Elon Musk’s Twitter released another batch of internal discussions on Monday, which revealed that an employee from China tried to warn fellow Twitter employees that censorship is wrong.
A fellow Twitter employee responded to their Chinese coworker saying, “I understand this fear, but I also think it’s important to understand that censorship by a government is very different than censorship of the government.”
“The first amendment in the U.S. — and similar legislation in other countries with similar concepts — exist specifically to prevent the government from silencing the people,” the coworker added. At that point, another Twitter employee chimed in and insisted that Trump had “clearly attempted to overthrow our Democratic system of government” and therefore needed to be banned from the social media platform.
“We started labeling/restricting his tweets when they became a threat to Democracy, and seemed like that was our redline; yesterday, he clearly attempted to overthrow our Democratic system of government and showed no signs of remorse…” the Twitter employee lamented.
Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump, a sitting US President, even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn’t violate the rules:
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