The big picture takeaways from "The Twitter Files 5" releases today.
The information confirms everything Conservatives have been saying for years about big tech censorship, and about Trump's ban in particular.
Today’s installment 5 of The Twitter Files (TTF) was released by Bari Weiss. Notably she is definitely anti-Trump, and apparently left wing. So as with Matt Taibbi, no honest person can claim that there is any right wing bias to the thread. The release dealt with the permanent suspension of Trump’s account on January 8, 2021. The high points:
Multiple Twitter employees stated that Trump did not actually break Twitter’s terms of service. Ultimately this did not stop his account from being “permanently” banned.
A Chinese employee who had experienced CCP censorship chimed in against banning Trump, saying “Maybe because I am from China I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation.” His or her opinion is quickly rejected.
Other employees chime in with the left wing mantra “threat to our democracy”. Of course the United States is a Constitutional Republic, and NOT a democracy.
No surprise, the Twitter employee comments range from very emotional to completely unhinged. A group of them band together to try to get top management to ban Trump from Twitter permanently.
One of the employees stating internally that Trump did not violate the terms of service is specifically noted by Bari Weiss. “I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” wrote Anika Navaroli, a Twitter policy official. “I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no vios”—or violations—“for the DJT one.”
When Anika Navaroli was in front of the sham January 6 committee this year, however, her story changed considerably. “For months I had been begging and anticipating and attempting to raise the reality that if nothing—if we made no intervention into what I saw occurring, people were going to die.” This appears to be a clear case of lying to Congress, and my inference is that she was at least coached if not pressured to lie about what she actually said internally before Trump was banned.
Bari Weiss goes on to note tweets from various left wing world “leaders” like the Iranian Ayatollah who had clear incitements to violence and/or threats against others were left up by Twitter. Even in cases where individual tweets were removed, the accounts that made the direct threats were not suspended/banned. So Trump was absolutely treated differently.
Vajajay Gadde appears to have been the one who triggered the final push to ban Trump: Less than 90 minutes after Twitter employees had determined that Trump’s tweets were not in violation of Twitter policy, Vijaya Gadde—Twitter’s Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust—asked whether it could, in fact, be “coded incitement to further violence.”
From there the “scaled enforcement team” quickly went into the aforementioned completely unhinged territory: Members of that team came to “view him as the leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence/deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitler and on that basis and on the totality of his Tweets, he should be de-platformed.” The irony here is the same as with all left wing calls to censorship. They are acting as full on fascists, but pointing the finger at those who they’re censoring as the fascists.
The completely unhinged employees ramp things up to pressure upper management to ban Trump. This includes the most ridiculous Nazi comparison yet: “Multiple tweeps [Twitter employees] have quoted the Banality of Evil suggesting that people implementing our policies are like Nazis following orders” Meaning that any Twitter employees following actual existing Twitter policies, which Trump didn’t even violate, are Nazis following orders from Hitler. So basically unless Trump is banned, Twitter is a Nazi supporting company.
Pedophile Yoel Roth, who many have commented appears to have been the real head of Twitter, also seems to be the one who drove the final push to ban Trump. Within an hour, Twitter announces Trump’s ban.
The cabal of far left wing Twitter employees, many of whom are still “wet behind the ears”, and 99+% of which have no fucking clue what this country is about, and a similar % have no useful real world skills of any kind and as such are truly unaccomplished and unremarkable, then proceed to cheer and pat themselves on the back for the full on fascism they just engaged in.
The very next day after banning Trump, this same group of left wing nobodies sets out to ramp up censorship of anything related to Corona that does not support the left wing narrative from little fascist Fauci and the rest of his ilk. This just proves yet again that left wingers will not stop until they are stopped. They treat any success at advancing their agenda as a cue to continue further, which of course means this country comes closer to the brink of complete destruction.
Musk’s own tweets about the situation are priceless:
I was never a Twitter user until Musk took over. I knew it was yet another left wing operation actively engaged in censoring those on the right. In a very short period of time Musk has made huge changes. There’s a good ways to go to get rid of all the left wing bias, whether because of hard coded algorithms or because of holdover left wing employees, but so far Musk has Twitter on the right track for the most part.