Article Source: The Censorship of Free Speech in America – UncoverDC
We are witnessing censorship on a level never before seen in the United States of America. After suspending President Donald J. Trump’s Facebook page indefinitely on Thursday, on Friday, Twitter permanently suspended the president’s account due to “the risk of further incitement of violence.”
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
In explaining its suspension of the president’s account, Twitter stated it warned on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. The social media giant apparently reached their decision on Friday after the president tweeted, “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” Then a short time later, he tweeted he would not be attending the Inauguration on January 20th.
President Trump’s Twitter suspension is the latest in a new wave of extraordinary censorship that began on Friday with the deletion by Facebook of Brandon Straka‘s #WalkAway Campaign page from its site. Straka, who has amassed over half a million followers on his page, indicated that his Facebook group and his personal account were shut down Friday morning. He said, “Over half a million people in #WalkAway with hundreds of thousands of testimonial videos and stories is GONE.” Along with removing the page, Facebook removed the page of every member of the conservative campaign’s team.
One of those team members is our very own Editor-In-Chief Tracy Beanz, who was an admin on Straka’s #WalkAway page on the Zuckerberg platform. Not only was Tracy’s Facebook page removed, but as the day went on, her Twitter account was suspended without warning for supposed “platform manipulation and spam.”
Editor in Chief of UncoverDC @tracybeanz has been banned from Twitter for supposed “platform manipulation and spam”. You’ll find her (and us) on Parler and CloutHub with the same name. And always please go directly to https://t.co/BUJl8BytZB pic.twitter.com/q7DDYLNb79
— UncoverDC (@UncoverDC) January 8, 2021
In what some are labeling as a “Qanon purge,” Twitter also permanently suspended the accounts of General Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, and several high-profile accounts that supported the President, and the list is growing.
Major Pro-Trump accounts falling fast.@SidneyPowell1@GenFlynn@MajorPatriot@CodeMonkeyZ@prayingmedic@anonpatriotq @tracybeanz
— ClentDC 💰™ // Fugazi Placebo (@clentdc) January 8, 2021
The deletion of the accounts by the big tech oligarchy appears to indicate they are expanding their censorship to include those who speak up about alleged election irregularities and voter fraud during the Nov. 3 election.
Conservative commentator Dan Bongino, instead of anticipating when Twitter might make its move to suspend his account, called it quits Friday and announced he is completely moving to Parler, a popular and thriving Twitter alternative of which he is an investor. On Thursday, Sean Hannity announced that President Trump had joined Parler, which might explain why Google Play just decided to suspend Parler from its app store.
JUST IN: Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store pic.twitter.com/Nyv59LoNWh
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) January 9, 2021
Apple is not far behind, indicating that if Parler did not impose moderation on their free speech platform within 24 hours, they would be banned…