‘Crazy’ that Trump was Banned on Twitter But Taliban Remained as It Seized Kabul: Farage.
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Nigel Farage says it is “crazy” that Donald Trump was banned from Twitter but the radical Islamic extremist Taliban remained on the platform even as it stormed Kabul.
Discussing South Africa-born Tesla tycoon Elon Musk’s reported purchase of the microblogging platform Twitter with investigative journalist Tom Bower on his GB News show, Farage welcomed the change as at least a potential win for freedom of speech online.
“I’ll tell you this, Twitter is not the real world and I get that,” the Brexit leader said in response to a viewer’s question.
“But so much of what you read in newspapers, see on television, and hear on radio comes through Twitter — the opinion-formers, the journalists, they are addicted to Twitter, and therefore if Musk is successful in turning Twitter into a genuine beacon of free speech…” he continued, trailing off and launching into an aside about the previous U.S. President.
“Whatever you think of him the idea that Trump was banned from Twitter whilst the Taliban were on Twitter the day they took Kabul is crazy,” he said, earning Bower’s approval.
The fact that “the left are screaming blue murder” about the purchase proves that Musk’s concerns about free speech on the platform are correct, Bower said, with Farage condemning such people as “the illiberal liberals”. Breitbart.
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