Twitter’s exile of President Trump is just the beginning.
The social-media site will expand its effort to control political conversation by censoring conservatives, CEO Jack Dorsey said in a secretly recorded conversation that Project Veritas released on Thursday.
Though Dorsey didn’t say the site will target conservatives, the gist of his remarks certainly suggest that an all-out attack on the Right is coming.
On Monday, Twitter announced that it had removed 70,000 accounts connected to the Q-Anon conspiracy theory, which posits that Trump is waging a secret war against Satan-worshipping cannibals who traffic children for sex.
Twitter followed other social-media sites in banning Trump last week.
The obvious question: When will Dorsey and his army of Big Tech worker bees swarm mainstream conservatives and take them off the site?
Twitter moderators permit — which means they encourage — leftist hate tweets that openly call for violence against the president and his supporters.
Undercover Recording
“You should always feel free to express yourself in whatever format manifestation feels right,” Dorsey disingenuously said. But feeling free to express oneself only applies to some Twitter users, apparently:
We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration.
So Twitter workers must be ready to cancel conservatives after the Biden Regime takes power. “We have to expect that,” Dorsey said. “We have to be ready for that.”
Translation: Hard-hitting conservative commentators should prepare for deplatforming.
Dorsey’s remarks were larded with the buzzwords and dog whistles typical of the Big-Tech generation.
“So, the focus is certainly on this account [@realDonaldTrump] and how it ties to real-world violence,” he said. “But also, we need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this is going away anytime soon.”
So, again, the purge will expand beyond Q-anon to include anyone the social-justice warriors at Twitter don’t like.
The moves that we’re making today around Q-anon, for instance, is one such example of a broader approach that we should be looking at and going deeper on.… So the team has a lot of work and a lot of focus on this particular issue, but we also need to give them the space and the support to focus on the much bigger picture because it is not going away.
And Twitter will guide and “protect” the “conversation,” lest the natives get restless:
You know, the U.S. is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every single day, and our role is to protect the integrity of that conversation and do what we can to make sure that no one is being harmed based off that. And that is the focus. And that is the color we want to provide.
Twitter Mob Attacks Innocent Firefighter
If that’s the “focus,” the hirsute tech tycoon had better get to work.
A Twitter mob falsely identified a retired firefighter in Chicago as the retired firefighter who tossed a fire extinguisher at a cop during last week’s mostly-peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol (warning: explicit language).
Of course, Twitter isn’t really worried about violence given what it has allowed in the past. In a deleted tweet that did not earn a suspension, ABC political director Rick Klein advocated “cleansing” the country of Trump voters.
Disgraced CNN commentator Reza Aslan, fired for his over-the-top remarks about Trump, tweeted that Trump supporters must be “eradicated.”
“The President is a white nationalist terror leader. His supporters — ALL OF THEM — are by definition white nationalist terror supporters,” he wrote:
The MAGA hat is a KKK hood. And this evil, racist scourge must be eradicated from society.
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign posted a video of Black Lives Matter goons threatening him, Twitter locked his account. The video, its spokesman said with a straight face, violated its rules against posting violent content.
H/T: HotAir.com
