Nancy Mace is my hero of the day, not just because she made Vijaya squirm but because she brought so many points out in the open and on record. And she was articulate and professional with just the right amount of salty.
FWIW, for the most part, Congressional hearings are staged and all for show. "Witnesses" usually are apprised of questions well in advance of the hearings. Even if this was "real," and not staged, one thing we have learned over the years is that Congressional hearings almost never result in meaningful changes in the way the Empire rules over us. But they do put on a good show, do they not?
The most important thing is to stop the shots, and then work on fixing things, so this is progress. We have to welcome everyone.
That said, she was vaccine-injured in May, 2021 and since then there have been 360 million vaccine injections in the United States. Couldn't she have spoken out a little sooner?
Congressional hearings have been repeatedly and consistently censored for years now. It's routine. No reasons (sometimes false reasons) are typically given.
Lets remember that whatever is steering these actions has no qualms playing both sides.
Discredit governments and highlight their immense tyrannical reach to lead people to where?
Somehow I doubt these leads to maximized decentralized decision making and maximizing of responsibility on the small scale.
Glad to see this is so blatantly out in the open, after years of knowing, but after all the curveballs of the past years…I feel a sense of trying to steel myself for whatever other trickery is coming.
REP. NANCY MACE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Twitter files* were not just about Hunter Biden's laptop, Twitter files make it apparent Twitter worked overtime to suppress accurate covid information. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya** is a professor of medicine at Stanford who once tweeted an article he wrote about natural immunity. Thanks to Elon Musk's release of the Twitter files we learned some of his tweets were tagged with the label of Trends Blacklist. Apparently the views of a Stanford doctor are disinformation to you people.
I along with many Americans have long-term effects from covid. Not only was I a long hauler but I have effects from the vaccine. It wasn't the first shot but it was the second shot that I now developed asthma that has never gone away since I had the second shot. I have tremors in my left hand and I have the occasional heart pain that no doctor can explain and I've had a battery of tests.
I find it extremely alarming Twitter's unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC. I have great regrets about getting the shot because of the health issues that I now have that I don't think are ever going to go away. And I know that I'm not the only American who has those kinds of concerns.
Another example of what Twitter has done to censor folks is uh from Dr. Martin Kulldorff*** a Harvard educated epidemiologist who once tweeted "covid vaccines are important for high-risk people and their caretakers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it, nor children." The Twitter files reveal this tweet was deemed false information because it ran contrary to the CDC. So my first question this morning of Ms. Gadde,**** may I ask of you, where did you go to medical school?
VIJAYA GADDE: I did not go to medical school.
REP. NANCY MACE: I'm sorry?
VIJAYA GADDE: I did not go to medical school.
REP. NANCY MACE: That's what I thought. Why do you think you or anyone else at Twitter had the medical expertise to censor a doctor's expert opinion?
VIJAYA GADDE: Our policies regarding covid were designed to protect individuals. We were seeing—
REP. NANCY MACE: You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated
doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world and you silence those voices. My next question is, did the U.S. government oh, excuse me I have another chart I want to show you Ms. Gadde. I have another tweet by someone with a following of a full 18,000 followers. This person put a chart from the CDC on Twitter, it's the cdc's own at data so it's accurate by your standards, and you
all labeled this as misleading. You're not a doctor, right, Ms. Gadde?
VIJAYA GADDE: No I'm not.
REP. NANCY MACE: OK. What makes you think you or anyone else of Twitter have the medical expertise to censor actual, accurate CDC data?
VIJAYA GADDE: I'm not familiar with these particular situations.
REP. NANCY MACE: Yeah I'm sure you're not, but this is what Twitter did, they labeled this as inaccurate. It is the government's own data. It's ridiculous that we're even having to have this conversation today. It's not just about the laptop, this is about medical advice that expert doctors were trying to give Americans because social media companies like Twitter were silencing their voices. I have another question, my last one for you Ms. Gadde. Did the U.S government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to pressure Twitter to moderate or censor certain tweets, yes or no?
VIJAYA GADDE: We have a program—
REP. NANCY MACE: Did the U.S government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain tweets, yes or no?
VIJAYA GADDE: We receive legal demands to remove content from the platform from the U.S government and governments all around the world, those are published on a third party website and anyone can review them.
REP. NANCY MACE: Thank God for Matt Taibbi* thank God for Elon Musk for allowing to show us in the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put Real Americans lives in danger because they didn't have that information.
4:14
[END OF EXCERPT]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Nancy Mace is a Republican representing South Carolina's First Congressional District
* The Twitter files were Twitter's internal documents on censorship which Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, gave to two independent journalists, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. See
He is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration which states "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." https://gbdeclaration.org
"Martin Kulldorff is an epidemiologist and biostatistician. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard University (on leave) and a Fellow at the Academy of Science and Freedom. His research focuses on infectious disease outbreaks and the monitoring of vaccine and drug safety, for which he has developed the free SaTScan, TreeScan, and RSequential software. Co-Author of the Great Barrington Declaration."
**** Vijaya Gadde is former chief legal officer of Twitter.
* Matt Taibbbi is an investigative journalist who reported on the Twitter files. His blog is https://www.racket.news/about
Nancy Mace is my hero of the day, not just because she made Vijaya squirm but because she brought so many points out in the open and on record. And she was articulate and professional with just the right amount of salty.
Absolutely! Best thing I've ever watched on C-SPAN well worth the 5 minutes!
I'm trying to live a Google-free life, so here's the interview on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/v28s740-wow-gop-rep-nancy-mace-rips-into-fired-twitter-officials.html
Thanks you for that one! I worry google will censor the original so I'm grateful that Rumble has a version of it!
