http://www.steynonline.com/10692/the-last-copier-in-the-woods-arrives-sooner-than
UPDATE: If you’re wondering why we haven’t linked to the column below from our Twitter account, it’s because we’re unable to: every time we try to tweet it, we are informed that “Twitter is over capacity”. “Social” media are the new Stasi.
UPPERDATE: The tweet is now there. But there’s a lot of this about. Twitter now says the House Judiciary GOP account was blocked “in error”. Could happen to anyone:
If anybody is around to write history in a generation or two, October 14th 2020 will go down as the first day of a new Year Zero. Yesterday, with less than three weeks to go in a national election in a settled democratic society with an ostensibly free press, the woke billionaires of the social media cartel decided to freeze and/or cancel the Twitter/Facebook accounts of the President’s press secretary, the Trump campaign, Republican Senate candidates and Republican House members.
So America is now formally a one-party state, at least as far as fair access to media platforms is concerned. In old-school “people’s republics”, the dictator keeps the opposition party off the air. In the subtler version operated by social media, woke dictators of a nominally two-party state are now openly keeping one of those two parties off your telephones and tablets. Wanker conservatives of the lemming right wonder if this might be, ooh, a “campaign-finance violation”. Hey, yeah, maybe John Durham can do that for his next any-day-now investigation-without-end.
Meanwhile, tonight was supposed to be the second presidential debate, subsequently canceled when Trump balked at the official “debate commission”‘s unilateral tearing up of the agreed format. The man who would have moderated that debate, Steve Scully, was today indefinitely suspended by C-SPAN after admitting he lied when he said that an accidentally revealing tweet was the result of his account being hacked. (I go back a long way with Mr Scully.) His lie had been not merely accepted but enthusiastically promoted by members of the Blue Cheka, including Clinton flack Joe Lockhart, The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty, and of course the frauds of the “Presidential Debate Commission”. Yet they remain “safe” sources of news at Twitter.
As recently as two years ago, tweeter-in-chief Jack Dorsey felt it politick to dissemble, at least before the US Congress:
I want to start by making something clear: we don’t consider political viewpoints, perspectives, or party affiliation in any of our policies or enforcement decisions. Period. Impartiality is our guiding principle… Twitter will always default to open and free exchange.
