Well, this was as predictable as the sun setting in the west or Donald Trump dying friendless and alone in a stranger’s bathtub with a tub of Crisco, a jumbo ice-cream scooper, and an increasingly baroque series of mid-18th century farm implements. (I don’t really know what that means either, but I have very good sources running probability estimates on quantum computers the size of Don Jr.’s Thursday morning coke berm. So put a few bucks aside for the pay-per-view.)
Donald Trump’s gobsmackingly Orwellian Twitter ripoff, Truth Social—which touts itself as “America's ‘Big Tent’ social media platform” and hosts “honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology”—is blatantly discriminating on the basis of political ideology. That is, if “alluding to things that make Donald Trump’s Huggies chafe” can reasonably be called a “political ideology.”
The irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Twitter copycat claiming it is “free from political discrimination,” has reportedly banned users who posted information from Thursday’s congressional hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — in which the former president is a key focus.
That’s according to several posts on Twitter by users who claimed Truth Social was censoring them. Reps for Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns and operates Truth Social, did not respond to a request for comment.
Travis Allen, whose Twitter bio describes him as an information security analyst, on Thursday evening posted a screenshot from the Truth Social app that said “Account suspended,” and he wrote: “My Truth Social account was just permanently suspended for talking about the January 6th Committee hearings.”
Seriously, though, can anyone be surprised by this? Donald Trump’s idea of free expression is the book of Hitler speeches he reportedly kept in his bedside cabinet—because it’s speech he agrees with and someone else paid for it.
Of course, Allen wasn’t the only one who was summarily kicked off Trump’s glorious paean to the First Amendment. Max Burns, the communications director for New York state Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou, also noticed there was fuckery afoot at the off-brand TruckNutz of social media sites:
And he wasn’t alone:
I still haven’t signed up for Truth Social, because giving Donald Trump your private information is kind of like telling John Wayne Gacy where your hide-a-key is so he can surprise your kid first thing in the morning on her birthday. But I’m glad others are taking the plunge to expose this. Not like there was ever any doubt about what would happen.
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