How Big Tech normalized censoring the President

? The gradual but consistent Overton window shifts have made the once inconceivable idea of Big Tech censoring a sitting US President a reality.

Tom Parker

In 2012, the general manager at Twitter UK, Tony Wang, famously described the company as the “free speech wing of the free speech party” – a motto that was repeated by then Twitter CEO Dick Costello in 2013.

In the years since its executives made those statements, Twitter has ramped up its censorship and current CEO Jack Dorsey has attempted to distance the company from this free speech stance by claiming in 2018 that the free speech motto was a “joke” and “never a mission of the company.”

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