the
laptop before the election, the result would likely have been
different. (Or may have been accurate, if you prefer.)

And yet, despite my importuning (which I readily admit doesn’t count
for much), not to mention the freedom of speech principles they claim
to believe in, few well-known conservatives, politicians or media,
have left Twitter to this date.

Sadly, they seem addicted to it. Or perhaps they are afraid of being
left out. Whatever the case, it’s an unattractive mix of cowardice and
hypocrisy.

Now, however, Jack Dorsey has resigned and a new CEO installed, the
company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal.

After only one day of the new regime—what breitibart.com aptly calls
“Gulag Parag”—Twitter has actually made a turn to the worse, taking it
further toward the fascistic.

The platform has issued new rules banning the sharing of images or
videos without, in most cases, the explicit consent of those being
photographed.

In other words, good-bye the victims of Waukesha because there was no
time to ask people questions, let alone get the consent of the mass
murderer.

Good-bye, Antifa burning buildings. (Can you imagine getting their
permission? You’d probably get bashed over the head with a skateboard,
if you were lucky.).

Good-bye, virtually anything that reflects poorly on the left or their
ideologies. BLM riots and similar are unlikely to appear again.

What was most interesting about Twitter was its immediacy. No more. We
are now in the era of “selective immediacy.”

Twitter will only show what the new regime wants it to. How
neo-Stalinist. No wonder Dorsey wanted to beat it and turn over the
reins before the inevitable pushback.

Speaking of which, who is Parag Agrawal? He has been accused of racism
for, you guessed it, an ancient Tweet.

I’ll give him a pass on that, largely because Twitter itself, through
its telegraphic form that rewards the clever put-down over the
substantive, consistently brings out the worst in people. Social
media, as I implied above, is misnomered. It should be called
anti-social media.

I won’t, however, give Agrawal a pass on his new regulations. He comes
from the tech world and it seems increasing numbers of techs are
skeptical of free speech, perhaps because they study technology, not
history. Technology has the illusion of being definitive when it’s
not. (Remember “garbage in, garbage out.”)

This is a moment of change toward the further totalitarian at Twitter
and, as is written in the I-Ching, “Change… Opportunity.”

The opportunity here is for conservatives to finally get off. Agrawal
and company have provided an excuse for those who need it. To remain
on a platform that has ramped up its already significant censorship
capabilities to such a degree would be a new level of hypocrisy.

And toward what end? Is anybody really listening, anybody who might be
convinced of something? Will the gang at CNN finally admit their
constant prevarications? Hardly.

Reforming Twitter is impossible. You don’t own it. Better to do the
right thing—leave and in so doing destroy it. The stock is already
headed down. Keep it that way.

You’ll be doing everybody a favor, including liberals and
progressives, although most of them may be too clueless to realize
social media is polluting everyone’s brains.

But do it most of all to feel better about yourself. Trust me—you will.