It is correct that Twitter and Google are not official government entities. So how can I claim that this is a first amandment issue?
The problem occurred during a House Intelligence Committee hearing into “Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.”
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) asked Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett why an Infowars article from Paul Joseph Watson critical of
NY mayor De Blasio appeared appeared at the top of the #NYCTerroristAttack hashtag. Edgett essentially replied that Twitter
would censor non-MSM articles in the future.
We should send in a 1,000 Letters to the Editor in Quickly’s local paper saying all sorts of things about him.
He picks his nose. He farts in public. He looks at women that are not his wife. He is personally against intimate homosexual relationships. He hates Conservatives. He is prejudice against people that don’t speak English.....
Let him try and censor every form of media. What an A$$hat!
For how many years has the National Enquirer et al been in business?
(And they’ve broken some true stories in that time).
If some people think that the masses don’t know enough not to trust every word they read on the internet (funny, but many people know enough not to believe every word they get from the MSM, so much so that their trust ratings have fallen to historic lows), then sites like Twitter can put a little disclaimer at the top of their page, advising their users to be skeptical and explaining that they haven’t verified the truth of any articles appearing on their site.
That is if such concerns are about anything other than simply trying to protect the propaganda of the powers-that-be.