News · moment 12 of 24
Ahmadinejad's Tweets and the Double Standard of Who Gets Banned
from No Fat Nazis · #126
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5 minNews
They pull up Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's still-active Twitter account and read his inflammatory tweets about Israel, the Holocaust, and the military industrial complex, questioning why he's allowed to stay online while comedians and commentators get banned, folding in Chapo Trap House and Louis Farrakhan as further examples.
- 27:24Nobody will look into what anyone actually said to get thrown off Twitter because people trust big tech and government technocracy.
- 28:03Why does nobody on the left seem bothered that big corporations can make banning decisions with no process or accountability?
- 28:42Alex Jones spent years criticizing the state and Bush's war crimes without resistance before being deplatformed.
- 29:39Ahmadinejad was the president of Iran, which makes his Twitter presence categorically different from Alex Jones or other individuals.
- 30:28Louis Farrakhan remains on Twitter calling Jews horrible things, yet Ahmadinejad got banned.
- 30:56Tim argues the lines being drawn by Twitter are clearly political, not applied consistently.
- 31:37Ahmadinejad's actual tweets talk about closing the military industrial complex and ending wars—not inherently extremist content.
- 32:00His tweet about weapon industry owners being partners in bloodshed and destruction reads like standard anti-war rhetoric.
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