Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The Twitter Censors Are At It Again

A former president of the United States tweets a press release from the desk of the 45th President of the USA and it's taken down on the social media platform. This is like Soviet suppression and it needs to stop. We live in an era where a tweet from a former president can be taken down, and other people can't even copy and copy it without fear of retribution from the government. It's a sad day in American discourse, and we need to wake up to the fact that we are living in a time where the government is trying to silence all forms of free speech. It doesn't work that way, and it doesn't need to work. We need to do something about it, because it's going to get worse and worse, and that's what we're going to have to do to stop it from happening in the first place, or else we'll end up like the Soviet's in the past. -The Future of Free Speech - The Future of the U.S. in the 21st Century - What is it really like in a free speech era? - What does it really mean? - Why is it so important? - How important is it to have freedom of speech and freedom of the press? - Why does it matter? - Who is it important to have it? - Is it better than the government or not? - Will it ever be enough? - And why is it better? - and how can we stop it? ? - and what will it change? - - and why should we care? - will it be enough to have free speech and free speech? - is it more important than it is? - can we actually be free from censorship? - or is it worse than the way we know it can be free? - how much better than other countries can we know what we can get? - what does it actually be? - who will it really be? ? - how will it help us know what s better than it s going to be better than that? - do we really have the best of both worlds? - should we really be allowed to be free of censorship and more? - are we really know the answers to those questions? - etc. - what are we can really have a chance to know the answer to that we can have? and can we really make a better idea of what s possible? - why do we know the difference between truth and facts and facts in the real world? - we ll find out?

00:00:00.000 Well, guys, this is some literally like Soviet level suppression. 0.99

00:00:05.000 You can't even make this crap up anymore. 0.94

00:00:07.000 Sorry, I'm a little bit sweaty. 0.99

00:00:09.000 Florida this time of year is nice. 0.99

00:00:10.000 It's a welcome change from the People's Republic of New York speaking of Soviet era levels of suppression, oppression, taxation and outright stupidity. 0.99

00:00:21.000 But Twitter We're good to go. 0.89

00:00:43.000 All they do is put what he put out, I guess, on a press release and put them out into the ether on Twitter.

00:00:49.000 I don't even think they're actually his accounts.

00:00:51.000 They're not to my knowledge.

00:00:52.000 I don't think he cares.

00:00:54.000 But people who were taking and copying a statement from a president of the United States and putting it out on Twitter, informing others on that platform, what he was saying...

00:01:06.000 Got not just the post taken down, but the actual accounts suspended.

00:01:12.000 Check it out. It's absolutely insane.

00:01:15.000 Okay? I mean, these guys would make Mao, Lenin, Stalin, they would make them proud with this level of suppression.

00:01:25.000 So if you're pretending that we still live in an era of free speech where information is able to be out there, You're wrong, folks.

00:01:33.000 And let's not talk, oh, they're private companies, they can do whatever they want.

00:01:37.000 No, no, no. Guys, you can't get protections from the government, because this is where people get lost in this whole mix, right?

00:01:43.000 You can't get all sorts of liability protections from the government, all sorts of safety valves, all this, that, and the other, and then act as a publisher, deciding what you're...

00:01:56.000 Subscribers, what your followers, what your viewers want.

00:01:59.000 It doesn't work that way, okay?

00:02:01.000 However you want to call the people on a Twitter platform.

00:02:04.000 You can't have the best of both worlds. 0.94

00:02:06.000 Now, if they were truly just a private company with none of those benefits and they opened up the floodgates for the liability for some of the crap that you see out there... 0.95

00:02:15.000 By all means, censor away. 0.84

00:02:17.000 But that's not what we have.

00:02:19.000 And so the whole private company argument just doesn't fly.

00:02:23.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:02:24.000 It doesn't actually work.

00:02:25.000 So remember that when you're talking about what's going on in American discourse today.

00:02:29.000 A former president of the United States, if he puts out a press release, other people can't even...

00:02:37.000 Literally push out that same release.

00:02:39.000 This isn't a kafifi tweet at 4am.

00:02:42.000 This is a press release from the desk of the 45th President of the United States.

00:02:46.000 And Twitter deems that, so sensitive and so possibly inflammatory, without actually looking at the content or anything that it's in there, That they suspended the accounts of people who are just putting factual and accurate information out into the ether for other people to make up their own mind.

00:03:04.000 Remember that, folks. It's gonna get worse, and it's gonna get really scary unless we actually do something about this crap. 0.97

Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - May 10, 2021

The Twitter Censors Are At It Again

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