Tucker looks at the ‘legacy media’s’ response to ‘the Twitter files’ released last Friday. Expectedly, they’re not pleased. Highlights include:
“The main thing that we learned on Friday night, last Friday night, with the release of those previously undisclosed documents from Twitter is not that social media companies censor conservatives, obviously we knew that. No one’s surprised to have it confirmed, no one denied it in the first place. No, what we learned on Friday is that big tech works aggressively and in secret with government agencies to subvert the outcome of what the rest of us assumed were free and fair elections. During the 2020 election, Twitter did this with the help of the FBI, committing censorship on behalf of one candidate while working to hurt the other candidate.”
“It is hard to imagine a more brazen attack on our democracy than this. This is not how our system is supposed to work. In fact, it’s illegal. What Twitter did is a violation of the First Amendment, as well as of established campaign finance law. They never declared those contributions to the Biden campaign, that’s a crime.”
“Thanks to ‘the Twitter files’ revealed on Friday night, we know the First Amendment has been violated more profoundly than at any time in our lives. Miranda Devine of the New York Post has just reported the FBI met ‘weekly with Twitter executives in the months before the 2020 election’ and in those meetings the FBI specifically warned about ‘hack and leak’ operations by ‘state actors’ that would involve Hunter Biden and would ‘likely come out in October’. We know that because it appeared in a sworn deposition from Twitter’s former chief censor.”
“It wasn’t just Twitter, by the way. The FBI was holding similar meetings with Facebook.”
“So, this is a ‘stop the presses’ story. The FBI is the largest and most powerful domestic law enforcement agency in the world. It can’t become a secret police force. If it does, this is no longer a free country and it’s no better than, say, Russia under Putin, or any authoritarian state. It is an authoritarian state by definition if the largest domestic law enforcement agency starts to play in domestic politics.”
“The distinction between ‘misinformation’ and lying is that misinformation can be true. It doesn’t have to be untrue to be censored. So, used to be, truth is a defense, if you’re telling the truth you can say it. Not anymore. With ‘mis’ and ‘disinformation’, if I don’t like it if I’m in power, I can censor you.”
“This is a violation of the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights, to the centerpiece of our Constitution, and it’s happening constantly. States reported posts they didn’t like, and CISA, an arm of DHS, guys with guns, got Twitter to censor it. Kentucky’s Secretary of State did this all the time. The documents show that. So did Colorado’s. In fact, Colorado reported several political parody accounts to DHS, which then alerted Twitter, and all of them were pulled off.”
“This isn’t just offensive. This is illegal. This is a crime, a very serious crime, a crime against our democracy, not trespassing in the Capitol or gazing upon Nancy Pelosi’s desk. Influencing the outcome of elections, it’s beyond belief, it’s also very common, much more common than anyone thought.”
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