FILE – In this Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, file photo, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Dorsey said Nov. 22, 2016, that the social media platform accidentally suspended his own account. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Over and over we hear the refrain from the left and the media and the Vichy Republicans that the idea that Big Tech is actively trying to stifle conservative voices is a myth. Well, that’s not entirely true. You do have the whole group of former Republicans at The Bulwark and their buddies who see their own milquetoast form of conservatism as being the financial benefactor as no one really cares what their opinion is enough to stifle them. Those are the ones chanting “muh private company” and such.
While the evidence has been overwhelming for quite a while it has been largely ignored because the targets were conservative pundits and provocateurs. Now Twitter has take the full-blown step into election manipulation. They actually suspended Mitch McConnell’s senatorial campaign Twitter account.
As my colleague Sister Toldjah related, on Sunday night a rather unhinged mob descended on Mitch McConnell’s personal residence and shouted obscenities and threats at him. The video of this low level political violence that is actively encouraged by Nancy Pelosi an her henchcreatures was pushed out on Twitter by Mitch McConnell’s campaign and by The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra. Twitter didn’t like it. Both the McConnell campaign and Saavedra had their Twitter accounts suspended. This is the story:
They told me, in a private message, that they were going to remove the video contained in the tweet, which was embedded from someone else's account
They also asked me to delete my tweet, which was separate
My tweet was newsworthy and factually accurate
I said no
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
McConnell's re-election campaign, @Team_Mitch, also shared the video, presumably to show the hatred and violence from the Democrats
Twitter also suspended their account for sharing the video
Again: Twitter suspended McConnell's campaign for showing the hatred directed at him
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
Far-left protesters went to McConnell's home screaming @ him for gun control as he recovers from injury
A protester, who appears to be a Warren supporter, said somebody should "just stab the motherf*cker in the heart"
Another said they want someone to use a "voodoo doll" on him
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
The protester screamed: "F*ck yo neck, b*tch. Murder Turtle! Murder Turtle! … F*ck yo thoughts and prayers … F*ck you, f*ck yo wife, f*ck everything you stand for"
Keep in mind, these are the same people who demand that law-abiding Americans give up their guns
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
This pic is of Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, who was falsely smeared by the media
Sandmann and his school received death threats over what happened
Twitter took no action against this tweet
Sandmann is a minorhttps://t.co/FuPhmcH4Hq pic.twitter.com/paUNr2Gl3t
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
Peter Fonda called for women in the Trump administration to stripped naked and physically beaten
He called for Trump admin officials to have their kids taken from them and thrown in cages with pedophiles
Twitter allowed him to keep his verified account https://t.co/Zww5HmvDUt
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
Back to convo w/Twitter:
They said that they were concerned about McConnell's safety, yet the Black Lives Activist / Warren supporter who called for McConnell's death is still allowed to have an account on Twitter
Keep in mind, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is a big BLM supporter
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
That far-left activist is a member of Louisville Democrat Mayor Greg Fischer's "Synergy Project," which essentially is an anti-violence taskforce
Reminder, this activist allegedly said McConnell should be stabbed in the heart and have his neck broken https://t.co/lePC1pTdG0
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
The hate that Twitter allowed to trend for days literally showed up at McConnell's home
Far-left protesters showed up with signs that featured the hashtag (#)MassacreMitch pic.twitter.com/L7zMeWFaMt
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
Twitter is only concerned that they could be blamed if something happened to McConnell because they allowed the hate against him to spread on the platform and to trend for days
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
By suspending McConnell's re-election campaign for exposing the violent rhetoric directed at McConnell, which was allowed to foment on Twitter for days, Twitter is interfering in the 2020 elections in a manner to help Democrats and hurt Republicans
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
Oh and don't forget about this:
Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro doxxed Trump donors on Twitter which is dangerous targeting in today's political atmosphere https://t.co/YA1HBtkiBC
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 7, 2019
The McConnell campaign wasn’t all that amused, either.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign has been thrown in Twitter jail.
After sharing a video of a profanity-laced protest outside of the Kentucky Republican’s home in Louisville, the campaign Twitter account, Team Mitch, has been locked out.
“This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell. This is a problem with the speech police in America today,” McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden told the Courier Journal. “The Lexington Herald-Leader can attack Mitch with cartoon tombstones of his opponents. But we can’t mock it.
“Twitter will allow the words of “Massacre Mitch” to trend nationally on their platform, but locks our account for posting actual threats against us,” Golden added. “We appealed and Twitter stood by their decision, saying our account will remain locked until we delete the video.”
If a television station or radio station had pulled a stunt like this, it would be in violation of federal election law. They simply are not allowed to refuse to carry candidate campaign ads. That Twitter blithely removed a candidate’s campaign messages from its platform is either violation of the law or is should be (and Facebook does the same, see the case of Elizabeth Heng who had her ads pulled because she had fairly tame images of the Cambodian genocide her family survived). Regardless of the legality, this was flagrant interference by a private corporation in a federal senatorial campaign.
As Saavedra points out, Twitter had zero problem with the demonstrators distributing the images. They had not problems with threats being directed at McConnell. They only had a problem when the threats were pushed out as a negative story.
This nonsense has to stop. We can’t let our republican system of government and the elections that underpin it become the plaything of three or four megacorporations and the billionaires that run them. The time is long past of a vigorous action on the part to Department of Justice to do whatever it takes, up to and including bankrupting these behemoths, to make them stay the hell out of our elections.
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