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It’s Not Censorship, It’s a Coordinated Effort

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It’s Not Censorship, It’s a Coordinated Effort
The Twitter logo on a sign at the company's headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2016. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Lee Smith
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Big Tech, social media, and the press used the violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 as a pretext to purge their platforms of conservative figures and Republican officials, most notably President Donald Trump. Amazon, Apple, and Google conspired to deplatform Parler, regarded as a conservative, or free-speech, alternative to Twitter.

Lee Smith
Lee Smith
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Lee Smith is a veteran journalist whose work appears in Real Clear Investigations, the Federalist, and Tablet. He is the author of “The Permanent Coup” and “The Plot Against the President.”
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