After Twitter tried to shut down the Hunter Biden story and blocked people trying to link the story, the House GOP put the story on their website to read and share.
Twitter has blocked users from tweeting the link to the @nypost's story on Hunter Biden.
So we put it on our website for you to read and share.
Click, share, and RT! https://t.co/tZwybnoW0e
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 14, 2020
“Twitter has blocked users from tweeting the link to the @nypost’s story on Hunter Biden. So we put it on our website for you to read and share,” the House Judiciary GOP tweeted.
Nice idea.
But that didn’t stop Twitter, they began censoring the government website too.
This is what it looked like when you tried to click on the link.
Welcome To Black Mirror motherfuckers
Twitter is now blocking A Government websitehttps://t.co/xIgEIgDFKX pic.twitter.com/67KQ5K6SbU
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) October 15, 2020
So if there is anything worse they could have done to antagonize the already mad as wet hen Republicans on the issue, I can’t think of what it could be.
They effectively just stepped into a 230 trap. Republicans were already concerned about the discrimination against conservatives and were talking about how they shouldn’t have immunity. Then they try to censor a U.S. government website. Bad move. Now they didn’t completely block it. But the warning was even more ridiculous, so as to suggest clicking on the link would be harmful or malware.
The House GOP demanded answers.
We want answers, @jack. pic.twitter.com/y2dYEJl1pH
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 15, 2020
That caused Twitter to back off and release the censorship warning on the site. They’re now saying that was done “in error.”
“The link referenced was blocked in error. That decision has been reversed and the link is now unblocked,” a Twitter spokesman, who insisted on anonymity as a condition for releasing a statement, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
People weren’t buying it.
So, let me see if I get this right: The morning after @jack's big mea culpa on how stupid it was to block the NYPost link and how Twitter did not demonstrate a competent level of communication on the matter …
Twitter suspends the Trump campaign and blocks the House Judiciary?
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) October 15, 2020
UPDATE: Twitter says sorry for accidentally censoring the website of the House Judiciary committee. Says the decision to label it an "unsafe" website" was an "error." Woops!
— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) October 15, 2020
It's always "just a glitch." Not buying it. https://t.co/80xABsRlTN
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 15, 2020
But it’s more than a little too late. As we reported earlier, Republicans are now demanding answers from both Twitter and Facebook. They’ve moved to have a vote next week to subpoena the heads of the two companies and plan to have them in for questioning on Friday of next week.
Sen. @tedcruz: "Twitter is actively blocking, right now this instant, stories from the New York Post…on Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee, the full committee, will be voting on subpoenas to subpoena @Jack Dorsey to come before our committee." pic.twitter.com/lfpEcH8xeQ
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 15, 2020
HT: Twitchy
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