Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RoKhanna @Jamie_Maz @mdrayton @ShelbyTalcott Right, I think the starting point has to be: Twitter's chief censors were clearly and easily recognizably left-liberals: the most politicized, dogmatic, fanatic version of it. Most political censorship decisions were thus the one-sided byproduct of their dissent-free partisanship — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RoKhanna @Jamie_Maz @mdrayton @ShelbyTalcott Right, and the other problem is these terms are sometimes clear. but usually debatable. People constantly argue about when Israel criticism becomes anti-Semitic, crime/affirmative-action debates become racist, gender ideology debates become transphobic, etc. Very blurry lines. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RoKhanna @Jamie_Maz @mdrayton @ShelbyTalcott But the whole point of time, place and manner restrictions is that you do allow the activity to take place, just not in a specific way (ie, "you can have a protest, but not at midnight through a residential neighborhood"). You're saying this speech should never be allowed here. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RoKhanna @Jamie_Maz @mdrayton @ShelbyTalcott Right, if you recognize that what you're advocating goes beyond what Brandenburg allows, then I have no disagreement with the factual claim (though I would with the policy). Elon previously said the law would guide him but it left some wiggle room: https://t.co/NWbclj0l1Y — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TiraboschiGab @betopferreira If Bolsonaro were serious about any kind of plan, he wouldn't have stayed silent over the last 40 days and even now would be urging his supporters to flood the streets. By itself, Eduardo's trip to go party in Qatar (I hope you don't believe Heloisa's excuse) showed the reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TiraboschiGab @betopferreira If Bolsonaro were serious about any kind of plan, he wouldn't have stayed silent over the last 40 days and even now would be urging his supporters to flood the streets. By itself, Eduardo's trip to go party in Qatar (I hope you don't believe Helena's excuse) showed the reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@dudi48294436 @betopferreira If anyone in this thread wants to bet me any amount of money that Lula will be inaugurated as president on January 1, I will be happy to take that bet for real. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Jamie_Maz @mdrayton @ShelbyTalcott This discussion contains an explicit statement by me that Twitter is obviously under no obligation to follow Brandenburg, which governs how the state can censor. But both Ro and Elon suggested that this *should* be the governing standard for Twitter, rendering its scope relevant. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@naeemsiddiqi I know. I was one the first journalists, if not the first, to report on the Palestinian part of that equation. https://t.co/vE0XpFlk78 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The *weekly* meetings @yoyoel and other Twitter censors had with FBI, DHS, etc. constituted a union of state and corporate power to control the flow of information to the citizenry. "Fascism" has become abused to the point of meaninglessness but that's a defining hallmark. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@littleconomist @caiofleitao Mas não meu sotaque. 😢 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@betopferreira If you really need to believe for the next 3 weeks that Bolsonaro is successfully plotting some hidden plan to stay in power and prevent Lula's inauguration, go ahead. I won't lie about what I'm seeing to please anyone. But I'll bet you any money you want it won't happen. https://t.co/uzb1sk1RcE — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @SteveKrak: A couple weeks ago Kara Swisher announced she was leaving Twitter. Instead she has stayed and turned her attention full-time… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Why should the US Security State have any role at all in influencing, cajoling, pressuring, demanding or dictating to social media companies what content they should and should not permit? That's about propagandizing the citizenry, not protecting it. https://t.co/vhyfd8ooeQ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you regard yourself as a "journalist" and see these revelations as either trivial or positive -- meaning that you think the state of affairs revealed here is either meaningless or (more likely) encouraging -- you're nothing more than a partisan authoritarian. No way around it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This thread proves 3 things: 1) Twitter execs were regularly meeting with FBI over what to censor. 2) Twitter's censorship was almost 100% aligned with the Dem Party. 3) Twitter's chief censors were deranged ideologues abusing their power over our discourse to silence dissent. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Saund65 You sound very stupid, hearing voices in your head. It comes from the fact that you know what I did, know that you could never do it, and thus need to make up lies about me so that you don't feel as bad about your own failures and inadequacies. https://t.co/eqIQA3ks5t — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@caiofleitao Não tem uma diferença. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RoKhanna @Jamie_Maz @ShelbyTalcott @daveweigel Indeed, Brandenburg overturned the conviction of a KKK leader for threatening violence against the US Government for its failure to be more racist. "Imminent" means: standing outside a house with a mob and telling them to go burn it down right then. https://t.co/2TnO5973XH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RoKhanna @Jamie_Maz @ShelbyTalcott @daveweigel Your willingness to speak on these issues is important and courageous, but just FYI: the standard for the kind of speech Brandenburg allows to be prohibited ("imminent") is very narrow. Twitter doesn't have to follow it, of course, but much of what you pointed to is excluded. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It was a subdued speech to a small group. He made a few references to how it's the military that safeguards the country from Communism, but nothing that signaled any real effort to reject the outcome. All signs point to Lula's inauguration on Jan. 1. https://t.co/8vxN27X6gh — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Jair Bolsonaro -- who had spoken only once in the 39 days since the election (to ask truckers to stop blocking streets) -- appeared yesterday for the first time, said his 40-day silence was due to "the pain in his soul," and accepted responsibility for any election mistakes.🇧🇷 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@durrutibooty LOL. You're accusing me of using a "fash-adjacent platform" (a term that has no meaning) while sitting on Elon Musk's Twitter and using it with no sense of irony, as well as - I'll bet - other Big Tech platforms you use controlled by oligarchs. You make a terrible radical.✊ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RedEviction @CheeseyTakes The majority of my income over the last two years has come from my readers who subscribed to my Substack and my normal book/speech income: not a mystery. And, as the WSJ reported after interviewing me, it's Rumble which invested in the show: https://t.co/8Br9yMvLGa — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Yoel Roth, meeting with FBI weekly, and his little censorship minions absolutely degraded Twitter into little more than a full-on Democratic Party activist machine, all while lying to the public about its function. This was a massive public fraud and 2020 election interference: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

What do you call someone who is unbothered by the fact that FBI is having regular meetings with the top executives at Big Tech to tell them what to censor, and specifically demanding the removal of tweets about our elections? Drooling authoritarians: https://t.co/c4QdZrnjOI — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @mtaibbi: @ShellenbergerMD @bariweiss 23. Some of Roth’s later Slacks indicate his weekly confabs with federal law enforcement involved… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Are Ben Collins, Brandy Zardrozny, Taylor Lorenz and the NYT tech team all explaining why this is a "nothing burger" or something we should cheer: one of Twitter's chief censors, @yoyoel, having weekly meetings with FBI during the Biden laptop censorship? https://t.co/DfG5Od1eg3 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Preparing for the Monday night debut of our new program, we're doing some last-minute tests tonight and something appears to have gone very wrong with one of our systems. https://t.co/ob89CbUDi9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

How much more evidence is needed that the US Government - specifically the US Security State - is heavily involved in the process of instructing Big Tech what they should and should not censor? https://t.co/VxxumJzolw — PolitiTweet.org