Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn Banned from Twitter for "Harmful Activity"

Updated - The psychology of the censor is at work following the Jan 6 capitol occupation.

Twitter has permanently banned attorney Sidney Powell, and Michael Flynn, (Just the News).

Their crime? A Twitter spokesperson told media that they were removed "in line with [the company's] policy on Coordinated Harmful Activity."

This is beginning to to look like the banishing of heretics, with some of the hallmarks of a political Putsch.

I don't trust it.

I love Facebook and Twitter for the social media platforms' capacity to further speech, not to smash speech.

Angela Merkel, who knows something about destroying the press and communication of those perceived as unorthodox, condemned Twitter after the social media platform banned Trump.

Liberals are working to banish political movements from the public square. And what the liberal consensus does is not drawing a lot of opponents.

Glenn Greenwald is one.

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel blasted Twitter’s decision to ban U.S. President Donald Trump.

'The right to freedom of opinion is of fundamental importance,' Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s chief spokesman, told reporters in Berlin on Monday." https://t.co/1f8X98ZJIY

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 11, 2021

What makes Merkel's comments particularly striking -- apart from her well-reported acrimony with Trump -- is, as @AliceFromQueens noted, Europe generally and Germany specifically have far less permissive free speech traditions than the US. Yet even Merkel finds this alarming.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 11, 2021

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