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Senator Rick Scott Unironically Calls out Big Tech for Wrongful Right-Wing Censorship

“You allow murderous dictators all around the world to freely use your platform”

3 min readOct 28, 2020

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On October 28, 2020, Rick Scott comfortably sat in on his Zoom call to swing his pole of justice down on big tech censorship policies.

“Politifact is clearly a liberal media group.” He said. “You allow dangerous dictators on your platform.”

Trying to do some research, circa 3 seconds after Rick Scott uttered those words. Source: Thanks Google!

I, like most people, have never been under the impression that there were kind dictators. In fact, when I went ahead and “Felt Lucky”, I landed on an interesting Wikipedia page:

Ah, good old benevolence. Never a better way to ruin an otherwise nice word. Source: Wikipedia.

The first person listed was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. For the uninitiated, he was an architect for the genocides Turkey committed against the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greek. 100 years later, a Turkish puppet state is still attempting to exterminate ethnic Armenians.

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Anthony Andranik Moumjian
Anthony Andranik Moumjian

Written by Anthony Andranik Moumjian

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