and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight
the main thing that we learned on Friday
Night Last Friday Night with the release
of those previously undisclosed
documents from Twitter is not that
social media companies censor
conservatives obviously we knew that no
one's surprised to have it confirmed no
one denied it in the first place no what
we learned on Friday is that big Tech
Works aggressively and in secret with
government agencies to subvert the
outcome of what the rest of us assumed
were free and fair elections
during the 2020 election Twitter did
this with the help of the FBI committing
censorship on behalf of one candidate
while working to hurt the other
candidate
it is hard to imagine a more Brazen
attack on our democracy than this this
is not how our system is supposed to
work in fact it's illegal
what Twitter did is a violation of the
First Amendment as well as of
established campaign Finance law they
never declared those contributions to
the Biden campaign that's a crime
thanks to the reporting of Matt taibi
who received access to these documents
from Twitter's new owner Elon Musk we
know that this happened it's not a
conspiracy theory it's a fact
but you wouldn't know what happened if
you got your news from Legacy Media
outlets in the U.S in the days since
taibi's jaw-dropping Scoops none of them
have followed up on the story and so
they dismissed the story as entirely
normal of course the FBI was working
secretly with Twitter in the Biden
campaign to control your brain by
limiting your access to factual
information that's how elections work
or they're attacking Matt taibi
personally for daring to write the story
so the same people who've spent weeks
defending billionaire con artist Sam
bankman freed who as if tonight you'll
be happy to know we're still in the
Bahamas unindicted those same people are
telling you that the real criminal here
is the guy who's uncovering illegal
censorship in a presidential campaign
it's hard to believe they're saying that
oh but they are here's a selection
Elon Musk retweeted the quote-unquote
Twitter files a collection of documents
that detail how the social media
platform supposedly buried a story about
a Ukrainian Energy company paying money
to the president's son Hunter Biden
first of all I just have to say that
this whole thing is just ridiculous and
it's not true it was amazing to me that
all of these sort of Fox News or whoever
else jumped on this without ever fully
understanding that it was basically
meaningless what happened and it
actually turned out to be a good thing
musk seems fixated on a two-year-old
story about Hunter Biden's laptop
this is what we in the Cable business
like to call a hot take and it reveals
Elon musk's profound ignorance of the
First Amendment we now know it was a
really helpful thing actually the
Twitter files today because we got to
see how content moderation works we got
to see how when a group of people with
differing political ideas and ideologies
and Views gets together in the spirit of
making a platform safe and healthy
so much there Al Sharpton teaming up
with the former George W bush Aid to
tell you censorship is good the first
lady saying this Ukrainian company
allegedly paid Hunter Biden when there's
no allegedly about it everyone involved
has already admitted it and then best of
all Ali velshi we in the Cable business
Ellie Val she's never been in the news
business people in the news business
cover the news propagandists censor and
distort the news and that's what you're
watching there
thankfully as always their propaganda is
crude and not very effective mostly
because it's so unbelievably not
believable
censorship explains Brandy's adrosney
like a slightly annoyed kindergarten
teacher censorship is called content
moderation when we hide facts from you
that you need in order to cast an
informed vote in a presidential election
that's quote safe and healthy
hiding facts from you is safe and
healthy
is there anyone who actually believes
that well judging by NBC's tanking
ratings not many people actually do
believe that but they're saying it
anyway
here's Michael Steele of MSNBC the
former RNC chairman by the way letting
you know that actually revealing the
mechanics of censorship is itself an
attack on Free Speech
putting those things back on the
platform uh it juxtaposition with the
argument that he's all about free speech
um really undermines the central some of
the central tenets of free speech is
that it is it is about yes the freedom
of you to say things but not at the harm
or expense of someone else and so when
you're perpetuating lies and and and so
forth you really kind of laughing in the
face of this idea of what the platform
he claims is supposed to be
so any day you get to see Michael Steele
misuse the words juxtaposition obviously
it's a good day but the payoff really
was his little lecture on constitutional
law the essential tenet of free speech
Michael still just told you the
essential tenet is that you as an
American citizen are never allowed to
say things that other people object to
okay Michael Steele
if you get a chance let us know what
Constitution you've been reading the one
that we have here in the US is pretty
clear in the United States you get to
say as an American citizen what you
believe period and under no
circumstances ever May the government
infringe on that right period again
that's the First Amendment
and thanks to the Twitter files revealed
on Friday night we know the first
amendment has been violated more
profoundly than at any time in our lives
Miranda Devine of the New York Post has
just reported the FBI met quote weekly
with Twitter Executives in the months
before the 2020 election and in those
meetings the FBI specifically warned
about hack and leak operations by state
actors that would involve Hunter Biden
and would quote likely come out in
October
oh we know that because it appeared in a
sworn deposition from Twitter's former
Chief censor Joel Roth signed in 2020.
