01-08-2021, 05:31 PM
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canc...-walk-away
Update (1705ET): Big tech is on a cancel crusade today - with Twitter suspending General Michael Flynn, attorney Sidney Powell and various other pro-Trump accounts (see below).
Meanwhile, Apple is set to remove Twitter competitor Parler from its app store unless they enact a series of draconian crackdowns on free speech.
Now, the Washington Post reports that hundreds of Twitter employees demanded in a Friday letter that the company permanently suspend President Trump's account over Wednesday's 'storming' of the US Capitol, after police simply let protesters into the building.
"In an internal letter addressed to chief executive Jack Dorsey and his top executives viewed by The Washington Post, roughly 350 Twitter employees asked for a clear account of the company's decision-making process regarding the President's tweets the day that a pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol. Employees also requested an investigation into the past several years of corporate actions that led to Twitter's role in the insurrection," writes the Post.
"Despite our efforts to serve the public conversation, as Trump's megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th," reads the letter. "We request an investigation into how our public policy decisions led to the amplification of serious anti-democratic threats. We must learn from our mistakes in order to avoid causing future harm."
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Update (1625ET): Twitter has suspended both General Michael Flynn, President Trump's first National Security Adviser, and attorney Sidney Powell, as part of a crackdown on accounts engaging in 'harmful activity.'
![[Image: flynn%201_1.jpg?itok=qrN9ZHNW]](https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/flynn%201_1.jpg?itok=qrN9ZHNW)
More purgings:
Check back for updates...
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Cancel culture is back with a vengeance, after Reddit banned yet another pro-Trump forum, /r/DonaldTrump, from the public square in yet another example of leftist technocrats using outlier groups of extremists - in this case, the Capitol 'raid' - to justify their actions, while having given their own side a pass during four years of violence and incendiary rhetoric.
![[Image: trump%20wtf_0.JPG?itok=aCCqD-p5]](https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/trump%20wtf_0.JPG?itok=aCCqD-p5)
"Reddit's site-wide policies prohibit content that promotes hate, or encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence against groups of people or individuals. In accordance with this, we have been proactively reaching out to moderators to remind them of our policies and to offer support or resources as needed," a Reddit spokesperson told an undoubtedly giddy Axios, who added "We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol."
In June, Reddit banned /r/The_Donald - one of the site's largest political communities, right as the 2020 election began to heat up.
The company's Friday ban-hammer comes on the heels of several other platforms taking actions against Trump or his supporters. As Axios notes:
And in what's got to be the icing on the cancel cake, Lehigh University just revoked a 33-year-old honorary degree given to President Trump in 1988, after the school's board of trustees voted to do so on Thursday following the violence in the Capitol.
It seems like these institutions were just waiting for the right excuse...
Update (1705ET): Big tech is on a cancel crusade today - with Twitter suspending General Michael Flynn, attorney Sidney Powell and various other pro-Trump accounts (see below).
Meanwhile, Apple is set to remove Twitter competitor Parler from its app store unless they enact a series of draconian crackdowns on free speech.
Now, the Washington Post reports that hundreds of Twitter employees demanded in a Friday letter that the company permanently suspend President Trump's account over Wednesday's 'storming' of the US Capitol, after police simply let protesters into the building.
"In an internal letter addressed to chief executive Jack Dorsey and his top executives viewed by The Washington Post, roughly 350 Twitter employees asked for a clear account of the company's decision-making process regarding the President's tweets the day that a pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol. Employees also requested an investigation into the past several years of corporate actions that led to Twitter's role in the insurrection," writes the Post.
"Despite our efforts to serve the public conversation, as Trump's megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th," reads the letter. "We request an investigation into how our public policy decisions led to the amplification of serious anti-democratic threats. We must learn from our mistakes in order to avoid causing future harm."
* * *
Update (1625ET): Twitter has suspended both General Michael Flynn, President Trump's first National Security Adviser, and attorney Sidney Powell, as part of a crackdown on accounts engaging in 'harmful activity.'
![[Image: flynn%201_1.jpg?itok=qrN9ZHNW]](https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/flynn%201_1.jpg?itok=qrN9ZHNW)
More purgings:
Check back for updates...
* * *
Cancel culture is back with a vengeance, after Reddit banned yet another pro-Trump forum, /r/DonaldTrump, from the public square in yet another example of leftist technocrats using outlier groups of extremists - in this case, the Capitol 'raid' - to justify their actions, while having given their own side a pass during four years of violence and incendiary rhetoric.
![[Image: trump%20wtf_0.JPG?itok=aCCqD-p5]](https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/trump%20wtf_0.JPG?itok=aCCqD-p5)
"Reddit's site-wide policies prohibit content that promotes hate, or encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence against groups of people or individuals. In accordance with this, we have been proactively reaching out to moderators to remind them of our policies and to offer support or resources as needed," a Reddit spokesperson told an undoubtedly giddy Axios, who added "We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol."
In June, Reddit banned /r/The_Donald - one of the site's largest political communities, right as the 2020 election began to heat up.
The company's Friday ban-hammer comes on the heels of several other platforms taking actions against Trump or his supporters. As Axios notes:
- Twitch and Snapchat disabled Trump's accounts.
- Shopify took down two online stores affiliated with the president.
- Facebook and Instagram banned Trump from posting for at least the next two weeks, and faced calls to boot him permanently, including from former First Lady Michelle Obama and high-ranking Hill Democrats.
- Twitter froze Trump out of his account Wednesday before reinstating him Thursday once he deleted problematic tweets.
- YouTube says it's accelerating its enforcement of voter fraud claims against President Trump and others based on Wednesday's events.
- TikTok is removing content violations and redirecting hashtags like #stormthecapitol and #patriotparty to its community guidelines.
And in what's got to be the icing on the cancel cake, Lehigh University just revoked a 33-year-old honorary degree given to President Trump in 1988, after the school's board of trustees voted to do so on Thursday following the violence in the Capitol.
It seems like these institutions were just waiting for the right excuse...