Alexey Navalny
Russian opposition and Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny said Twitter’s move was “an unacceptable act of censorship.” In a lengthy thread posted to Twitter Navalny argued that people are allowed to give him death threats every day and yet face no consequence or retribution from the platform while obviously violating the platform’s policies. He also pointed to cold-blooded murderers such as Putin, Maduro, and Medvedev are allowed to be on the platform and use it as a “troll factory.”
1. I think that the ban of Donald Trump on Twitter is an unacceptable act of censorship (THREAD)
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021
3. The election is a straightforward and competitive process. You can participate in it, you can appeal against the results, they're being monitored by millions of people. The ban on Twitter is a decision of people we don't know in accordance with a procedure we don't know.
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021
5. Don't tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules. I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn't ban anyone (not that I ask for it).
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021
7. Those who denied COVID-19 exist freely and communicate on Twitter. Their words have cost thousands of lives. And yet, it was Trump who got banned publicly and ostentatiously. Such selectivity indicates that this was an act of censorship.
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021
9. If you replace "Trump" with "Navalny" in today's discussion, you will get an 80% accurate Kremlin's answer as to why my name can't be mentioned on Russian TV and I shouldn't be allowed to participate in any elections.
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021
11. If @twitter and @jack want to do things right, they need to create some sort of a committee that can make such decisions. We need to know the names of the members of this committee, understand how it works, how its members vote and how we can appeal against their decisions.
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021
