The cause of the Jan. 6 incident in the U.S. Congress is under investigation. On Friday evening (Jan. 8), Twitter announced the permanent cancellation of outgoing President Donald Trump‘s personal account, and the matter continued to fester on Saturday. Among the voices accusing Twitter of censoring speech, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo‘s was the most visible.
Pompeo tweeted from his personal Twitter account, “Banning is dangerous and it’s not American to do so. Sadly, this isn’t a new tactic from the left anymore. They’ve been silencing the opposition for years.” “We can’t let them silence 75 million Americans, this is not the Chinese Communist Party.”
This comes on the heels of a Friday (Jan. 8) post condemning the permanent ban of Trump’s Twitter handle, in which former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley wrote, “Silencing people, let alone silencing the President of the United States (is) something that happens in China, not in our country.” She also labeled the tweet “unbelievable.
Rep. Rondon Madison Cawthorn (R-Texas), a disabled 25-year-old freshman in a wheelchair, told “Fox & Friends” that after Twitter and other social media platforms permanently banned President Trump’s big personal accounts, it was time to “stand up” to the censorship of these big technology It’s time to “take a stand” against censorship by these big technology companies. “60,000 conservative accounts on Twitter have now been permanently banned…This is a very dangerous precedent. We have to crack down on this.” He also supported Trump’s proposal to reform Section 230 of the Communications Regulatory Act, which protects the giants from prosecution for content posted by users on their sites.
On Saturday (Jan. 9), Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University Law School, tweeted, “While I strongly criticize President (Trump’s) rhetoric, he has never actually called for violence or riots. In fact, he explicitly told his followers ‘to’ make your ‘voices heard’ peacefully and patriotically. Such marches are common at both the federal and state capitols.” He also said that if a precedent were set for “impeachment” of speech protected by the First Amendment, the damage would be far worse than the violence at the Capitol, which would tear the Constitution apart.
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