Here is the one hundred nineteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is for the first time, is a company: Twitter. They are so honored for the Republican way they are censoring people to protect a twat-grabbing twit.
Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that it’s illegal for Donald Trump to block anyone on Twitter, because he uses his account to make presidential announcements to the public. Trump still has yet to abide by this court order. Instead, immediately after this ruling, Twitter began temporarily suspending the accounts of various prominent critics of Donald Trump. Just now, we were informed that Palmer Report has also been temporarily suspended from Twitter.
We’ve been informed that we can’t tweet, retweet, comment, reply, or in any way communicate with our 169,000 followers until the suspension ends. This is a particularly egregious move on Twitter’s part, as it may give our Twitter followers the false impression that we’ve ceased functioning as a news publication altogether, or that we’ve vanished, which is injurious to both us and our audience.
For the record, the tweet we’ve been suspended for is clearly not in violation of any Twitter rules or policies. In the several past instances in which Trump supporters have mass-reported our tweets in a coordinated effort at getting us suspended, Twitter has notified us each time that we were not in violation of any rules. The only thing that’s changed here is the judge’s ruling against Trump in a Twitter related matter. It’s clear that as a result of the judge’s ruling, Twitter is now taking steps to protect Trump and silence his critics. This comes even as Twitter continues to refuse to suspend Trump for his numerous blatant violations of its policies. Again, Trump is still refusing to abide by the judge’s ruling, even as Twitter is now inexplicably racing to protect Trump from the judge’s ruling… [emphasis added]
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I rarely tweet, but after publishing this I plan to tweet a link to this article. After that, I shall not tweet again as long as Twitter goose steps with the Republican Reich with so much dishonor that they warranted this parade.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
VOTE BLUE!!
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I read about this on the Palmer Report (as I get it in my personal email box every day), and am (not) stunned by this news. I don’t tweet, but it sounds like dt is doing everything he wants, and being protected..while everyone else is getting the shaft who criticizes this id…wth??? What’s next??? Getting arrested?
Not good. At.All.
Considering all the evil Republican corporations out there, this is indeed a distinction – of infamy. OK, I’ll get onto the next nugget.
For all the chilren being separated from their parents at the border, and especially for the almost 1500 who are missing –
RESIST AND PERSIST !!!
The Orange Ogre is known also as “Twitler” for a reason!
I really like to know what other Drumpf critics were suspended (“Twitter began temporarily suspending the accounts of various prominent critics of Donald Trump.”) and the reasons that were given to suspend them.
Last year The U.S. government pressured Twitter to identify a Trump critic, but Twitter filed a suit and the White House dropped it. Lately Twitter also suspended accounts from the far right, but in the UK to be precise, and did the same for Drumpf ally Roger Stone. Whatever could have moved them to turn on their heels and now suspend Drumpf critics without reason? Has Drumpf threatened to go to Facebook?
Why don’t you use the contact address on his website top ask him? I’ve considered him a reliable source for years.
The war on “fake news” continues aided and abetted by Twitter. One has to wonder what is in it for Twitter . . . $$$?
This appears to be an assault on the first amendment . . . another step towards total fascism.
So much for the US being a nation of laws when the head of state, Drumpf, can ignore or twist the laws he does not like.
I am not on Twitter (I am not much of a social media person) and do not plan to join, especially now that their lack of regard for their own rules is in full view.
$$$ … and keeping his worthless nether portion out of lockup a little longer.
Thanks all. Hugs. Apparently the judge that ruled Trump can’t block suggested this as an alternative.