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Twitter is run by Democratic donors and activists (follow the money)
New York Post ^ | August 4, 2018 | 8:21am | Paul Sperry

Posted on 08/05/2018 9:11:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

After Twitter was caught last month “shadow-banning” Republicans, while giving Democrats unrestricted voice, the social-media giant insisted it has no political agenda. But records of its political contributions show board members, top executives and major shareholders have all given overwhelmingly to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, while snubbing Republicans and Donald Trump.

Federal records reveal 80 percent of Twitter’s corporate PAC contributions in the 2018 election cycle have gone to Democratic candidates, none of whom are moderates. Liberal Democrats also got top dollar in the 2016 race.

The lobbying records I reviewed, moreover, show Twitter has sought to influence Congress and federal agencies on behalf of Democratic causes and against President Trump’s policies.

Vice News last month broke the story that Twitter limited the visibility of Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and several Republicans leading Hill investigations into the Obama administration’s efforts to spy on the Trump campaign, including Reps. Devin Nunes (Calif.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Mark Meadows (NC) and John Ratcliffe (Texas).

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1 posted on 08/05/2018 9:11:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Conservatives are too busy working, creating legacies, hiking and hunting and simply enjoying all that the world has to offer.

We aren’t making the TV programs, we aren’t making the internet empires and we aren’t taking days off of work to show up for protests.

Sorry, Too busy enjoying all that has been given to us. The blessings of this enormous planet that we enjoy and revere.


2 posted on 08/05/2018 9:14:22 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Celerity
Frank Perconte: Trump kind of remind you of Hitler?

George Luz: Yeah, now that you mention it. Except, of course, there’s no ghettos, Jews aren’t starving to death, no trains going to concentration camps and trees aren’t exploding from Kraut artillery, but yeah… Frank… other than that, Trump’s a lot like Hitler.

(Dialogue "borrowed" from “The Band of Brothers”)

3 posted on 08/05/2018 9:15:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (The New York Times: Printed by liberal elitists for the benefit of liberal elitists.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thanks for the information. Now I have to conclude that twitter was created for the express and sole purpose of facilitating leftist propaganda, and suppressing truth.

It’s NOT an innocent “social media” website for keeping in touch. It’s a leftist organ.


4 posted on 08/05/2018 9:19:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hypocritical hysteria: Manafort/Russia Probe again!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Candice Owen was suspended on Twitter because she took Sarah Jeong’s tweets and replaced white with black. Remember, Candice is a black conservative.. They never suspended Jeong.


5 posted on 08/05/2018 9:27:32 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
After Twitter was caught last month “shadow-banning” Republicans, while giving Democrats unrestricted voice, the social-media giant insisted it has no political agenda

ENFORCE OUR 100 Yr Old ANTI TRUST LAWS!!!

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws

The Sherman Act outlaws “every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade,” and any “monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize.” Long ago, the Supreme Court decided that the Sherman Act does not prohibit every restraint of trade, only those that are unreasonable. For instance, in some sense, an agreement between two individuals to form a partnership restrains trade, but may not do so unreasonably, and thus may be lawful under the antitrust laws. On the other hand, certain acts are considered so harmful to competition that they are almost always illegal. These include plain arrangements among competing individuals or businesses to fix prices, divide markets, or rig bids. These acts are “per se” violations of the Sherman Act; in other words, no defense or justification is allowed.

The penalties for violating the Sherman Act can be severe. Although most enforcement actions are civil, the Sherman Act is also a criminal law, and individuals and businesses that violate it may be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Criminal prosecutions are typically limited to intentional and clear violations such as when competitors fix prices or rig bids. The Sherman Act imposes criminal penalties of up to $100 million for a corporation and $1 million for an individual, along with up to 10 years in prison. Under federal law, the maximum fine may be increased to twice the amount the conspirators gained from the illegal acts or twice the money lost by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is over $100 million.
6 posted on 08/05/2018 9:39:39 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Twitter banned Candace Owens for 12 hours yesterday because she quoted that Asian racist bitch and replaced the words white with black and Jewish to see what would happen..she got banned..so there ya go commie Twitter is A OK with you as long as you hate cops and white people


7 posted on 08/05/2018 9:52:35 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Twitter is run by traitors to the Republic. Enemies of the Bill of Rights.


8 posted on 08/05/2018 9:52:42 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They hate truth...

