It was no secret that Twitter was 100 percent on board with #NetNeutrality, but now that the internet as we knew it is dead thanks to a vote to “gut” net neutrality, Twitter Public Policy is using its power of free expression to call it a body blow to free expression.
The @FCC's vote to gut #NetNeutrality rules is a body blow to innovation and free expression. We will continue our fight to defend the open Internet and reverse this misguided decision. https://t.co/TXTQWDiBNC
— Twitter Public Policy (@Policy) December 14, 2017
And yet, here this tweet is, on my phone, delivered by Verizon. ? https://t.co/ZDKqozKikD
— Darrick Johnson (@darrickjohnson) December 14, 2017
Un-self aware tweet of the day. https://t.co/kZs1H3y9PC
— . (@t4rdi5_) December 14, 2017
This is crazy, I thought when net neutrality was overturned, Twitter would explode. yet here you are. same as before. crazy… https://t.co/2WuxvtbpSi
— Josh Finestone (@Josh_Finestone) December 14, 2017
Twitter Public Policy can continue to fight the misguided decision to repeal net neutrality provisions, but first, could we all just get an edit button?
Sooooo, business as usual? https://t.co/tPOr2Kkz4f
— Coffee is a human right! (@dae0313) December 14, 2017
why don't you sit this one out, Unexplained User Disappearerhttps://t.co/bK9uie5jZr
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 14, 2017
Or…or you could just be innovative and actually support free expression. ☕ https://t.co/JfTviAIaJe
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) December 14, 2017
Never in the history of civilization has removing government regulation led to decreased innovation and reduced free expression.
Why do you have to lie to people? https://t.co/bRG2Qomulb
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 14, 2017
Right, because everybody knows that gov't oversight and regulation is a breeding ground for innovation and free expression. #WakeUp https://t.co/lLm9OwTbLX
— Kevin on Tweeter (@madkatmando) December 14, 2017
How did internet companies innovate pre-2015?
You're also saying we had no free expression pre-2015?
When was Twitter invented? https://t.co/y8CSNjQ0vH
— Ready for Christmas (@Rschrim) December 14, 2017
All internet innovation occured post 2015, apparently. https://t.co/RWrRJ0NYbd
— Winston Coolidge (@winstoncoolidge) December 14, 2017
Believe us: there’s plenty of free expression on Twitter — a lot of it bullying by the Twitter-verified blue-check brigade. Twitter certainly hasn’t figured out how to get that under control.
You guys can't get frog nazis under control but sure. https://t.co/GjQHD5if0u
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 14, 2017
Twitter has shadow banned me and throttled my tweets. Total hypocrisy.#netneutrality
(This is the 2nd attempt on this tweet, the 1st one magically failed to send) https://t.co/AkdsGwJmd3
— Howard Roark Laughed (@Major_Skidmark) December 14, 2017
Free expression, except when the howling mobs report you cuz hurt feewings. https://t.co/hHnXBeb7qP
— JWF (@JammieWF) December 14, 2017
Irony = a company that bans people for expressing their views expounding the virtues of free expression. https://t.co/SB7I3mRidq
— Greg Cougar (@NonLiberalPAer) December 14, 2017
Free expression…… the irony, @Twitter. The irony. #NetNeutrality https://t.co/X5V1LFcIKt
— RJ (@rcaster) December 14, 2017
Except for conservatives. You silence conservatives. Free expression? Twitter you're a joke! You suspend conservative accounts all day everyday. Good riddance to #NetNeutrality https://t.co/KubG7hHQr0
— Tracey ?? (@67_4_17) December 14, 2017
Based on that fact that b4 2015 there was no innovation or free expression online?
Seems to me like since 2015 there has been more & more steps taken to squash conservative accounts on social media.
Maybe believe your eyes & not propaganda. https://t.co/PnB8W0Ip3W
— Doug?MerryChristmas (@DougGT500) December 14, 2017
"We'll defend the open internet!", say the guys who are about to ban every user that visits a site they don't like. https://t.co/igKDtkegUn
— John Groves (@jfgroves) December 14, 2017
It's a body blow to your conservative censorship. https://t.co/JEb3fnYDT2
— NFLCANSUKIT (@allang40) December 14, 2017
Here's @Policy from @Twitter pretending to care deeply about defending"Free Speech" after years of bannings & promising a great purge of Conservatives in a few days.
Peak #netneutrality hypocrisy. https://t.co/yHrYINjYMR— Urbanski (@KasimirUrbanski) December 14, 2017
Now excuse us while we suspend our users en masse for thinking wrong https://t.co/wb5sT3HSqv
— ✠Evropa Invicta✠ (@Evropa_Invicta) December 14, 2017
Your censorship of conservative views and accounts really shows you're defenders of freedom of expression and speech. Kick rocks..#CorporateSoy https://t.co/RfDFO2WIcJ
— parabellum #? (@e30ben) December 14, 2017
Don't know where users get the idea you're biased. https://t.co/UVDDrMZUU5
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) December 14, 2017
Definitely no bias here, none what so ever. https://t.co/9BLKT25MJI
— Jeffrey Tomblin (@JeffreyTomblin) December 14, 2017
Twitter: Advocates "free expression." Inserts propaganda graphic every time anyone mentions #netneutrality https://t.co/wwvB2OdAYV
— Andrew M. Grossman (@andrewmgrossman) December 14, 2017
The irony, it burns… https://t.co/KdeCG3K6Bv
— Jor El (@JorElishere) December 14, 2017
You’ll be defending an open Internet and Free Expression so long as the content fits your agenda, right?
— gab.ia/erwingerrits (@erwingerrits) December 14, 2017
Defend the open internet? You? ???
— Rob Solo (@robsolo) December 14, 2017
@Twitter posts this and then gets totally pwned because of their own Nazi-like actions. https://t.co/AwKwxHMz7H
— Silent Majority (@_DeadFred) December 14, 2017
It’s true that online companies from Etsy to Pornhub did what they could to protest the repeal of net neutrality — what will happen to them now?
Wealthy media corporations hardest hit. https://t.co/h6XEhPyf6P
— AgainstTrumpDude (@TheAmishDude) December 14, 2017
The fact that Twitter, Google etc are all against it, proves Obama's scam was done to benefit them, not the users #NetNeutrality https://t.co/pxAcgmN1kd
— ☠Problematic AF™ Because I Like To Bully CNN☠ (@EF517_V2) December 14, 2017
Government control is the way to keep things free & open? .. uh.. lol.. So, if I am reading this correctly, the path to freedom is giving control of the internet to an admin that is full of "bigots, racists, fascists" … HA HA H AH A https://t.co/VUsStXgvp8
— J.R.S (@_JRS79) December 14, 2017
Better idea: Edit Buttonhttps://t.co/pxAcgmN1kd
— ☠Problematic AF™ Because I Like To Bully CNN☠ (@EF517_V2) December 14, 2017
Told you. Was net neutrality the reason Twitter couldn’t implement an edit button since 2015?
Man, you guys will do anything to avoid putting in an edit button. https://t.co/5ROumTaQbu
— SpideyTerry (@SpideyTerry) December 14, 2017
Twitter users using their free expression to troll Twitter Public Policy for being a drama queen — that’s peak 2017.
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