{"id":1772579,"date":"2022-12-12T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772579"},"modified":"2022-12-12T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:19:27","slug":"did-twitter-suppress-covid-lockdown-protests-elon-musk-should-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-twitter-suppress-covid-lockdown-protests-elon-musk-should-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Twitter Suppress Covid Lockdown Protests? Elon Musk Should Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdid-twitter-suppress-covid-lockdown-protests-elon-musk-should-find-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772579&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During the Covid lockdowns, did you ever wonder why there weren\u2019t more peaceful protests as we lost our basic liberties?<\/p>\n<p>The release of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d has shown the government collaborated with the Big Tech platform to suppress free speech by censoring disfavored news stories and speakers. But as journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and others comb through years of Twitter data, they should seek to discover whether another of our most basic rights was also subverted: the First Amendment \u201cright of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A month into the Covid-19 lockdowns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/apr\/22\/activists-plan-march-state-capitals-reopen-may-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-lockdown protests<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COVID-19_protests_in_the_United_States#cite_note-203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taking place nationwide<\/a>. Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/facebook-shuts-down-anti-quarantine-protests-at-states-request-196143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>: \u201cFacebook is blocking anti-quarantine protesters from using the site to organize in-person gatherings that violate states\u2019 stay-at-home orders.\u201d A Facebook spokesman said the company was removing posts \u201cwhen gatherings do not follow the health parameters established by the government and are therefore unlawful.\u201d Protest organizers\u2019 Pages were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/08\/lockdown-groups-far-right-links-coronavirus-protests-american-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shut down by Facebook<\/a> for violating its terms of service by allegedly inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p>But protest organizers knew to encourage participants to wear masks, socially distance, and not carry guns to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/bJLM5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avoid criticism<\/a>. How much did Twitter, Facebook, and other tech giants restrict protesters from organizing under the guise of concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/facebook-shuts-down-anti-quarantine-protests-at-states-request-196143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health risks<\/a> or incitement to violence?<\/p>\n<p>While there were those calling for revolution and saying menacing things on social media, did groups clearly advocating nonviolent demonstrations get blocked too? What was Twitter\u2019s policy on sharing posts inviting people to demonstrate peacefully?<\/p>\n<p>We know tech giants acted to support heavy-handed Covid-19 policies. They <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23129287\/second-amended-complaint-missouri-v-biden.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suppressed<\/a> content questioning Covid lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccines. Anthony Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-ags-fauci-zuckerberg-colluded-kill-covid-lab-leak-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly communicated<\/a> with Facebook\u2019s chief, Mark Zuckerberg, to control coronavirus information. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control<\/a> and Prevention\u2019s digital medical chief communicated with Twitter executives about censoring unapproved opinions on social media.<\/p>\n<p>As the Twitter Files have revealed, Twitter executives are about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1601726483004723201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">99 percent Democrat<\/a> and amplify and suppress viewpoints <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shellenbergermd\/status\/1601745746423750656?s=43&#038;t=c62-buOPVwwMeOD8-VALcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cquite a bit.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Anti-Lockdown Protests Quelled <\/p>\n<p>We know Twitter has quelled demonstrations in Canada too: the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d of truckers, who protested Covid shot mandates and policies in the Canadian capital of Ottawa in February 2022, two years after the Covid outbreak. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/twitter-bans-freedom-convoy-account-platform-1677163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter banned their account<\/a>, again using the reasoning that the group was inciting violence. The Canadian government also <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/dy9tQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">froze protesters\u2019 bank accounts<\/a>, and GoFundMe <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/2022.02.08-040506\/https:\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-02-07\/canada-s-trucker-protest-may-spread-from-ottawa-to-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonetized<\/a> the group. The trucker convoy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/21\/politics\/fact-check-fox-canada-protests-carter-gutfeld-pirro\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noisy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2022\/02\/16\/fact-check-canada-freedom-convoy-protesters-dont-number-100-000\/6787141001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blocked traffic<\/a>, but it appears to have been <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/IC1tP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nonviolent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer of 2020, which frequently turned violent and did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/09\/realclearinvestigations_jan_6-blm_comparison_database_791370.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billions of dollars<\/a> of damage. Did tech giants amplify calls for BLM demonstrations? How much more manipulation might Big Tech have wrought? How much were President Donald Trump\u2019s tweets suppressed?<\/p>\n<p> Massive Democrat Effort to Manipulate Election Protesters <\/p>\n<p>If this seems too speculative, remember that a key Time magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/5wH1a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> clearly states at its very beginning that <em>avoiding protests<\/em> was the main focus of a massive effort by \u201cleft-wing activists and business titans\u201d to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Twitter\u2019s anti-democratic tactics are revealed, the public needs to know whether one of our most basic rights was also subverted: the right to protest peacefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":1772582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4127,4249,6919,6290,4250,3970,8183,4253],"class_list":["post-1772579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-covid","tag-elon","tag-federalist","tag-lockdown","tag-musk","tag-protests","tag-suppress","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}