Even Russia’s leading pro-democracy dissident Alexey Navalny took to twitter to condemn the ban, calling it an “unacceptable act of censorship.”
“Among the people who have Twitter accounts are cold-blooded murderers (Vladimir Putin or Nicholas Maduro) and liars and thieves (Dmitry Medvedev). For many years, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have been used as a base for Putin’s ‘troll factory’ and similar groups from other authoritarian countries,” Navalny wrote on Twitter.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cruz-twitter-trump-election/2021/01/10/id/1004994/
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
(German: “Das war Vorspiel nur. Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.”)
- Heinrich Heine, Almansor (1821)