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I've posted too much proof that "Democrats" in high places to include the White House and the FBI coordinate with social media giants to silence citizens for you to be this ignorant

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You have posted no such proof.

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I am sure that it's just a coincidence that all of the "misinformation" (free speech) that the FBI wing of the "Democrat" party had banned, helped "Democrats" politically

Right

FBI Paid Twitter $3.4 Million to Ban Accounts for So-Called Misnfo

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/fbi-paid-twitter-3-4-million-to-ban-accounts-for-misinformation/

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The face of far left "the Russians are coming" hoax and hysteria, hates real journalists even more than he hates Russian cartoons.

This is George Orwell stuff, and you have been trained to LIKE it.

Adam Schiff’s Office Asked Twitter To Ban Investigative Journalist, Docs Show

The office of California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff asked Twitter to ban investigative journalist Paul Sperry, according to documents published Tuesday by veteran journalist Matt Taibbi.

Schiff’s office emailed Twitter analysis from the House Intelligence Committee related to “alleged harassment from Qanon conspiracists” against a Schiff staffer, according to an email tweeted by Taibbi as part of the latest “Twitter Files” reporting.

More: https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/03/adam-schiff-twitter-files-paul-sperry/

GASP!!!!! Adam Schiff emailed Twitter, complaining about harassment of one of his staffers!!!! OH MY G-D!!!!

That Stalinist Elitist Communist!!!!!
Not only should he NOT have emailed Twitter... He should have joined IN the harassment!!!! Toughen up the staffer!!!

What was he thinking???


Damn Stalinist Elitist Communist

Emailed as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee in his official capacity, to silence a journalist who had criticized him

You think that's a laugh riot

Proving once and for all that you're not a bright one either

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Back to the topic, how "Democrats" fight hard for censorship

From The Hill: "Democrat" darling Adam Schiff went too far even for the radical leftists that were running Twitter

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‘We don’t do this’: Even Twitter’s censors rejected Adam Schiff’s censorship request

“We don’t do this.” That response from Twitter to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is a singular indictment, coming at the height of Twitter’s censorship operations. Apparently, there were some things that even Twitter’s censors refused to do.

One of those things was silencing critics of Schiff and his House committee.

In the latest tranche of “Twitter Files,” journalist Matt Taibbi revealed that Twitter balked at Schiff’s demand that Twitter suspend an array of posters or label their content as “misinformation” and “reduce the visibility” of them. Among those who Schiff secretly tried to censor was New York Post columnist Paul Sperry.

Sperry drew Schiff’s ire by writing about a conversation allegedly overheard by one of his sources. Sperry’s article, which appeared in RealClearInvestigations, cited two sources as overhearing two White House staffers discussing how to remove newly-elected President Trump from office. The article raised the possibility of bias on the part of an alleged key player in launching the first Trump impeachment, CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella. The sources reportedly said that Ciaramella was in a conversation with Sean Misko, a holdover from the Obama administration who later joined Schiff’s staff. The conversation — in Sperry’s words — showed that “just days after [Trump] was sworn in they were already trying to get rid of him.”

Rather than simply refute the allegation, Schiff wanted Sperry and other critics silenced. His office reportedly laid out steps to cleanse Twitter of their criticism, including an instruction to “remove any and all content about Mr. Misko and other Committee staff from its service — to include quotes, retweets, and reactions to that content.”

The date of Schiff’s non-public letter in November 2020 is notable: Earlier that year, I wrote a column for The Hill criticizing Schiff for pushing for censorship of misinformation in a letter that he sent to social media companies. His office promptly objected to the very suggestion that Schiff supported censorship.

We now know Schiff was actively seeking to censor specific critics on social media. These likely were viewed as more than “requests” since Schiff was sending public letters threatening possible legislative action against these same companies. He wanted his critics silenced on social media. After all, criticizing his investigations or staff must, by definition, be misinformation — right?

His office seems to have indicated they knew Twitter was using shadowing-banning or other techniques to suppress certain disfavored writers. In the letter, his staff asked Twitter to “label and reduce the visibility of any content.”

Twitter, however, drew the line with Schiff; one of its employees simply wrote, “no, this isn’t feasible/we don’t do this.”

More: https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3800380-we-dont-do-this-even-twitters-censors-rejected-adam-schiffs-censorship-request/

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You have posted no such proof.

You are willfully blind and stupid, I'm not much better for willingly engaging with you

One example of dozens:

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I am sure that it's just a coincidence that all of the "misinformation" (free speech) that the FBI wing of the "Democrat" party had banned, helped "Democrats" politically

Right

FBI Paid Twitter $3.4 Million to Ban Accounts for So-Called Misnfo

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/fbi-paid-twitter-3-4-million-to-ban-accounts-for-misinformation/

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Adam Schiff’s Office Asked Twitter To Ban Investigative Journalist, Docs Show

The office of California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff asked Twitter to ban investigative journalist Paul Sperry, according to documents published Tuesday by veteran journalist Matt Taibbi.

