Twitter Files: Adam Schiff's office asked Twitter to suspend journalists they didn't like

The latest release of "Twitter Files" shared on Tuesday uncovered posts that revealed California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff's office asked the tech giant to suspend certain accounts that were critical of the left.

Substack journalist, Matt Taibbi reported that Twitter "received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned." In other words, those journalists who refused to slant their reporting to favor the Democrats should be silenced because that's how banana republics operate.

You may recall that Schiff publicly lied about former President Donald Trump regarding so called Russian collusion. He never admitted the lie nor apologized for spreading it, because, as Saul Alinsky said, "The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results." 

And that obviously includes lying.

An example Taibbi shared was a request sent to Twitter in November 2020 by Schiff's office. Schiff hoped the company would do something about  "alleged harassment from QAnon conspiracists" against Schiff's staff. One of the targets for removal was aide Sean Misko.

"Remove any and all content about Mr. Misko and other Committee staff from its service- to include quotes, retweets, and reactions to that content," the request to Twitter read. "Suspend the many accounts, including @GregRubini and @paulsperry, which have repeatedly promoted false QAnon conspiracies."

The office also asked Twitter to "stop the spread of future misinformation on Twitter" regarding committee staff and  "label and reduce the visibility of any content."

Taibbi wrote that the company initially declined to go along with Schiff's request saying "we don't do this," but noted that Sperry was later suspended.

It was also revealed that when Musk initially took over Twitter, the so called "Twitter Files" were vetted by the company's deputy general counsel Jim Baker. It was done without Musk's knowledge and involved the Hunter Biden story, which Baker covered up under the guise that " . . . we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked," adding, "it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted."

So the story got buried and Baker got fired.

Additionally, Taibbi reported, "Although several sources recalled hearing about a ‘general’ warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story." 

The second installment of the "Twitter Files" was published by The Free Press editor Bari Weiss. The posts revealed Twitter's "blacklisting" of prominent conservatives, including Fox News' Dan Bongino, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, as well as Stanford University's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed the COVID lockdowns and the groupthink during the pandemic.

One of the most egregious banning on the platform was the popular account Libs of TikTok, which never violated its "hateful conduct" policy but were suspended several times for allegedly doing so. The only thing that Libs of TikTok was guilty of was reposting the posts of idiots on the Left, thus showing the public how crazy the Left is.

Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter testified under oath to Congress in 2018 that the company did not censor or shadow-ban conservatives. He has never been indicted for lying.

Third, fourth and fifth installments of the "Twitter Files" focused on Trump's permanent suspension from the platform over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. Taibbi wrote about how Twitter circulated tweets related to the election that were "flagged" by the FBI as being problematic. 

Independent reporter Michael Shellenberger wrote that Dorsey was "phoning it in" while on vacation at the time when his deputies were pushing to de-platform Trump. His former head of trust and safety [an oxymoron] Yoel Roth was leading the charge to get Trump thrown off Twitter and censor others over tweets about the 2020 election.

It was discovered that Roth met on a weekly basis with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the office of the Director of National Intelligence in the weeks leading up to the election.

Why the hell were the FBI and NIA getting involved in politics? And worse, why the hell are they violating the First Amendment rights of citizens? 

It seems like the only 'problematic' information they want to censor is the information that's a problem for them. Trump's tweets from Jan. 6 didn't violate any Twitter rules and staffers seemed to recognize that. But it was Vijaya Gadde, then-Twitter's head legal chief, who suggested that Trump's posts could be "coded incitement to further violence." 

Soon thereafter, Twitter's "scaled enforcement team" suggested that based on how Twitter interprets Trump's tweets, it could violate the violence incitement policies.

It's time for Adam Schiff and his band of Schiff-heads, to resign. Congress has no legal authority to make demands of the free speech of private companies.

That's bananas.

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