it wasn't just Twitter by the way it was
also Facebook the FBI was holding
similar meetings with Facebook which
also not surprisingly in fact as a
direct result those meetings censored
the hunter Biden story
watch
there was a lot of attention on Twitter
during the election because of the
hunter Biden laptop story yeah so you
guys censored that as well so we took a
different path than Twitter
um I mean basically the background here
is the FBI I think basically came to us
some folks on our team it was like hey
um just so you know like you should be
on high alert there was we we thought
there was a lot of Russian propaganda in
the 2016 election we have it on notice
that basically there's about to be some
kind of dump of of um uh that's similar
to that so just be vigilant
so this is a stop the press's story the
FBI is the largest and most powerful
domestic law enforcement agency in the
world it can't become a secret police
force if it does this is no longer a
free country and it's no better than say
Russia under Putin
or any authoritarians it is an
authoritarian state by definition if the
largest domestic law enforcement agency
starts to play in domestic politics but
they are and we know that and no one's
saying anything about it and that's very
strange
we know that the Twitter executive who
went to those meetings the meetings with
the FBI was a man called Joel Roth now
if you think about it it was never clear
what Joel Roth was doing at Twitter in
the first place Joel Roth had no
technical expertise of any kind he
didn't know anything about hacking
Foreign Affairs he didn't know anything
about Russia what does he know about
well Joel Roth received a PhD in the
study of Grindr the gay sex hookup act
from a place called UPenn the University
of Pennsylvania
purportedly an Ivy League school you
should be impressed by
we're not making this up by the way
Grindr appears more than 800 times in
his research and UPenn gave me a PhD for
that
so whatever you think of that how did
that get Joel Roth
into the position that he occupied at
Twitter where he was in charge of what
you were allowed to say and think
well the one qualification we know Joel
Roth did have is he does not believe in
free speech period and he made that very
clear in an interview last week
Babylon B which is what got him to buy
the thing I think the that's right the
one which is which was not particularly
funny The Babylon bees man of the year
is Rachel Levine not funny the targeting
and the victimization of the trans
community on Twitter is very real very
life-threatening and extraordinarily
serious
um we have seen from a number of Twitter
accounts including Libs of tick tock
notably that there are orchestrated
campaigns that particularly are singling
out a group that is already particularly
vulnerable within Society Twitter's
written policies prohibit misgendering
full stop
it's so great
it's life-threatening to tell jokes it's
life-threatening what's interesting
about speech codes always and everywhere
and specifically the speech codes that
Joel Roth has devoted his life over the
past several years to upholding is that
they change constantly and you never
know when they change or what grounds
they change they just change and usually
caught in the crossfire and you're
busted for saying something you didn't
even know you weren't allowed to say
probably the greatest example of this is
that Joel Roth himself once attacked
trans people on Twitter he called them
whoa thereby threading their lives quote
it wouldn't be a trip to New York
without at least one big scary
that's an actual tweet from Joel Roth
the kind of tweet that
if you wrote it he called the FBI
so now Joel Roth has to pretend to be
offended by all of this why because his
purported offense the terror he feels
gives him a pretext to censor you on
behalf of the most powerful people in
the world
that's how that works
so people with the most power claim
they're defending the people with the
least power in order to crush you that's
exactly the way it always works by the
way Joel Roth has deleted his old
trainee tweets and now he's just shocked
he's just shocked by The Babylon B
but it's not just Joel Roth vajayagade
was his boss got a important according
to Matt tabi's reporting oversaw the
censorship of the New York Post
reporting on the hunter Biden laptop and
Gotti was later rewarded for that by the
Biden Administration
for real the bite Administration
appointed the person who effectively
allowed Joe Biden to get elected
president by censoring criticism of his
business deals in which he took money
from China
she was rewarded by getting an advisory
role on cisa that would be the cyber
security infrastructure Security Agency
ever heard of it oh well has a big
effect on your life it's a division of
DHS by the way it's the censorship arm
of the federal government how can this
even exist our first amendment
specifically prohibits that why is there
a court case on this why are people
standing by and putting up with it
we know that it's reaches extensive new
documents revealed in Missouri's ongoing
lawsuit against big Tech revealed just
how aggressive the censorship that cisa
practices is
so effectively they're a hotline that
