Matt Taibbi & Michael Shellenberger Testify to House Committee About Twitter Files, Government Censorship. Democrats in Meltdown.

Then 206 Democrats Vote Against Bill to Ban Government Prompted Censorship

Mar 09, 2023

“Ranking Member Plaskett, I am not a so-called journalist…”

"Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps twenty quasi-private entities doing the same thing."

The amount of nonsense Democrats through at Taibbi and Shellenberger was so over the top…. well just see for yourself.

Democrat Sylvia Garcia Matt Taibbi tell her about his sourcing. So much for the SHIELD laws:

Democrat Stacey Plaskett and Charman Jim Jordan have a dramatic clash:

Plaskett vs Jordan part II; trying to get them to name sources again:

Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley

I have to run to a speech, but I never thought I would come to see this day when Democrats trash journalists for seeking to disclose government censorship work and pressing them for their sources and confidential information...

Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley

...They have accused these two journalists as threatening the safety of others by disclosing government censorship efforts. It would all make Joe McCarthy blush.

Then the “gotcha” and “semantics” games begin:

Greg Price @greg_price11

Rep. Daniel Goldman (who bought a congressional seat) says "you cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of lawful speech." Rep. @Jim_Jordan then pulls out an email from the White House to Twitter asking them to censor a tweet from @RobertKennedyJr.

Meara @MillennialOther

In which @DWStweets immediately regrets picking a fight w/ @mtaibbi and @ShellenbergerMD about the #TwitterFiles after beclowning herself via a psychotic rant about how Taibbi & Shellenberger have been compromised by Republicans and @elonmusk. (Also the @joerogan poster 😂😂😂)

Did FBI Director Chris Wray lie under oath about their Twitter censorship efforts:

Under the bill passed by the House, a federal employee may not use their "official authority to censor any private entity, including outside of normal duty hours and while such employee is away from the employee's normal duty post," 206 of 213 Democrats opposed the bill.