Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account

The deafening silence in these comments is telling of how boned free speech proper actually is.<p>Hope you all are enjoying the &quot;free speech for me, but not for thee&quot; attitude of this neo-feudalism that we live in.

I am in awe at people who say “market forces should rule everything “ and then in the same breath say “government has a responsibility to enforce that a private organization must allow everyone to use their platform in an arbitrary way”.<p>No one was arrested. No one was silenced. Project Veritas could send an email out with the information to all their subscribers completely legally (assuming they weren’t breaking federal law by doxxing people).<p>If I was mod of a knitting forum and had a public policy of never allowing people to talk about Tom Brady, and someone did so, I could ban the person. That’s not censorship, that’s me kicking someone out of my (and only my) community. They can still talk all they want.

I&#x27;m all for free speech. But do we really need to confront public figures in front of their own home and post it on the Internet? I think everyone would be concerned, especially if you have a family. I do think people have right to some privacy especially concerning their own home.

The Panama Papers have personnel information. I wonder if they will ban CNN next.

How long before hard hitting independent journalists like Greenwald and others who publish regardless of who it exposes and inconveniences start seeing their voices silenced and only approved voices get to tiptoe and publish banalities along with special daggers for non conformers?<p>Twitter needs to be renamed Pravda unironically.

Looks like selective enforcement.

I’m sad to see this happen. I don’t know what the right answer is for undercover and hidden cameras, but exposing possible corruption should be a mainstay of all journalistic endeavors.

I can&#x27;t wait until social norms change again down the road, and the right uses this newfound power of consorship and control to dominate.<p>I mean, it&#x27;ll suck, no doubt. But it&#x27;ll also be just desserts for the destroyers of freedom.

how can they promote bitcoin<p>and on other hand play the censorship card<p>the amount of propaganda from the USA and the big tech companies is infuriating to be honest<p>we are heading towards a very very bad and unhealthily long and dark road if you ask me

Twitter has become a joke. literally a twisted bastardized joke that only communists and fascists like.