allows the government to pressure the
big tech companies to censor political
opposition on October 29 2024 example an
official with the Washington Secretary
of State's office wrote to cisa quote I
wanted to flag two tweets with possible
misinformation about the election
misinformation about the election now
remember misinformation is a new word
it's been around the Intel world for a
long time but it's never been used in
common conversation until recently and
the distinct between misinformation
and lying is that misinformation can be
true
it doesn't have to be untrue to be
censored so it used to be truth is a
defense if you're telling the truth you
can say it not anymore with Miss and
disinformation if I don't like it if I'm
in power I can censor you so one of the
offending tweets that this political
official in Washington state was upset
about was a reference to an election
dispute in Washington State's 2004
gubernatorial election which played out
in the courts and ultimately Democrats
won that Court battle the Tweet read
this quote Washington State in 2004
judges ignored the real count and
rewarded the Democrats another tweet
from the same account read simply
ballots can appear whenever from
whomever
now you can agree or disagree with those
tweets
they seem true but in any case their
opinions they're a political take and
you see tweets like that all the time on
Twitter because this is a free country
or was but what happened next is
shocking and it's amazing that anyone
would defend it the federal government
shut down those opinions within minutes
cisa flagged the tweets to several DHS
accounts these people with guns then
cisa sent the report directly to Twitter
please see the report below from
Washington cisa wrote and the tweets of
course were censored the government got
a random Twitter user with a small
following shut down because they didn't
like his or her views on the 2004
election in Washington state because
they criticized Democrats the government
this is not a close call this is a
violation of the First Amendment to the
Bill of Rights to the centerpiece of our
Constitution and it's happening
constantly
States reported posts they didn't like
in cisa an arm of DHS guys with guns got
Twitter to censor it Kentucky's
Secretary of State did this all this all
the time
the documents show that so did
Colorado's in fact Colorado reported
several political parity accounts to DHS
which then alerted Twitter and all of
them were pulled off they were all
parodies by the way even if there
weren't parodies it doesn't matter but
they were in fact jokes you're seeing
one of them on your screen right now
smoke weed every day the accounts bio
reads the official unofficial Twitter
account of the state of Colorado
but Twitter took the DHS complaint
seriously why wouldn't they and censored
the accounts
quote we will escalate Twitter wrote at
the beginning of the election cycle in
2021 staffers for the Secretary of State
of Arizona ordered by gubernatorial
candidate and then Secretary of State
Katie Hobbs
also directed censorship through cisa
quote I am flagging this Twitter account
for your review wrote someone on hobbs's
account to the Center for Internet
Security
cisa was later cc'd in the email why
well according to hobbs's office the
tweets were quote an attempt to further
undermine confidence
in the election institution in Arizona
okay so you're not allowed not to have
confidence in elections really this is
the state where the biggest County took
more than a week to count the ballots
and the printers didn't work on Election
Day though they worked the day before
but you're supposed to have total
confidence in fact you're commanded to
and if you don't have confidence you'll
be punished the email concluded quote
thank you for your consideration in
reviewing this matter for action and of
course Twitter soon censored them thank
you we will escalate Twitter replied
for the fifth time this isn't just
defensive this is illegal this is a
crime a crime is being a very serious
crime a crime against our democracy not
trespassing in the capital or gazing
upon Nancy Pelosi's desk
influencing the outcome of Elections
it's beyond belief it's also very common
much more common than anyone thought
this weekend Elon Musk suggested that
Twitter Twitter interfered abroad too
they do it here why wouldn't they do it
in other countries
musk suggested they interfered in the
Brazilian elections quote I'm seeing a
lot of concerning tweets about the
recent Brazil election he tweeted the
other day if those tweets are accurate
it's possible that Twitter Personnel
gave preference to left-wing candidates
okay
I mean
it's possible if that happened can you
imagine the people lecturing you every
day about democracy or subverting
democracy in foreign countries in Brazil
probably in Hungary probably in El
Salvador in any regime that they don't
like not because those regimes pose a
threat to the United States because they
just don't like the cut of their jib
so what we're learning about State
interference in Democratic elections all
over the world has long been suspected
now it's confirmed and there's a lot
more coming from antibi and others
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