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Look up "The Twitter Files by Matt Taibi".

Twitter uncritically and submissively followed directives from FBI and CIA.

I read some headlines that Meta/FB too uncritically and submissively followed the same directives.

That's certainly the narrative Taibi attempted to portray, however it wasn't borne out in the evidence he provided.

There are emails from Adam Schiff directly asking for specific citizens to be censored. No surrounding narrative needed.

There are emails from me to Twitter directly asking for specific citizens to be censored, it's called a report.

Twitter is free to do whatever it wants with those emails, of course, which is why the "Twitter Files" were massively overblown.

Are you sending those emails while on the job as an elected state representative chairing the house Intelligence committee? If you were, that would be an example of a government trying to censor it's citizens by abusing their power and a few of us object to that behavior. You may too one day when it's your voice they are trying to silence.

What's acceptable here as an individual is different from what's acceptable as an elected official with power over the entity you're asking for favors from.

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