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Musk did confront some of the banned accounts on twitter. showing realtime information about somebody s location is inappropriate and i think everyone on this would not like that to be done to them and there is not going to be a distinction between journalists and regular people. you are not special because you are a journalist. he is asking whether he should unsuspend the accounts. majority, 59% say yes. bari weiss, entrusted with the twitter files says i don t need to dwell on how mesmerizing it is to watch those journalists who defended, even celebrated twitter fans under the old regime under the guise of safety now call it censorship and says it infringes on freedom of expression. it did then, as it does now. we have a u.n. spokesperson in the past hour saying they are very disturbed by the arbitrary suspension of journalists on twitter. guys. john: bari weiss has a point
Will then help you get your tax approved so you can keep the doors open. reporter: larry walton is president of the library board. they oppose moving or removing the books, calling it censorship. i feel like we ve kind of stepped back in time, talking about book banning. i never thought i would hear again those words, book banning, and in my own community. so that s disappointing. that s heartbreaking, to be associated with this situation. reporter: across the country, efforts to remove certain books from libraries in schools are gaining momentum. a recent study found more than 1,600 books were banned in more than 5,000 schools in 32 states. more than 40% of the books focus on lgbtq subjects, and more than 60% have primary characters of color or address issues of race. jonathan friedman of the free speech advocacy group pen america sees a troubling trend. we ve seen our citizens calling and filing criminal
You can t have people giving out information that can harm other individuals, and that is the concern. whether it be left or right, whether people like joe rogan or not, it is that. they don t want that information. and spotify does agree with that part because they have removed, they ve removed numerous, dozens of episodes where joe rogan is providing and giving out misinformation. so i don t consider it censorship, i consider it choice. and if you want to talk censorship, read my twitter feed. every time i m on tv there are numerous people asking for me to be canceled and fired. howard: sorry to hear about your mom. spotify did say it removed over 20,000 podcast episodes since the start of the pandemic, so it does say we take out misinformation. but it s not applying that, by and large, to joe rogan. which is why it s interesting because, as you note, i ve been very bad on this throughout the last couple years caving to pressure to take things off because their friends don t want