{"id":46641,"date":"2022-02-25T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46641"},"modified":"2022-02-26T06:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T05:56:46","slug":"twitters-complicity-with-russia-it-censored-trump-but-gives-free-rein-to-the-putin-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/twitters-complicity-with-russia-it-censored-trump-but-gives-free-rein-to-the-putin-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter's complicity with Russia: it censored Trump but gives free rein to the Putin regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vladimir Putin regime is using Twitter to broadcast its infamous propaganda and justify its aggression against the Ukrainian people.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/12\/21\/a-polish-law-will-combat-ideological-censorship-on-social-networks-this-is-how-it-will-work\/\">A Polish law will combat ideological censorship on social networks: this is how it will work<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/04\/11\/the-zuckerbergs-trouble-when-asked-about-the-censorship-of-conservatives-on-facebook\/\">The Zuckerberg\u2019s trouble when asked about the censorship of conservatives on Facebook<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Twitter censored Trump even though he rejected the assault on Capitol<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Last year,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/07\/twitter-y-facebook-banean-a-trump-mientras-toleran-a-los-dictadores-de-cuba-y-venezuela\/\">Twitter kicked then-US President Donald Trump off its network<\/a>, an unprecedented move for a sitting democratic president. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSafety\/status\/1347684877634838528\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter justified the censorship of Trump's account in this way:<\/a> <em>\"we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence\"<\/em>, referring to the assault on the Capitol that occurred on January 6, 2021. It was a false accusation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/09\/trumps-latest-messages-on-twitter-reading-them-shows-the-real-cause-of-censorship\/\">Trump had He rejected violence and asked for respect for the law and the Police from his Twitter account<\/a>, before it was censored.<\/p>\n<p><big>Twitter's tolerance towards the Taliban and the dictators of Cuba and Venezuela<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The double standard of the American company was already evident with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/07\/twitter-y-facebook-banean-a-trump-mientras-toleran-a-los-dictadores-de-cuba-y-venezuela\/\">Twitter's tolerance towards the dictators of Cuba and Venezuela<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/08\/15\/la-escandalosa-tolerancia-de-twitter-hacia-los-talibanes-tras-censurar-a-donald-trump\/\">and towards the Afghan Taliban<\/a>, while they are dedicated to violating human rights and using violence against their opponents. But <strong>the case of Russian aggression against Ukraine is proving even more scandalous.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>The American social network keeps the official accounts of the Russian government open<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Today, almost two days after the start of the invasion, a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kremlinrussia_e\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter keeps the official account of Vladimir Putin (@kremlinrussia_e) open and even verified<\/a>, in English, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KremlinRussia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and another one in Russian<\/a>. It also maintains open and verified other Russian government accounts, such as its Ministry of Foreign Affairs (with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mfa_russia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accounts in English<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MID_RF\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAE_Rusia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/russia_ar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arabic<\/a>), in addition to the accounts of the various Russian embassies. As an example, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/embajadarusaes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the account of the Russian Embassy in Spain<\/a> is a real propaganda page for that regime. To these accounts must be added those of the official propaganda media of the Russian government, <strong>RT and Sputnik News<\/strong>, in several languages.<\/p>\n<p><big>Ukraine asks Twitter to close these official Russian accounts<\/big><\/p>\n<p>One wonders if Twitter considers the assault on Capitol Hill more serious than the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and <strong>why it censored Trump, despite condemning the violence, while giving the Putin regime a free hand to justify its crimes against the Ukrainian people.<\/strong> This Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ukraine\/status\/1496888388938604556\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the official Ukrainian Twitter account has asked users to ask that company to suspend official Russian accounts<\/a>: <em>\"no place for an aggressor like Russia on Western social media platforms\"<\/em>, the Ukrainian government has pointed out. <em>\"<strong>They should not be allowed to use these platforms to promote their image while brutally killing the Ukrainian people<\/strong>,\"<\/em> it added.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Hipertextual-Gabriel Erard.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vladimir Putin regime is using Twitter to broadcast its infamous propaganda and justify its aggression against the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10395,10429],"tags":[9189,10731,16153,15307,7887,1168],"class_list":["post-46641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-second","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}