{"id":214636,"date":"2022-06-06T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=214636"},"modified":"2022-06-06T04:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T03:56:01","slug":"silicon-valley-corporations-are-taking-control-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/silicon-valley-corporations-are-taking-control-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Corporations Are Taking Control of History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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6 Jun 2022 – <\/em>Twitter has imposed a weeklong suspension<\/a> on the account of writer and political activist Danny Haiphong for a thread he made<\/a> on the platform disputing the mainstream Tiananmen Square massacre narrative.<\/p>\n

The notification Haiphong received informed him that Twitter had locked his account for \u201cViolating our rules against abuse and harassment,\u201d presumably in reference to a rule the platform put in place a year ago<\/a>\u00a0which prohibits \u201ccontent that denies that mass murder or other mass casualty events took place, where we can verify that the event occured, and when the content is shared with abusive intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis may include references to such an event as a \u2018hoax\u2019 or claims that victims or survivors are fake or \u2018actors,’\u201d Twitter said<\/a> of the new rule. \u201cIt includes, but is not limited to, events like the Holocaust, school shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n

That we are now seeing this rule applied to protect narratives which support the geostrategic interests of the US-centralized empire is not in the least bit surprising.<\/p>\n

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The US government thought police at Twitter locked journalist Danny Haiphong @SpiritofHo<\/a>'s account, threatening to suspend him because he contradicted the Western propaganda narrative on Tiananmen, calling it "abuse".<\/p>\n

There is only "free speech" for US regime propagandists here pic.twitter.com\/t9CeCGIBeK<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) June 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n