#whichHillary hashtag being censored by twitter exec in advance of fundraiser

[snagglepuss]

In a truly egregious move yesterday, Twitter suspended the account responsible for #WhichHillary, activists @GuerrillaDems. Twitter also removed #WhichHillary from trending status — odd, considering the hashtag received more than 450,000 tweets (and a similar amount of goats) in less than 24 hours.

This isn’t the first time Twitter has exerted political control like this. It is also a demonstrable conflict of interest, in light of Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani’s Sunday, 2/28 fundraiser with Clinton.

It is no secret that media execs possess enormous editorial influence. Rupert Murdoch has proven the potent political power of media ownership, using Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and his media empire to propagate conservative ideology. Together with News Corp, five other companies control 90% of American media, arguably promoting their own political agendas as well. [Check out Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s fantastic look at media healthcare coverage.]

Social media was supposed to provide a counterweight. It is awful & disappointing to see Twitter censor its users for political reasons alone.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/26/1491618/-Twitter-Exec-Censors-WhichHillary-in-advance-of-Sunday-Fundraiser-Key-Primaries

[Thinkingabout]

1. It is bad when anything is used for political reasons, such as ongoing

Benghazi hearings for nothing more than political reasons.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. K& R n/t (words fail anyway)

[Bill USA]

3. Looks like Rove's American Crossroads and the RNC are at it again, trying to help out Bernie, their

favorite Dem candidate (to run against)!


Republican Operatives Try to Help Bernie Sanders: "We'll win every state if Bernie's their nominee"

Sean Spicer, the chief strategist and spokesman for the RNC, spent much of the evening tweeting Sanders-friendly commentary on the debate, often with the pro-Sanders hashtag #FeelTheBern. At one point, Spicer gently chided Sanders for what he deemed a poor response to a question and added, “come on we are trying to help u.”

After the debate, the Republican political action committee America Rising promoted the narrative that Sanders won the debate. “Clinton needed a win last night. Instead, everyone is talking about how well Bernie Sanders, her chief rival, did,” spokesman Jeff Bechdel wrote to reporters.

Meanwhile, American Crossroads, a group co-founded by Karl Rove, is airing an ad in Iowa bolstering a core tenet of Sanders’s case against Clinton: that she has received large sums of campaign contributions from Wall Street, and therefore can't be trusted to crack down on big banks. “Hillary rewarded Wall Street with a $700 billion bailout, then Wall Street made her a multi-millionaire,” a narrator in the ad

says. “Does Iowa really want Wall Street in the White House?”

[jillan]

5. Karl Rove- Check those Ohio numbers once again. Ohio should have gone to Romney. That Karl?

[jillan]

4. I was wondering about that. There were one tweet after another with the hashtag #whichHillary - yet

it wasn't trending.

This makes perfect sense.