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Sinclair incorporates other people's reactions to his cause into his non-fiction works, fostering objectivity

Sinclair criticizes newspapers as ultra-conservative and supporting the political and economic powers that be, or as sensational tabloids practising yellow journalism, such as newspapers run by William Randolph Hearst.

In both cases, their purpose is to promote the business interests of the paper's owners, the owner's bankers, and/or the paper's advertisers. This is accomplished in several ways; among them: The publishers tell the editors what can and cannot be printed.

Journalists routinely invent stories. To stimulate circulation, newspapers sensationalize trivial stories and destroy lives and reputations. Errors and slanders are never retracted, or the retraction is buried in the paper months later.

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Russian internet trolls ran an incredibly popular Twitter account that claimed to belong to the Tennessee Republican Party that managed to fool a number of celebrities, politicians, Trump campaign staffers and supporters.

The state's real Republican Party alerted Twitter multiple times that the account, known as @TEN_GOP, was fake.

The social media company, however, took nearly a year to take down the account. Created in November 2015, the account managed to garner about 136,000 followers before it was "permanently suspended" in late August this year.

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This is called smoke and in Revelation it comes out of a pit with a specific in mind. When the Christ was murdered the people wot dunnit had due regard for the Sabbath. Was this a classic case for disbelief any more heinous than the recent revelations of matters more mundane?

But happened so long ago. This is more recent:

“Twitter wholeheartedly condemns the recent tweets by Donald Trump towards North Korea. Twitter is a platform for global voices to come together.

And though we are fierce advocates of free speech, we cannot stand idly by while our platform is used for harassment of another human or a sovereign nation.

We expect all our users to abide by the terms of service they agreed to when they signed up for accounts. For this reason, we are putting a 24 hour ban on the @realDonaldTrump account. Once the offending tweets are deleted the account will be reactivated in 24 hours. Should the same offence recur we reserve the right to institute another temporary ban or ban the account completely. These rules apply to all users. Cheers, Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO.”

One imagines the press room at the white house can plug into the Twitter feed any time it likes, citing that same freedom of speech. But where does a company offering a news service get the right to curtail the freedom of speech of a United States President?

I would ask you to consider the voices that have been silenced. The voices that have disappeared from Twitter because of the hatred and the abuse. Those voices aren’t free. Those voices have been caged. Twitter has become an engine for further marginalizing the marginalized.

 Mike Monteiro  an advocate for denial of speech