As you know there has been tremendous criticism of these social media giants regarding censorship of the New York Post stories about Hunter Biden deals with Ukrainian and Chinese interests.
Here is the statement released today by Ajit Pai, FCC Chairman:
Tom Johnson, General Counsel for the FCC, issued this statement via Twitter:
As you know, several Senators have discussed issuing subpoenas for the heads of Twitter and Facebook to appear before committees regarding their censorship practices.
We don’t know right now how this will turn out, but the statements by the FCC Chairman and FCC General Counsel are positive indicators that something concrete might actually happen.
I think we broke Twitter. I tried to retweet the above tweet, and Twitter says they are “over capacity”. I made an image and tried to tweet that, and was unable to do so. Message from Twitter?
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I can’t tweet anything. Tried logging out and back in, but no dice.
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No tweet, retweet or DM. Nothing newer than an hour old in my Twitter feed.
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The last tweet that shows up in your twitter feed is one from FreedomWorks.
The next one after FreedomWorks is this one –
Why the difference? It makes no sense. Could it be Twitter is only blocking the Post and not foreign newspapers? Odd.
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They are completely screwed, I think. I hear the @Jack has made a public statement admitting that they screwed up. I’ll post Viva Frei’s video about it.
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More Viva! Thank you thank you thank you!
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Yep I was having trouble also. I imagine there is much internal howling going on with the Powers that be.
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Yes, Twitter is down.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/15/twitter-is-down.html
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Probably truing to delta all of its internal history now that the writing is on the wall.
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Apparently Jack Dorsey has made a statement admitting that they screwed up.
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Saw that, kind of hard to get the feather back in the pillow when you cut it open and shake it at the top of a mountain.
Can’t wait to see the Great Fall.
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Honestly Stella…
At this point I don’t think Facebook and Twitter can stop this … it’s out!
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Twitter is down.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/15/twitter-is-down.html
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But is it enough to blunt the Biden momentum? I can’t see dedicated anti-Trumpers suddenly seeing Biden as the Greater Evil and not voting. Many younger people see theft by politicians as not as bad as the social crimes the media’s groundlessly accused Trump of, his alleged social crimes are worse – in their eyes – than the usual theft by political figures.
I hope there’s enough time for formal charges to be filed against Biden Jr but I’m not sure they will be. If Biden wins there’ll be a delay as as new DoJ is formed, public interest will die down and at some future Friday before a 3-day major holiday a report accusing Biden of some minor misunderstandings of international business law, misreading Chinese emails and bad table manners.
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