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Twitter Hit with $250 Million Lawsuit

March 19, 2019 /

Congressman Devin Nunes is suing Twitter for defamation in a filing that he says is the first of many. Nunes, a California Republican who headed the House Intelligence Committee (which made him a target of the far left or alt left), is seeking money damages totaling $250 million (a trendy number) for defamation from the social media network, among other forms of requested relief. He also maintains that Twitter shadow-banned him and others. Although the president has spoken about and tweeted about social network bias, neither the Trump administration or possibly compromised GOP lawmakers collectively have taken any substantive steps to address against social media censorship as yet. Nunes has taken the matter into his own hands. read more

Twitter HQ Gets Loomered: Laura Loomer Protests Outside NYC Office

November 29, 2018 /

Conservative firebrand Laura Loomer has handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter headquarters in New York City to protest online censorship and is live-streaming the encounter. Twitter recently put Loomer’s account on a permanent suspension.

Update: the NYPD has reportedly arrested Laura Loomer.

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Although Loomer — who often uses the left’s confrontational tactics against them — is receiving criticism by dismissive liberals and conservatives, especially the blue-check Twitter cohort, the demonstration continues with a heavy police presence. It doesn’t appear that she is leaving anytime soon.

That said, in this era of politically motivated social media suspensions, outright bans, shadowbanning,  de-platforming, de-monetization, inflated or squelched trends, and so on, is this form of street theater completely out of line?

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In June 2017, Loomer, an independent journalist, rushed the stage at Shakespeare in the Park during a contemporary interpretation of Julius Caesar to protest the the assassination of a Trump lookalike in the play’s Caesar role.

Y'all liberals (I love you all) who read me don't get this Laura Loomer stuff.

Breaking the 4-minute mile was seen as impossible. Roger Bannister broke it, and since then 1,400 followed him.

"Conservatives" never engaged in left-wing style activism.

Today the game changed. read more

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