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Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Press Secretary For Tweet Critical of Mail-in Voting
Gidley’s suspension comes as reports surface from around the U.S. detailing how ballots are being found in dumpsters, ditches and bushes …
On the same day Jack Dorsey was subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee over the handling of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, Twitter suspended the account of Trump campaign National Press Secretary, Hogan Gidley, for a tweet critical of mail-in voting.
This latest act of information gatekeeping and speech control by Twitter came after Gidley shared his experience with receiving a ballot through the mail that was addressed to a former tenant who lived at the same address almost a decade ago.
The tweet read:
“Got ‘my’…uh wait…no… ‘Daniel’s’ ballot in the mail?!? Who is that? Apparently it’s a former tenant who hasn’t lived in the unit for 8 YEARS!!! But yeah, sure…the mainstream media is correct…unsolicited vote-by-mail is ‘totally safe.’”
According to Twitter, the ban was issued over “violating our rules against posting misleading information about voting.”
After having his account restored, Trump’s press sec. labeled the move as “censorship” while charging big tech companies of having a clear bias against truth speaking conservatives.
“This censorship is insanity. We must continue to expose and fight Big Tech’s clear bias against conservatives who speak the truth,” he tweeted.
Gidley’s suspension comes as reports surface from around the U.S. detailing how ballots are being found in dumpsters, ditches and bushes, leading many to question the efficiency and safety of the vote-by-mail process.
Reports are also detailing how ballots are being stolen directly from mailboxes, as was recently the case in Nampa, Idaho
The suspension also comes a week after White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had her Twitter account locked after sharing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden story detailing how Hunter had leveraged his father’s position of U.S. Vice President to benefit his foreign business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Meanwhile, the New York Post is in its 9th day of being locked out of Twitter for the Biden story.
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee authorized issuing a subpoena to both Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg after both platforms took measures to suppress the spread of the Post’s story. Both Dorsey and Zuckerberg will appear alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai before the committee on October 28.
As Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari notes:
Twitter’s actions may prove to be the crossing of the rubicon for Silicon Valley as a whole. In the wake of the platform’s decision to censor the Post, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he would support a rulemaking change proposed by the Trump administration to change the official interpretation of Section 230, a law that is critical to the business model of social media platforms, and grants wide legal immunity for them to censor their own users.
Despite the looming threat from lawmakers and regulators, however, Twitter appears to be escalating its campaign of censorship against Trump.
And if you needed more of a glimpse into the state of big tech censorship, here’s this tweet from the Post’s deputy politics editor Emma-Jo Morris:
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Joseph Jankowski is an Editor-at-Large for Planet Free Will. His works have been published by major news publications such as ZeroHedge.com and Infowars.com.