They deleted Candace Owens’ tweets today:

No matter which way you slice it, @sarahjeong is a racist. It is ABHORRENT that the failing @nytimes has decided to stand by her. Hoping for the extermination of ANY race, is indefensible behavior. Candace Owens Candace Owens @RealCandaceO ·

Jewish people are bullshit... like dogs pissing on fire hydrants. #cancelJewishpeople. Are Jewish people genetically disposed to burn faster in the sun?

The above statements are from @nytimes editor @sarahjeong. I simply swapped out the word “white” for “Jewish”. Candace Owens Candace Owens @RealCandaceO ·

Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women.

The above statements are from @nytimes editor @sarahjeong. I simply swapped out the word “white” for “black”.


9 posted on 08/05/2018 10:34:07 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (17...#1776)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why don’t they just give their money to islamists on the street?


10 posted on 08/05/2018 11:23:25 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

James O’Keefe and Project Veritas caught IT people from Twitter on camera admitting that they had a political agenda.

Republicans should call the Twitter executives who are uoted here, cite their donor history, and sask them under oath if these actions were undertaken with a political agenda. (They will deny it.)

Then call the IT folks O’Keefe’s people got on camera and ask them the same questions.

Call O’Keefe and his reporters. Get them to talk about it. Have them show the video. Enter it into the Record.

Then refer the Twitter executives for perjury.


11 posted on 08/05/2018 12:23:28 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Paul Sperry, in the NY Post? Hmm. Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.

12 posted on 08/05/2018 1:49:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Celerity; MinuteGal

“Conservatives are too busy working, creating legacies, hiking and hunting and simply enjoying all that the world has to offer.

We aren’t making the TV programs, we aren’t making the internet empires and we aren’t taking days off of work to show up for protests.

Sorry, Too busy enjoying all that has been given to us. The blessings of this enormous planet that we enjoy and revere.”

Yes, and all of what you listed above is why we could lose our country as a Republic, because while we work and play, the Socialists plot and scheme; we leave the pot unwatched while the country boils over. We work while the Commie/Socialist Dems bus in paid with walking around money non-workers such as skid row bums, illegal aliens and welfare queens, to vote.

Meanwhile their Soros funded Dem socialist organizers hire welfare scammers to join with feminazi women and their anarchist metrosexual men, as well as riled up Black and Hispanics and Muzzies and other disaffected minorities with ideological axes to grind, as participants in marches throughout the cities of our country, making it appear on TV as though they are legion.

While we work and play, Rome burns. We better take the tine out from our Empire building to fight the enemy that is continuously busy working in the background or we will lose the gains we have made and thus lose our Republic, perhaps sooner than later. The enemy never sleeps and we had better wake up from our comfortable slumbers before its too late.


13 posted on 08/05/2018 2:20:30 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45 - will lethargic Conservatives let him be impeached by Dems? )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Twitter is run by Democratic donors and activists

All hail Captain Obvious!

Everything's going just as David Brock and Media Matters planned after November 2016... like they planned Hillary Clinton's Inaugural.

And they will cling and cling to their illusion of 'power' long after the Grand Parade has passed them by.

If America is to survive, as America, then we cannot allow our social discourse to be limited to the lowest common denominator of political correctness among other nations. The only alternative to free speech and free association is war.

14 posted on 08/05/2018 2:20:35 PM PDT by Prospero (Lex est rex)
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To: eyeamok; MinuteGal

“individuals and businesses that violate it may be prosecuted by the Department of Justice”

We have no Department of Justice; we have Jeff Sessions, in absentia.


15 posted on 08/05/2018 2:23:55 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45 - will lethargic Conservatives let him be impeached by Dems? )
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To: flaglady47; All
Congratulations !

Your well-stated post #13 wins my "Freepie Award for Best Post of the Week".....nay, perhaps even of the month.....nay, perhaps even of the year !

Leni

16 posted on 08/05/2018 3:05:24 PM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

21st Century fascism.


17 posted on 08/05/2018 5:15:58 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Prospero
The only alternative to free speech and free association is war

Or the baby Harp seal cure for our enemies...

18 posted on 08/05/2018 7:41:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Celerity

It’s the old story...whoever controls the media, (regardless of it’s form) Controls the message...and the world.

Corporations, Investors and Hollywood.......and they’re playing for keeps.


19 posted on 08/05/2018 7:46:21 PM PDT by caww
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ping


20 posted on 08/06/2018 7:12:24 AM PDT by bitt (We know not what course others may take, but as for me, Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!)
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