FreeSpeech and Censorship: Thread

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ZeroHedge Suspended Again By Twitter For Reporting Facts

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fair-analysis-4-9-million-illegal-aliens-have-crossed-our-borders-since-president-biden-took-office-301606980.html
https://twitter.com/RepTiffany/status/1560018819896283137
https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1559777842854076422
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illegal%20alien
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1560678991203184640
https://twitter.com/RepBrianBabin/status/1559620626486362113
https://twitter.com/KAMRLocal4News/status/1560705038447697926
https://twitter.com/TheHerald_Sun/status/1562555176074252288
https://twitter.com/chorswell/status/1559668288430522368
https://twitter.com/davidwebbshow/status/1559887533944750081
https://twitter.com/zerohedge

Just when we thought that after a tsunami of bipartisan blowback to
Twitter's ludicrous censorship implemented by woke 20-year-olds who
chronically confuse the terms fascist and anti-fascist, yet who are
"erudite" enough to be definitive experts in immunology and
immediately ban anyone who speaks out against what even the CDC now
admits was flawed Covid "science", that the social network had finally
learned its place and would allow conversation to take place without
constant intermediation (read: propaganda), we were proven glaringly
wrong.

You see, more than two years after Twitter admitted it had made an
"error" for "permanently" suspending ZeroHedge (for 133 days) over its
reporting on the origins of the Wuhan virus...

    Twitter Reinstates Zerohedge After Admitting It Made An "Error"
https://t.co/E10nP8WUN2
    — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 13, 2020

... but really in response to a ZeroHedge article which prompted none
other than Anthony Fauci to scramble with damage control at the
highest government echelons...

... a suspension which even Jack Dorsey eventually confirmed was a mistake...

    it was a business decision, it shouldn't have been. and we should
always revisit our decisions and evolve as necessary. I stated in that
thread and still believe that permanent bans of individuals are
directionally wrong.
    — jack (@jack) May 10, 2022

... and 4 months after the world's richest man, Elon Musk, offered to
buy the company ostensibly to reverse Twitter's transformation into a
modern Gestapo...

    Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.

    Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022

... and a giant propaganda machine (one which is so critical to the
outcome of elections, even the deep state has stepped in to "help"
Musk scuttle him becoming the new boss now that he has cold feet over
the excessive purchase price which he appears to have come up with in
a rather mind-altered state), we woke up this morning to learn that we
had received a 12 hour suspension for... well, see for yourselves.
Here is the notification that Twitter sent us:

Now, we admit that Twitter would be absolutely in its right to suspend
us if we had made up the numbers, or somehow planted malicious KGB
code in a story about millions of illegal aliens entering the country,
that would force anyone reading the tweet to, for example, go and vote
against President Harris in 2024, ensuring a landslide victory for
either Trump or se Santis, but we didn't.

In fact, all we did was use the verbatim title that the Federation for
American Immigration Reform used in its press release from August 16.

It gets better: our "hateful conduct" tweet is the exact same as
Wisconsin Rep Tom Tiffany used one week before us.

    There have been over 4.2 MILLION illegal alien crossings since Joe
Biden took office.

    That’s MORE THAN the population in 23 states. https://t.co/Q0ry9fYMf3
    — Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) August 17, 2022

And while one can blame Tiffany for being partisan, how about Mark
Krikorian, who is an executive director at the independent,
non-partisan, Center for Immigration Studies:

    Border Patrol Has Already Set a New Yearly Apprehension Record at
the Southwest Border https://t.co/cGOT81TeLj 1.8 million illegal-alien
"encounters", with two months to go in the fiscal year.
    — Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) August 17, 2022

Or maybe since the tweet is clearly factual, the woke Twitter censor
took offense at the use of the phrase "illegal alien"? Well, if so,
can the twitter employee who defines "hateful conduct" please look up
the Webster's definition of "illegal alien" and tell us where it says
this particular phrase is disparaging or "hateful"?

And if indeed it was this phrase that triggered at least one Twitter
"snowflake", why did Senator Ted Cruz not get suspended for using the
exact same word:

    President Biden has a human trafficking crisis at our southern border.

    Sadly, he doesn’t care.

    In his view, every illegal alien is a potential new voter for the Democrats.
    #BidenBorderCrisis
    https://t.co/WTNuFUrSNJ
    — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) August 19, 2022

It's not just Ted Cruz:

    July marked the 17th consecutive month of more than 150K illegal
alien apprehensions.

    By abandoning border security, Biden’s abandoned our national security.

    Suspected terrorists are taking advantage, cartels are taking
control, & Americans are dying. https://t.co/hgJTLHRqdq
    — Brian Babin (@RepBrianBabin) August 16, 2022

Forget politicians: what about local authorities:

    Update: A Friona woman has officially been indicted in Amarillo
Federal Court for 16 counts of "harboring an illegal alien," according
to documents filed earlier this month. https://t.co/TE9xOQBgRK
    — KAMR Local 4 News (@KAMRLocal4News) August 19, 2022

    The 18-year-old brother of the two men charged with killing Ned
Byrd is facing a charge of “possession of ammunition by an illegal
alien.” https://t.co/XU56pW59Xa
    — Durham Herald-Sun (@TheHerald_Sun) August 24, 2022

... and even "bluechecked" journos:

    NYC Is ‘Most Dangerous Sanctuary Community’ in US, Says Report on
Illegal Alien Policieshttps://t.co/6N5sskJsXL
    — cindy horswell (@chorswell) August 16, 2022

    Think: Illegal aliens crossing our open southern border, are
coming here to join their relatives. This is a generational illegal
alien problem and the Biden administration is making it worse.
#BidenHumanTrafficking
    — David Webb (@davidwebbshow) August 17, 2022

So what was the trigger - because we are genuinely confused? Or is
Elon right that there is no greater modern Gestapo than twitter's woke
(and soon to be very much unemployed workers if a Delaware judge
forces Twitter to consummate the contractual deal to purchase twitter)
workforce?

While we doubt we will get an answer, and we certainly doubt that
twitter will admit again that it was wrong in targeting us, we would
urge Twitter's snowflakes to actually go out into the world (after all
they all work from home, right), see what it's like, enjoy the
sunshine (without triplicate masks), maybe watch an 80's move like
Aliens. And speaking of Aliens, Pvt Vasquez' last words summarizes
best how we feel toward Twitter's increasingly laughable and desperate
attempts to censor and control every conversation by its
soon-learning-to-code they/thems.