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
https://twitter.com/Josh_Finestone/status/941386127562461184
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?
https://twitter.com/dae0313/status/941386775615881216
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
https://twitter.com/madkatmando/status/941386196361601025
https://twitter.com/Rschrim/status/941388674717143040
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
https://twitter.com/Major_Skidmark/status/941402491178094592
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/941421913259302912
Irony = a company that bans people for expressing their views expounding the virtues of free expression. https://t.co/SB7I3mRidq
— Greg 'Squanto' Cougar (@NonLiberalPAer) December 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/rcaster/status/941425884355022854
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
— ❌ Botty ? McBotBitch ?? ❌ (@67_4_17) December 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/DougGT500/status/941394785377583104
https://twitter.com/jfgroves/status/941425530250940417
It's a body blow to your conservative censorship. https://t.co/JEb3fnYDT2
— Gorilla?BotSpy (@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
https://twitter.com/Evropa_Invicta/status/941402762239242248
https://twitter.com/e30ben/status/941389250016116736
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
https://twitter.com/andrewmgrossman/status/941426611433418753
https://twitter.com/JorElishere/status/941390240324845568
https://twitter.com/erwingerrits/status/941402510484496384
Defend the open internet? You? ???
— Rob Solo (@robsolo) December 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/_DeadFred/status/941404662950850560
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
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/941386342348611584
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
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/941386017415843840
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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