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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1155213)	8/8/2019 7:53:28 AM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573930

More evidence of Twitter banning conservative voices and engaging in election meddling... ------ Twitter locks McConnell campaign account after posting video of protester shouting threats, profanities Justin Wise08/07/19 10:10 PM EDT Twitter has locked the account for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) campaign after it shared a video of a protester's profanity-laced rant outside the senator's home. A Twitter spokesperson told The Hill that the @Team_Mitch account was locked because a tweet "violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety." McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden told The Hill that the account was locked Wednesday morning "for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell." The McConnell campaign on Tuesday shared a video featuring protesters demonstrating outside the Kentucky senator's home. The video included Black Lives Matter Louisville leader Chanelle Helm repeatedly cursing and stating that she wished the GOP leader had "broken his little, raggedy, wrinkled-ass neck" instead of injuring his shoulder last weekend, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Helm later said, "Just stab the motherf---er in the heart" after a man made a reference to a voodoo doll. The comment quickly went viral on social media. McConnell was believed to be at home recovering; his office said Sunday that the senator fractured his shoulder after tripping at home on his patio. "This is a problem with the speech police in America today," Golden said in response to the account's suspension. "Twitter will allow the words of 'Massacre Mitch' to trend nationally on their platform but locks our account for posting actual threats against us. We appealed and Twitter stood by their decision, saying our account will remain locked until we delete the video." An aide to the McConnell campaign said the account was still locked as of Wednesday evening and that Twitter had said it would remain that way until the post was deleted. The aide added that Twitter had taken the video down but that the campaign was still being asked to delete the tweet officially. Twitter's guidelines say that users may not post content on the platform featuring violent threats, regardless of context. The company also says that any glorification of violence violates its policies. McConnell has faced scrutiny from gun control advocates and Democratic lawmakers in the wake of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, over the weekend that left more than 30 people dead. Many Democrats have urged the GOP leader to call the Senate back into session to take up gun legislation that has been passed by the House. Between 20 and 30 demonstrators protested outside McConnell's Kentucky home on Monday night, the news station WHAS11 reported. The protesters reportedly held signs and chanted slogans about a range of issues, including immigration reform and LGBT rights. A spokesman for McConnell's campaign told the Courier-Journal that law enforcement had been contacted about the threats. Helm told the Courier-Journal that she did not regret the comments she made about McConnell and that anger over her remarks had been misplaced. "McConnell doesn’t care about people who actually do break their necks, who need insulin, who need any type of medication, because they want to stop and prevent health care for all," she said. "And that is something that every American out here wants. There’s only a few Americans who don’t want that, and those people are politicians and their cronies."

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1155213)	8/8/2019 7:58:28 AM
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Finally, something is being done about online censorship by the liberal Twitter, Google, and Facebook. It would have been better if they had adhered to the 1st Amendment protections for our citizens. Instead, now the Executive Branch has to get involved to enforce our freedom of speech. --------- Trump considering executive action over alleged anti-conservative tech bias: report Harper Neidig08/07/19 06:18 PM EDT The White House is reportedly exploring potential executive action President Trump could take to address his and other Republicans' allegations of anti-conservative bias among social media companies. Politico reported Wednesday that the White House has circulated a draft proposal, though it is unclear what exactly the order would do or how it would target tech companies. One source told the outlet that the details of the proposal remain in flux. "If the internet is going to be presented as this egalitarian platform and most of Twitter is liberal cesspools of venom, then at least the president wants some fairness in the system," a White House official told the outlet. "But look, we also think that social media plays a vital role. They have a vital role and an increasing responsibility to the culture that has helped make them so profitable and so prominent." Two other unidentified sources confirmed the existence of a draft order to Politico.A White House spokesman told The Hill that the administration is looking at "all policy solutions." “The President announced at this month’s social media summit that we were going to address this and the administration is exploring all policy solutions,” the spokesman said in an email. Trump convened a summit of right-leaning social media personalities in July to complain about internet platforms’ alleged bias against conservatives, a suspicion echoed by other Republican figures. Social media companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have all denied that they discriminate against users based on their political ideologies. But at last month’s White House summit, Trump vowed that his administration would explore “regulatory and legislative solutions” to any infringements on online political speech. “We have terrible bias. We have censorship like nobody has any understanding or nobody can believe,” he said.