A northern Idaho internet provider – Your T1 WIFI – said it decided to block Facebook and Twitter for some customers, citing censorship accusations, according to KGW8.
Your T1 WIFI provides internet to North Idaho and the great Spokane, Washington, area.
The decision was made after Twitter and Facebook banned President Donald Trump from social media platforms after the U.S. Capitol riots.
According to KGW8, the decision could violate Washington’s network neutrality law. The company said it plans to block Twitter and Facebook because it has received customer complaints.
- “It has come to our attention that Twitter and Facebook are engaged in censoring our customers and information,” the company said in an email to customers.
- “Our company does not believe that a website or social networking site has the authority to censor what you see, post and hide information from you, preventing you from seeing what your friends and family are posting,” says the email. “That’s why, with the amount of concerns, we made the decision to block access to these two sites from our network.”
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The company said it does not “tolerate what Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook and Apple are doing … for Parler, trying to arm them hard to submit.”
Brett Fink, the owner of the company, told KREM that the sites will only be blocked for those who request them.
- “We received customers who asked to be blocked by him. That’s what email was about, so we’re not blocking anyone, just those who asked for it, ”said Fink.