{"id":64376,"date":"2022-12-05T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64376"},"modified":"2022-12-05T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:24:17","slug":"the-twitter-papers-reveal-the-totalitarians-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64376","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Twitter Papers\u2019 Reveal the Totalitarians Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u2018Twitter Papers\u2019 Reveal the Totalitarians Among Us<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I admit to being skeptical of Elon Musk as a free speech hero. He has moved from one US government-subsidized business to another on his path to becoming the world\u2019s richest person. But there is no denying that his release of the \u201cTwitter Papers\u201d this past weekend, which blew the lid off government manipulation of social media, has been a huge victory for those of us who value the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

The release, in coordination with truly independent journalist Matt Taibbi, demonstrated indisputably how politicians and representatives of \u201cofficial Washington\u201d pressed the teams that were then in charge of censorship at Twitter to remove Tweets and even ban accounts that were guilty of nothing beyond posting something the power-brokers did not want the general public to read. Let\u2019s not forget that many of those demanding Twitter censorship were US government officials who had taken an oath to the US Constitution and its First Amendment.<\/p>\n

It is important to understand that both US political parties were involved in pushing Twitter to censor information they didn\u2019t like. There is plenty of corruption to go around. However, as the Twitter Papers demonstrated, vastly more Tweets were censored at the demand of Democratic Party politicians simply because Twitter employees on the censorship team were overwhelmingly Democratic Party supporters.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most damning piece of evidence released in this first installment of the Twitter Papers was a series of Tweets from the Biden 2020 campaign to its contact inside Twitter asking that the social media censor them. An internal Twitter document shows that the censor team \u201chandled these,\u201d meaning censored them.
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The \u2018Twitter Papers\u2019 Reveal the Totalitarians Among Us I admit to being skeptical of Elon Musk as a free speech hero. He has moved from one US government-subsidized business to another on his path to becoming the world\u2019s richest person. But there is no denying that his release of the \u201cTwitter Papers\u201d this past weekend, […]<\/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":[120,5096,7609,3733,692,1213,819,865],"class_list":["post-64376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-elon-musk","tag-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-ron-paul","tag-totalitarianism","tag-twitter","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64376","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=64376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64377,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64376\/revisions\/64377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}