March 24, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| On December 18th last year, Twitter permanently suspended my account and the account run by my organization, American Renaissance. | |
| That very day, we asked why we were suspended and we got the same reply. | |
| Twitter said American Renaissance and I were both, quote, affiliated with a violent extremist group. | |
| We wrote back and we said, that's crazy. | |
| We have nothing to do with violence and don't know anybody who does. | |
| Since then, silence. | |
| No reply from Twitter. | |
| Now, I'm a patient guy, but this was too much. | |
| We are suing Twitter. | |
| American Renaissance and I had Twitter accounts for six years. | |
| We weren't trolls. | |
| We were polite. | |
| We were factual. | |
| And over the years, our two accounts built up more than 70,000 followers. | |
| By Twitter's own reckoning, that many followers are worth about a quarter of a million dollars. | |
| And poof! | |
| One day, all gone. | |
| With this absurd excuse about violence. | |
| Now, I'm sure we said things that the Twitter people thought were insensitive. | |
| And I know that some people say that since Twitter is a private company, it should have the right to kick off anybody it doesn't like. | |
| Well, not so fast. | |
| Not according to a famous California Supreme Court case called Pruneyard Shopping Center v. | |
| Robbins. It's about a shopping center near San Jose, California. | |
| It didn't want to let high school students distribute political literature, but the court said it had to. | |
| The Pruneyard was private, but the court said its public areas were a public forum. | |
| And that the California Constitution guarantees free speech in a public forum, even one that is privately owned. | |
| Well, Twitter is a California company and it's subject to California law. | |
| It's a private company that was set up to be a public forum. | |
| If there is freedom of speech in a shopping center, there sure ought to be freedom of speech on a social network where you're expected to exchange ideas. | |
| And right at the very top of Twitter's Statement of Corporate Values, it says in great big letters, We believe in free expression and believe every voice has the power to impact the world. | |
| Well, either they believe that or they don't. | |
| And the California Supreme Court sure seems to be saying that even if they don't, they are a privately owned public forum and cannot censor speech. | |
| So, we should win. | |
| We have other grounds to sue. | |
| When Amran and I started our accounts six years ago, Twitter listed the only reasons for which they could kick you off. | |
| They were things like you pretend to be someone you aren't, you violate copyright, you publish somebody's passwords or credit card numbers, you do illegal stuff like selling drugs. | |
| These are all good reasons to kick someone off. | |
| But a year after we started using Twitter, they changed their rules. | |
| And they said they could kick you off for any reason or no reason. | |
| We never agreed to that. | |
| They can't unilaterally change a contract and then just cook up some wild story about violence. | |
| They're not getting away with that. | |
| And we have other powerful legal arguments. | |
| We have something called an unreclaim. | |
| And Twitter did what's called an illegal conversion. | |
| If you like, you can read all about it in our complaint, which is posted on our website. | |
| And we have a crackerjack legal team. | |
| We have an experienced free speech litigator and a law school professor who is an expert in communications law. | |
| They have studied this case from every angle, and they think we have a good chance of winning. | |
| They came to us. | |
| Because they believe in free speech and are as angry about this as we are. | |
| They believe this case could be revolutionary because we could win not just for us, but for everyone who uses Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or any other internet platform. | |
| This could be the landmark case that ends censorship by those self-appointed political commissars who really seem to believe that they should decide what you think and what you shouldn't think. | |
| Our lawyers have slashed their rates to the bone, but they can't work for free. | |
| Litigation always costs money, so yes, I'm asking for your help. | |
| Your help to set the internet free. | |
| Your help to teach these arrogant companies a lesson. | |
| Your help to ensure that the First Amendment really means something. | |
| This is a question of principle. | |
| You could disagree with everything I ever said on Twitter, but you should still help us with this lawsuit. | |
| Twitter is saying it has the right to shut up anyone, anytime, even you. | |
| So please... | |
| Click on the link in the YouTube description box to make a tax-deductible contribution to help us win. | |
| Please be generous. | |
| Don't let Twitter censor the Internet. |
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