{"id":65009,"date":"2023-02-13T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65009"},"modified":"2023-02-13T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:30:13","slug":"the-pain-of-listening-to-twitter-censorship-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65009","title":{"rendered":"The Pain of Listening To Twitter Censorship Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naomiwolf.substack.com\/p\/the-pain-of-listening-to-twitter\">The Pain of Listening To Twitter Censorship Testimony<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>Nasty, Ill-Dressed Technocrats, I Want My Life Back<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>As I type, I am undergoing the excruciating experience of listening to C-SPAN, which is airing \u201cTwitter\u2019s Response to Hunter Biden Laptop Story.\u201d The larger issue is: who censored Twitter, and why, and whether there was illegal collusion (there was) between Twitter and the US government.<\/p>\n<p>So I finally am seeing them \u2014 up close, in real life, in person. I am finally able to look at the faces of the heretofore faceless technocrats who took it upon themselves to try to destroy my life and ruin my name.<\/p>\n<p>I am witnessing, as I see them seated primly in rows in a Congressional hearing room, the very faces \u2014 the somber, ill-cut but costly blue suits, the bad wire-rimmed glasses, the judgmental expressions \u2014 of those who were personally responsible for the misery, trauma, reputational damage, shattered dreams, and loss of income, in my one life, over the course of last two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>Here at last are the very people who took it upon themselves, or who oversaw their colleagues, to single me out, to collude with the White House, and with Carol Crawford of CDC, and with DHS perhaps, to suspend me \u2014 following an accurate tweet of mine that warned women of menstrual harms following mRNA injection.<\/p>\n<p>The positions of these people, the views of them \u2014 their self-regarding, self-satisfied, smug certainty that their rightness is the only rightness that could ever be \u2014 do not remind me of the testimony or views of actual Americans. They remind me rather of the affect of functionaries in a Stalinist show trial, or of the nameless bureaucrats in Kafka\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Trial<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pain of Listening To Twitter Censorship Testimony Nasty, Ill-Dressed Technocrats, I Want My Life Back As I type, I am undergoing the excruciating experience of listening to C-SPAN, which is airing \u201cTwitter\u2019s Response to Hunter Biden Laptop Story.\u201d The larger issue is: who censored Twitter, and why, and whether there was illegal collusion (there [&hellip;]<\/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":[120,2299,29341,1426,33684,819,33536],"class_list":["post-65009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-control","tag-covid","tag-misinformation","tag-naomi-wolf","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65009","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=65009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65010,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65009\/revisions\/65010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}