Dr Tom Woods has jumped into the Twitter Files landscape. His focus is on how Twitter became subordinate to the whims of the Federal Government.
Journalist Matt Taibbi just released the next installment of the Twitter Files, this one showing the process by which Twitter became a lackey of the feds.
It began in 2017, when Democrats, stinging from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat, claimed a Russian conspiracy had exploited social media platforms to spread misinformation and undermine “democracy.”
Of course, this is the attack de jour by the Democrats. Anytime they do not get their way, the result is “undermining democracy.” I wonder how long it will take before their own followers start calling them out on this.
Internal documents reveal that Twitter executives did not believe this was much of an issue on their platform, apart from a handful of accounts they terminated.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia proceeded to attack Twitter, claiming that its report on the subject was “frankly inadequate on every level.” The public-relations fallout was severe, since, of course, our major media institutions, being the apologists for the regime that they are, simply parroted the Democrats’ line about a compromised Twitter.
None of this was true and the politicians leading the charge against Twitter knew it. It did not matter. Lying to the public is so ingrained in these people along with their belief that the public accepted everything what they said as fact that they came to believe their own lies. Witness Hillary Clinton’s belief that it was her turn to be President. When that did not happen, it had to be because the system had been compromised.
Of course, the system was compromised. We The People had stepped up and said we do not like what is going on is Washington. We want new ideas and people who will represent us.
The politicians ignored We The People and ratcheted up the public campaign against Twitter.
So Twitter launched a “Russia Task Force” to examine the issue more closely. That task force likewise found little to nothing to speak of, so the public-relations problem intensified.
Democrats insisted there was a Russia disinformation problem at Twitter, even though exhaustive examinations of these claims had come up with all but nothing.
Taibbi gives the details of how Twitter eventually succumbed to the media and political mob and did its bidding — including jumping onto the Russia hysteria bandwagon and closing down accounts that were annoying to the U.S. regime.
According to Taibbi, the documents show that “the Russian cyber-threat was essentially conjured into being, with political and media pressure serving as the engine inflating something Twitter believed was negligible and uncoordinated to massive dimensions.”
He concludes, “Once Twitter began rolling over for Congress in 2017, the ending was inevitable: formal surrender to the intelligence community on content moderation.”
And this is exactly what happened. Conservative voices began to be downgraded and were eventually silenced. Only approved ideas and ideologies were permitted unfettered access to the platform. And it was not only Twitter where this happened. Other social media sites came under the thumb of our intelligence community in Washington.
This is our world, ladies and gentlemen. The political and media classes, along with the intelligence agencies, make up phony stories that serve their interests, and then punish nonbelievers (and to add insult to injury, they call us the deceivers!).
There may not be a whole lot that one person can do about this. However, each of us individually can have an impact. It may be small but such efforts can accumulate a bigger impact over time. Is the problem that Kevin McCarthy is having getting elected Speaker of the House evidence of a growing impact by people who believe in freedom and liberty? Keep those cards and letters flowing to the corrupt establishment in Washington.