Fox News contributor and former White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, could not contain himself on Friday in his criticisms of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who was caught in an audio leak saying the company’s stock will be “much bigger than just one account”.
The conservative group Project Veritas released the audio, obtained from an alleged “internal whistleblower”. Fleischer reacted to the recording during an appearance on “America’s Newsroom” with co-host Sandra Smith.
ARI FLEISCHER: I literally used this device, a phone, and put the hashtag on Twitter #killTrump, and a lot of things came up. So how can Twitter, with a straight face, say that its policy is to stop the speech that promotes violence while allowing #killTrump to be on its website. Twitter’s hypocrisy is profound. The damage they are doing to a republic in which there should be freedom, there should be speech, and however much they are a private group with the right to do so, when you exercise your right in the wrong ways, you divide America. Twitter now represents the division of America …
America is being transformed into a university campus where, if you don’t adhere to the appropriate political orthodoxy, you can be banned and silenced. This is inherently divisive and has made our nation deal with political difficulties. Society breathes. We are allowed to speak and expose our differences without being avoided. We’re not that kind of country anymore, unfortunately. That’s why these types of censorship actions are so dangerous …
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Why is there so much anti-Semitism on Twitter? Why are there so many threats of violence on Twitter? They are just conservative activists. I’m sorry, Jack, you are not allowed to meditate on the damage you are doing while you continue to do the damage.