Twitter Files Part Five: Trump Gets Banned

Twitter Files Part Five: Trump Gets Banned

Twitter Files Part Five: Trump Gets Banned

The fifth installment of the Twitter Files has been published by Bari Weiss, and it turns out – surprise! – that employees who were more concerned about their own personal “warm fuzzy” feelings than freedom of speech were actively lobbying Twitter management to ban Donald Trump after January 6th.

And Twitter management, as we all know, was already working hand-in-glove with FEDERAL AGENCIES to filter, suppress, and censor election news and Donald Trump’s account. It didn’t take much pushing for them to go to full authoritarian dictator. And once they were over that initial hump, the slope looked verrrrry slippery indeed. And the media, save for conservative outlets, is steadily ignoring the story.

Picking up where the story left off, Donald Trump had one “strike” left on his account on January 8th. Trump then tweets twice on January 8th.


Immediately, the employee peanut gallery of Twitter – enraged at Trump and high on their own power – begin to actively discuss if these tweets were enough for his last “strike” on the platform. There were some inside the company who objected, but those demanding Trump’s deplatforming were louder, and had friends in the media willing to help them amplify their message.


More than 300 employees signed a letter to Jack Dorsey, openly demanding that Donald Trump be banned from Twitter, and get it published in the Washington Post THAT SAME DAY. Their argument?

We must examine Twitter’s complicity in what President-Elect Biden has rightly termed insurrection. Those acts jeopardize the wellbeing of the United States, our company, and our employees.”

First, we request that @realDonaldTrump’s account be suspended permanently, before he can further harm using our platform.”

Second, we request more transparent internal communications around Twitter’s civic integrity policy and how it applied.”

Third, we request an independent investigation into Twitter’s role in these events. Despite our efforts to serve the public conversation, as Trump’s megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th. 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.”

We play an unprecedented role in civil society and the world’s eyes are upon us. Our decisions this week will cement our place in history, for better or worse.”

But at the same time, the employees that were actually evaluating Trump’s two tweets from January 8th were saying that these DIDN’T violate any policies, and there would be no rationale for giving him a strike or banning him for these two. But that didn’t matter to the employee mob within Twitter, who wanted Trump banned because he MIGHT hurt their feelings or do something bad in the future. And Twitter management, who had been looking for a reason to justify ditching all their own rules in order to get rid of Trump from Twitter, were only too happy to become the emperors of speech, toss all the rules, and decide, in the words of Matt Taibbi, “what we say, goes.”


And in the very next tweet screenshot (which can be seen here), some employee declares “Don Jr’s account needs to be locked too”. Wait, when did the conversation shift to Donald Trump Jr? Remember that slippery slope? Well, the banning of Donald Trump was the proverbial hump that Twitter got over. As Bari Weiss points out, the ayatollah of Iran has never been banned, and other calls to actual violence from the heads of Malaysia, Nigeria, and Ethiopia were either deleted or left alone, but not one of those accounts were banned. India’s Prime Minister Modi threatened to ARREST TWITTER EMPLOYEES IN INDIA, and THAT didn’t warrant a ban – and it happened AFTER Trump was banned! So much for “jeopardizing the wellbeing of… our employees” hmmmmmm? If Twitter could ban Trump, then why not his son? Why not ban “misinformation” around COVID? Why not ANYONE deemed a threat to their “warm fuzzy” feelings?


Elon Musk’s comments from this weekend suuuuuuure look a whole lot more interesting in context of THOSE tweets, don’t they?

Bari Weiss wraps up the Donald Trump banning saga this way:

From the outset, our goal in investigating this story was to discover and document the steps leading up to the banning of Trump and to put that choice into context.”

Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter’s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren’t about the past choices of executives in a social media company.”

They’re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.”

Twitter management hated Donald Trump so much that they were willing to coddle their own internal mob, ban a sitting president from their platform, make themselves the gods of speech, and pat themselves on the back for “saving the country” when they were done, instead of realizing that they were now The System, The Deep State, and The Dictators all rolled into one. While they were in charge at Twitter, you were free to have their opinions, but not ones that hurt their “warm fuzzy” feelings.

Where do the Twitter Files go from here? I have a feeling it will involve the man who calls himself “The Science.”

Featured image via geralt on Pixabay, cropped, Pixabay license

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