#livefreeofgoogle
FWIW, for the most part, Congressional hearings are staged and all for show. "Witnesses" usually are apprised of questions well in advance of the hearings. Even if this was "real," and not staged, one thing we have learned over the years is that Congressional hearings almost never result in meaningful changes in the way the Empire rules over us. But they do put on a good show, do they not?
This was a better show than most. Any where someone admits to vaccine injuries in that manner always is...
Thank you, Amy, wow this was something tremendous to watch. It gives me great heart. Great, great heart.
Props to Mace!
Yeah! What’s in a name!
The most important thing is to stop the shots, and then work on fixing things, so this is progress. We have to welcome everyone.
That said, she was vaccine-injured in May, 2021 and since then there have been 360 million vaccine injections in the United States. Couldn't she have spoken out a little sooner?
Congressional hearings have been repeatedly and consistently censored for years now. It's routine. No reasons (sometimes false reasons) are typically given.
Lets remember that whatever is steering these actions has no qualms playing both sides.
Discredit governments and highlight their immense tyrannical reach to lead people to where?
Somehow I doubt these leads to maximized decentralized decision making and maximizing of responsibility on the small scale.
Glad to see this is so blatantly out in the open, after years of knowing, but after all the curveballs of the past years…I feel a sense of trying to steel myself for whatever other trickery is coming.
For those who don't do video:
US Rep. Nancy Mace Speaks at Oversight Hearing on Twitter Censorship
posted February 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJJ483kvGQ
TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT
REP. NANCY MACE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Twitter files* were not just about Hunter Biden's laptop, Twitter files make it apparent Twitter worked overtime to suppress accurate covid information. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya** is a professor of medicine at Stanford who once tweeted an article he wrote about natural immunity. Thanks to Elon Musk's release of the Twitter files we learned some of his tweets were tagged with the label of Trends Blacklist. Apparently the views of a Stanford doctor are disinformation to you people.
I along with many Americans have long-term effects from covid. Not only was I a long hauler but I have effects from the vaccine. It wasn't the first shot but it was the second shot that I now developed asthma that has never gone away since I had the second shot. I have tremors in my left hand and I have the occasional heart pain that no doctor can explain and I've had a battery of tests.
I find it extremely alarming Twitter's unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC. I have great regrets about getting the shot because of the health issues that I now have that I don't think are ever going to go away. And I know that I'm not the only American who has those kinds of concerns.
Another example of what Twitter has done to censor folks is uh from Dr. Martin Kulldorff*** a Harvard educated epidemiologist who once tweeted "covid vaccines are important for high-risk people and their caretakers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it, nor children." The Twitter files reveal this tweet was deemed false information because it ran contrary to the CDC. So my first question this morning of Ms. Gadde,**** may I ask of you, where did you go to medical school?
VIJAYA GADDE: I did not go to medical school.
REP. NANCY MACE: I'm sorry?
VIJAYA GADDE: I did not go to medical school.
REP. NANCY MACE: That's what I thought. Why do you think you or anyone else at Twitter had the medical expertise to censor a doctor's expert opinion?
VIJAYA GADDE: Our policies regarding covid were designed to protect individuals. We were seeing—
REP. NANCY MACE: You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated
doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world and you silence those voices. My next question is, did the U.S. government oh, excuse me I have another chart I want to show you Ms. Gadde. I have another tweet by someone with a following of a full 18,000 followers. This person put a chart from the CDC on Twitter, it's the cdc's own at data so it's accurate by your standards, and you
all labeled this as misleading. You're not a doctor, right, Ms. Gadde?
VIJAYA GADDE: No I'm not.
REP. NANCY MACE: OK. What makes you think you or anyone else of Twitter have the medical expertise to censor actual, accurate CDC data?
VIJAYA GADDE: I'm not familiar with these particular situations.
REP. NANCY MACE: Yeah I'm sure you're not, but this is what Twitter did, they labeled this as inaccurate. It is the government's own data. It's ridiculous that we're even having to have this conversation today. It's not just about the laptop, this is about medical advice that expert doctors were trying to give Americans because social media companies like Twitter were silencing their voices. I have another question, my last one for you Ms. Gadde. Did the U.S government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to pressure Twitter to moderate or censor certain tweets, yes or no?
VIJAYA GADDE: We have a program—
REP. NANCY MACE: Did the U.S government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain tweets, yes or no?
VIJAYA GADDE: We receive legal demands to remove content from the platform from the U.S government and governments all around the world, those are published on a third party website and anyone can review them.
REP. NANCY MACE: Thank God for Matt Taibbi* thank God for Elon Musk for allowing to show us in the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put Real Americans lives in danger because they didn't have that information.
4:14
[END OF EXCERPT]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Nancy Mace is a Republican representing South Carolina's First Congressional District
Her webpage is https://mace.house.gov
Her YouTube page is https://www.youtube.com/@RepNancyMace/
* The Twitter files were Twitter's internal documents on censorship which Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, gave to two independent journalists, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. See
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394
and see
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600
** Dr. Jay Bhattacharya https://profiles.stanford.edu/jay-bhattacharya
He is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration which states "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." https://gbdeclaration.org
*** Dr. Martin Kulldorff. According to https://brownstone.org/author/martin-kulldorff/
"Martin Kulldorff is an epidemiologist and biostatistician. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard University (on leave) and a Fellow at the Academy of Science and Freedom. His research focuses on infectious disease outbreaks and the monitoring of vaccine and drug safety, for which he has developed the free SaTScan, TreeScan, and RSequential software. Co-Author of the Great Barrington Declaration."
**** Vijaya Gadde is former chief legal officer of Twitter.
* Matt Taibbbi is an investigative journalist who reported on the Twitter files. His blog is https://www.racket.news/about
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