Schiff’s office emailed Twitter analysis from the House Intelligence Committee related to “alleged harassment from Qanon conspiracists” against a Schiff staffer, according to an email tweeted by Taibbi as part of the latest “Twitter Files” reporting.

More: https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/03/adam-schiff-twitter-files-paul-sperry/

GASP!!!!! Adam Schiff emailed Twitter, complaining about harassment of one of his staffers!!!! OH MY G-D!!!!

That Stalinist Elitist Communist!!!!!
Not only should he NOT have emailed Twitter... He should have joined IN the harassment!!!! Toughen up the staffer!!!

What was he thinking???


Damn Stalinist Elitist Communist

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Not even close to the FBI PAYING Twitter to ban anyone.

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Not even close to the FBI PAYING Twitter to ban anyone.

More lies, and as always just mindless howling with no citation.

Only leftist trash and narcissistic psychopaths assert that it is constitutionally legitimate for the FBI arm of the "Democrat" party to censor speech

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In an email to a Twitter lawyer in February 2021, an unidentified Twitter employee wrote that the company had received over $3.4 million from the FBI since October 2019 as reimbursement for Twitter’s processing of legal requests for user information. Federal law allows companies to seek compensation for complying with government requests for stored records.

That is not evidence that the FBI paid Twitter to “censor” or “suppress” content on the social media platform, as several conservative figures and politicians have claimed or suggested since the email was made public in December.

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MJ, I don't think you can prove he actually reads any of it, just gets worked up over the headlines.

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FBI paid Twitter $3.4M for doing its dirty work on users, damning email shows

The FBI paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million of taxpayer cash to ban accounts largely linked to conservative voices and target so-called “foreign influence” operations, the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” revealed on Monday.

In an email dated Feb. 10, 2021, an unidentified Twitter employee told then-deputy general counsel Jim Baker and then-general counsel Sean Edgett that “we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!”

The email, published by independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, explained that Twitter’s Safety, Content & Law Enforcement (SCALE) division had instituted a “reimbursement program” in exchange for devoting staff hours to “processing requests from the FBI.”

The message added that Twitter had opted not to exercise its right of reimbursement prior to October 2019, though it did not say why.

The email notes that the funds will be used by Twitter on “[law enforcement]-related projects” including “LE training, tooling, etc.”

The reports by Shellenberger and fellow independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, have revealed extensive collaboration and employee overlap between Twitter and the FBI, who Taibbi reported last week treated the social media company as a “subsidiary” and repeatedly reported supposed “misinformation.”

In the sixth installment of the Twitter Files, published Friday, Taibbi revealed that the bureau was so aggressive in sending Twitter “possible violative content” to review that an employee described one set of materials as a “monumental undertaking” that required several colleagues to pitch in and help.

On Monday, Shellenberger reported that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth to dismiss The Post’s bombshell October 2020 report on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation.

The files reveal the FBI could communicate with top Twitter executives through multiple channels, including email accounts and specially built encrypted portals.

The bureau would often send the company lists of users they wanted investigated for terms of use violations.

In some cases, Shellenberger noted, Twitter would probe cases presented by the bureau but come up empty, not finding evidence of a foreign influence campaign.

“[W]e haven’t yet identified activity that we’d typically refer to you (or even flag as interesting in the foreign influence context),” Roth informed FBI San Francisco Special Agent Elvis Chan in one email from May 31, 2020.

The FBI would also flag media articles on alleged foreign influence campaigns that Twitter would have to look into and debunk, “repeatedly” reporting “very little Russian activity,” according to Shellenberger.

“Time and again, FBI asks Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responds that they aren’t finding anything worth reporting,” Shellenberger writes.

The FBI also made repeated requests for internal data from Twitter that the social media company refused to send over, citing privacy concerns.

As recently as August 2022, Twitter continued to work with the FBI, which pressured the company to disclose more sensitive information.

Baker and Edgett were fired after billionaire Elon Musk bought the social network in October.

(More at the linked site)

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The real source for the reporting is Twitter's own records.

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"Jim, FYI, in 2019 SCALE instituted a reimbursement program for our legal process response from the FBI. Prior to the start of the program, Twitter chose not to collect under the statutory right of reimbursement for the time spent processing the requests from the FBI.

I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019! This money is used by LP for things like the TTR and other LE-related projects (LE training, tooling, etc.)"