Members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing about censorship on Twitter — and some Republicans took this time to address their own accounts being banned. The former Twitter execs were called in to answer questions about the company’s silencing of a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden. Twitter, which unblocked the story within 24 hours, has since admitted it was a mistake and emphasized there was no government involvement.
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00:00Did you shadow ban my account, yes or no?
00:02Again, not to the best of my recollection.
00:04So the answer is, Mr. Roth, yes, you did.
00:06I found out last night from Twitter staff
00:08that you suppressed my account for this tweet.
00:12It's a freaking joke about Hillary Clinton
00:16being angry that she couldn't rig her election.
00:19You know, I bet that Putin is sitting in the Kremlin
00:21wishing he had as much election intervention interference
00:26as you four here today.
00:28You can consider your speech canceled during my time
00:31because you canceled mine.
00:32You permanently banned my personal Twitter account
00:36and it was my campaign account also.
00:38You abused the power of a large corporation,
00:42Big Tech, to censor Americans.
00:45And you want to know something?
00:47Guess what?
00:47I'm so glad that you're censored now
00:49and I'm so glad you've lost your jobs.
00:51Thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter.
00:54Please explain to us why Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene
00:58or the representative from Georgia
00:59was removed from Twitter.
01:03Her personal account was banned from Twitter
01:06after repeated written notices
01:08due to repeated violations of the Twitter rules.
01:11Point of personal privilege, you were mentioning my name.
01:13Who made you in charge of what is true and what's not true?
01:17Today's hearing is merely an exercise
01:20in misinformation and disinformation.
01:24A free-for-all hellscape.
01:28That's what now-CEO Elon Musk said Twitter would become
01:33if the platform became a place where anyone
01:36could say anything with no consequences.