Trump Threatens to Shred First Amendment to Defend 'Free Speech'

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Trump threatens to shred the First Amendment to defend 'free speech'

— Donald J. Trump “Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them is correct,” Trump added Wednesday morning. “Big action to follow!”

Trump may well be making empty threats — but those threats alone will probably suffice. Simply floating the idea of impropriety will get his followers riled up and put pressure on social media platforms to cow to his demands, or risk being perceived as biased. It has worked before. Republicans feeling like Twitter is silencing conservative voices, as Trump wrote on Wednesday, is largely the result of his own previous complaints and threats against the platform.

Last week, Klausutis’ husband, Dr. Timothy J. Klausutis, wrote a letter asking Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to remove the posts. “The President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for perceived political gain,” Klausutis wrote,. Many agreed with Klausutis, and the letter reignited calls for the social media giant to hold the president to the same standards as the rest of its user base.

 

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Just another way for him to deflect what a horrible job he’s done with this pandemic

This is PERCISELY the opposite of what he's doing. He is suggesting the possibility because the bullshit media is selectively discriminating against anything anti-left and blocking conservative right wing content. This is not freedom of speech behavior.

MR PRESIDENT COVID CAPUTO...YOUR WAJAT IN BALKAN...

Give it up RS

Huh?

Completely unhinged!

RSPolitics ❌ 🗳 Election integrity: You may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections. This includes posting or sharing content that may suppress voter turnout or mislead people about when, where, or how to vote 🗳 ❌

In his mind free speech is praise for Trump and defense for the idiocy that he espouses, anything else needs to be banned. This is the U.S. not the Soviet Union or China of the 1950s. We all have a duty to vote this want to be autocrat out of office before it's too late.

Hopefully he won’t be in office after November, BUT, in losing he will inflict even more damage to our Democracy than he has already done!

RSPolitics While also pressing his thumb on the 'free market' to punish media companies who don't do what he likes. You know...super conservative and everything.

RSPolitics that's how you do a headline, baby!

Why not rewrite the bible while he's at it 😅🤣😂

This bozo doesn't even understand free speech lol

saywut?

EBGuitarMan I wonder if he doesn't know that he really doesn't have the authority to do so. Even if he asked the FCC to fine or block them they really can't because when he signs on the Twitter he has to agree to a TOS which basically tell everyone don't like it FUCK OFF.

I know I shouldn’t say it, but I HATE him (I just don’t want to be a bully like he is). This is why Americans need to vote. I know so many people who don’t care. They don’t “do” politics. Get informed...we have one planet that all of us are lucky to be on together. We must act.

Dead eyes.

Can we all please just keep pushing him until he self-implodes? It would save us the trouble of having to remove him from the white house kicking and screaming.

Lmao! Please keep it coming! This guy is losing all sense of reality.

Desperation setting in for the incompetent, corrupt fraud. Even Twitter is calling out his lies

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