Is this the end of American Values?
Hello, my dear comrades!
Y’all knows that Twitter banned Trump's account, even though he (as it was officially proclaimed) finally lost the election, probably already took Vladimir Putin’s portraits off the walls, and Is currently giving up the office to Joe Biden. Many rejoice in Twitter’s decision, particularly you, my little democrats. But what about freedom of speech? By the way besides Trump, Google Play and Appstore removed Parler (its status is currently offline), an app that was widely used by Alt-Rights, conspiracy theorists, Trump supporters, and so forth.
You can think anything about Trump and Parler users. Yet this time their rights were violated, their voices were forced to be silenced only because their views are not supported by others. Welcome to America, a country with a dying democracy, a land of unfree and home of non-brave!
In the article Russian opposition leader Navalny slams Trump ban as 'censorship' Alexey Navalny, a famous Russian opposition blogger (he’s not an opposition leader though, so stop lying American media, hahaha) made a clear statement:
“In my opinion, the decision to ban Trump was based on emotions and political preferences,” Navalny wrote in a lengthy Twitter thread posted on Saturday evening. “Don’t tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules. I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone (not that I ask for it).”
I am neither fan of Trump nor Navalny. As I said before, Alexey Navalny is not even an opposition leader but rather a populist anti-Kremlin blogger. I don’t support his views, but I am 100% agree with his position about Trump. Because this practice would be carried on in the future, even democrat leaders whose outlook may be somehow distinguished could be banned. That way both republicans and democrats, rock and rap fans, pizza with pineapples, and just regular pepperoni lovers would lose a platform for debates. And without debates – however, they frequently might be one-sided and superficial – the public consensus is impossible. And without consensus, society can’t peacefully exist.
That’s everything I have for you today, folks! And I am going back to my Vodka treasury. If I used it last time to celebrate Russian hackers’ excellent job this time, I am about to… I’ll find a reason! So never mind.
Have a good day and let Twitter vanish like it never existed before!