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Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by mc32 on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:41AM (#26113519)
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?

Twitter needs to be renamed Pravda unironically.

Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by chrononaut on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:59AM (#26113677)
> Twitter needs to be renamed Pravda unironically.

Equating Twitter to Pravda is the same extreme hyperbole as people who equate GOP to Nazis.

Last I checked Twitter is not a state-run operation that will arrest or kill people who report information that it doesn't agree with.

Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by autoditype on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:00AM (#26114317)
> Last I checked Twitter is not a state-run operation that will arrest or kill people who report information that it doesn't agree with.

This isn't Pravda, that was KGB. Pravda is a better analogy as it was a newspaper. Your comment just flamed with additional hyperbole. There's no need for that here

Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by chrononaut on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:57PM (#26118463)
> Pravda is a better analogy as it was a newspaper. Your comment just flamed with additional hyperbole. There's no need for that here

I don't think I inflamed anything. You are correct. Pravda did not employ actors who assassinated or arrested other individuals. They were the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. If Pravda was an independent organization that mischievously drove a specific agenda, I would wholeheartedly agree with you.

Stating that Pravda's and Twitter's actions equate to the same is implying that Pravda, CCCP and KGB only worked towards ensuring dissenting voices did not have a platform, but otherwise left them alone. Completely disconnecting Pravda from the CCCP is a disingenuous view of the role Pravda played in its presentation of the Soviet state and its actions.

Twitter isn't an invisible arm of the US government. So yes, I still believe it's extreme hyperbole.

Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by mc32 on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:50PM (#26121242)
Twitter at the core represents an ideology. Pravda (of yesteryear) represented an ideology.
Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by slackfan on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:43AM (#26113535)
Greenwald's already been booted out of his own media org that he founded. Private corporations & all that.
Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by g_sch on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:48AM (#26113570)
He resigned after they refused to run one of his articles as written. I think this is an important distinction because other journalists have been fired for their speech, but he wasn't one of them.
Re:Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas account by idealism on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:58AM (#26113665)
A media corporation that doesn’t want the bad PR around firing their most recognized employee (and co-founder in this case) need only make the life so difficult for that person that they quit in protest. The ol’ “cold shoulder” routine.

Some people would say “Yep! No foul play! He left totally of his own volition!” while others, not playing this corrupt PR game, will see it as the same thing as firing.