{"id":58827,"date":"2021-07-30T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58827"},"modified":"2021-07-30T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:36:15","slug":"the-shadow-state-twitter-suspends-commentator-for-criticizing-vaccine-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58827","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow State: Twitter Suspends Commentator for Criticizing Vaccine Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Shadow State: Twitter Suspends Commentator for Criticizing Vaccine Policies<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\"Twitter<\/a>I\u00a0recently discussed<\/a>\u00a0how the Biden Administration was actively encouraging corporations to limit speech and impose vaccine mandates as a type of shadow state. Rather than take such actions directly ( and face both legal and political challenges), the Administration is relying on its close alliance with Big Tech and other companies to carry out such tasks. That surrogate relationship is particularly clear in the expanding censorship program carried out by Twitter, Facebook and other companies. Twitter\u2019s action against political commentator Dave Rubin is an example of how these companies are now dispensing with any pretense in actively barring criticism of government policies and viewpoints.<\/p>\n

Rubin was locked out under the common \u201cmisinformation\u201d claim by Twitter. However, his tweet was an opinion based on demonstrably true facts. One can certainly disagree with the conclusion but this is an example of core political speech being curtailed by a company with a long history of biased censorship, including the\u00a0barring of discussions involving Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a>\u00a0before the election.\u00a0 With a new election looming, these companies appear to be ramping up their censorship efforts.<\/p>\n

In his tweet, Rubin stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want a federal vaccine mandate for\u00a0vaccines<\/a>\u00a0which are clearly not working as promised just weeks ago. People are getting and transmitting Covid despite vax. Plus now they\u2019re prepping us for booster shots. A sane society would take a pause. We do not live in a sane society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even President Biden\u00a0admitted yesterday<\/a>\u00a0that he was wrong weeks ago when he assured people that if they took the vaccine, they would not be at risk for the variants and could dispense with their masks. There are breakthrough cases that have taken many officials by surprise. It is also true that there is now talk of likely booster shots.<\/p>\n

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The Shadow State: Twitter Suspends Commentator for Criticizing Vaccine Policies I\u00a0recently discussed\u00a0how the Biden Administration was actively encouraging corporations to limit speech and impose vaccine mandates as a type of shadow state. Rather than take such actions directly ( and face both legal and political challenges), the Administration is relying on its close alliance with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,29341,28781,607,31562,819,843,1698],"class_list":["post-58827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-covid","tag-jonathan-turley","tag-pandemic","tag-shadow-state","tag-twitter","tag-us-government","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58828,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58827\/revisions\/58828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}