{"id":327350,"date":"2019-11-01T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=327350"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:50:58","slug":"witters-ban-on-politicalads-is-just-more-censorship-of-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/01\/witters-ban-on-politicalads-is-just-more-censorship-of-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s Ban on \u201cPolitical\u201d Ads Is Just More Censorship of Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Have you heard that — what is it? — Twitter or Facebook has made the decision to cancel all political advertising? Yeah. Jack Dorsey, Twitter\u2019s canceling all political advertising. This is being done in response to a bunch of leftists upset that conservatives and Republicans have been buying political ads on Twitter. And they\u2019re doing it on the basis that money is not speech. It isn\u2019t fair! And Twitter is being used. And so Jack Dorsey: Okay, we\u2019re gonna cancel all political ads on the basis that it\u2019s unfair because money isn\u2019t speech.<\/p>\n

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Now, Facebook has not made the decision. Facebook is gonna continue to take ads. Zuckerberg is under intense pressure. The same tech bloggers that I read and the leftist power structure are now ganging up on Zuckerberg<\/a> and accusing him of being a closet conservative because he will not ban advertising.<\/p>\n

My point is this. The left has been attempting to ban conservative, Republican political advertising for as long as I\u2019ve been paying attention. And every court where every one of these cases has ended up has said, “You can\u2019t. The First Amendment. Money equals speech. It doesn\u2019t matter who has money and who doesn\u2019t. It doesn\u2019t matter where the people who have it, where they get it. It doesn\u2019t matter if they get it from donations. It doesn\u2019t matter if they get it from their back pocket. Money equals speech.”<\/p>\n

It does. And just because some people don\u2019t have as much as others doesn\u2019t mean the people who have money cannot use it to get the word out. How else are you gonna compete with the Drive-By Media, for example? Well, where is this gonna end up, since now Twitter and Jack Dorsey have effectively announced the end of political advertising — and let me tell you, it\u2019s not gonna end liberalism on Twitter. Liberalism is gonna live and thrive. It just won\u2019t look like advertising, but it\u2019s gonna be nothing but liberal opinion, leftist opinion.<\/p>\n

And any attempt to counter it, since Twitter is biased against conservative content, the only way to challenge it has been to buy ads on Twitter. Now that they\u2019re gonna cancel it, guess what? That\u2019s gonna be used as a precedent to start banning conservative political ads everywhere, not just Twitter, in an effort to deny all of us our access to the free speech clause of the First Amendment in the form of paid advertising.<\/p>\n

These people cannot deal with opposition. They cannot and will not deal with opposing point of view. They have no desire to enter the arena of ideas and get into a debate. I watched Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon showed up on CNN today. Or maybe it was last night. Maybe it was tape. Steve Bannon showed up with Anderson Cooper to try to defend Trump on this whole impeachment thing.<\/p>\n