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James Woods
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The communications revealed that a political party was able to successfully suppress a private citizens' speech on Twitter for posting content that could be politically damaging for the Democrat presidential nominee at the time of a presidential election.
The email posted by Taibbi showed that a Twitter employee emailed a co-worker with suspension requests, writing: "An additional report from DNC." Listed were two tweets, including one by Woods.
Woods tweeted on October 24, 2020, a meme of Hunter Biden after the Hunter Biden laptop story broke that showed a photo of Hunter apparently taking drugs and engaging in a sexual act.
The photo was accompanied by a parody of a campaign ad that said, "I'm on Team Toe."
Woods tweeted, "Feets, don't fail me now."
The Biden campaign team requested certain accounts be suspended as well, another email shows.
The Hunter Biden laptop story, first reported by the New York Post's Miranda Devine and Emma-Jo Morris (now Breitbart News's politics editor), broke just weeks before the 2020 presidential election but was suppressed by social media. The story revealed emails describing shady business dealings with foreign actors, as well as compromising photos of Biden engaged in sexual acts. Some emails found on the laptop suggested that Joe Biden, the Democrat presidential nominee, was involved in some of the business dealings.
Twitter suspended the New York Post's Twitter account and suppressed tweets linking to the story — some apparently at the behest of the DNC.
Where does it say these platforms are 'non-partisan'? I don't post to any of them, I don't like their strangle hold on social interaction, and I sure as heck don't trust Elon, but I don't own them and so I don't get a say in how they operate.
This to me is similar to the religious owners of the cake shop who would not make a gay cake. It is their shop and they can turn away anyone they wish. Only an ignoramus would think that you could 'force' the cake shop to do something against their will.
If the CIA/NSA/FBI own and/or operate these social platforms then who am I to dictate to them what I can do or say in their shop?
Our problem is the lack of a free press in general. If truth were not suppressed by media then people would not need to fight over what they believe are free-speech platforms created by the very institutions that have killed free speech.