One would have to assume this is the beginning of an Elon Musk program to ban all foreign media which questions the narrative of the US government.
The censorship on Twitter is already worse than it ever was under Jack Dorsey. It hasn’t gotten quite as bad as it was under that Indian freak who became the CEO, but it’s definitely going in that direction.
RT:
Social media platform X has suspended the English-language account belonging to RT’s India branch. The suspension notice sent to RT India on Tuesday stated that the account had allegedly violated the platform’s rules.
According to a statement posted on RT’s main X account, RT India has been accused of unlawfully “impersonating” RT, a claim the channel has denied. The post was accompanied by a screenshot of the suspension notice, in which X accused RT India of “violating X rules against inauthentic accounts” and informed the branch that it “may not misappropriate the identity of individuals, groups, or organizations or use a fake identity to deceive others.”
The channel criticized the platform for the suspension, confirming that “our sister channel @RT_India_news… are very much not impersonating anyone” and expressing hope the situation is “a simple misunderstanding.” In a later post, RT announced that “sadly, we have not yet got a response to rectify this obviously unjust situation with RT India” from X moderators and asked the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, to intervene.
The most infuriating thing is that Elon continues to go around talking about how it’s a free speech website.
Do you know that not only am I banned, but even linking to the Daily Stormer is banned?
And there is a sum total of zero transparency. Elon will not explain why I am banned, or why links to the site are banned.
What rule did I break?
When I was on the site for those first few months that Elon owned the site, my account was boring as hell. I was not saying anything even remotely interesting, let alone doing “hate speech.” And he said he was going to allow hate speech.
Twitter is a total scam, and everything on it is part of the scam. As soon as anyone is effective, they get banned.
RT is pretty benign, and definitely not “hate speech,” but they oppose the mainstream narrative, including on issues that matter to Trump, like Palestine.
There is going to be another big crackdown on Twitter, for sure.
But hey – at least they’ll let you say “there are only two genders,” right? That’s what’s most important.