Yep Alex Berenson sued and was able to prove that the white house was consistently pushing twitter to ban him until the finally complied and did. I think the scariest thing to me about this is it puts the government in a position to use these companies to violate our first amendment rights. That way they government can say "we aren't violating your free speech rights these companies can do what they want". Meanwhile they are in the back room calling these companies begging them to ban you and who knows what else goes on in these back room conversations. 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-becomes-a-tool-of-government-censors-alex-berenson-twitter-facebook-ban-covid-misinformation-first-amendment-psaki-murthy-section-230-antitrust-11660732095

I’m not seeing anything in your source saying some guy in a White House back room was calling up Twitter to ban this reporter. The article says the Biden administration put pressure on Twitter to stop COVID misinformation.

It sounds like the White House and Twitter were doing their jobs.

The white house is specifically asking why certain people aren't banned yet. Naming this reporter specifically.  If this isn't the white house putting pressure on you I don't know what is. You think it's the Governments job to silence people they believe are spreading disinformation? You do realize the Government is one of the top entities when it comes to spreading disinformation throughout history correct? These are the last people you want in charge of deciding what is or isn't disinformation. I wont even get into all the things they claimed were true only to be proven false later on. 

It's scary to me that people think the Government should be involved in deciding what people can discuss online.

The white house is specifically asking why certain people aren't banned yet. Naming this reporter specifically.  If this isn't the white house putting pressure on you I don't know what is. You think it's the Governments job to silence people they believe are spreading disinformation? You do realize the Government is one of the top entities when it comes to spreading disinformation throughout history correct? These are the last people you want in charge of deciding what is or isn't disinformation. I wont even get into all the things they claimed were true only to be proven false later on. 

It's scary to me that people think the Government should be involved in deciding what people can discuss online.

A link in Jumpin's article led me to another I recommend to everyone. More than Musk it's about the history and necessity of platform moderation and how most every platform that scales ends up adopting similar content standards eventually for a reason:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/15/elon-musk-demonstrates-how-little-he-understands-about-content-moderation/

"As anyone who has lived through (or read up on) the history of content moderation knows, platforms all went through this exact process. The process that Musk thinks no one has actually done. They all started with a fundamental default towards allowing more speech and moderating less. And they all realized over time that it’s a lot more nuanced than that.

They all realized that there are massive trade-offs to every decision, but that some decisions still need to be made in order to stop “making the product worse” and to figure out ways to build “maximal trust” and to be “broadly inclusive.” In other words, for all of Musk’s complaining, Twitter has already done all the work he seems to pretend it hasn’t done. And his “solution” is to go back to square one while ignoring all the people who learned about the pitfalls, challenges, nuances, and trade-offs of the various approaches to dealing with these things… and to pretend that no one has done any work in this area."

The white house is specifically asking why certain people aren't banned yet. Naming this reporter specifically.  If this isn't the white house putting pressure on you I don't know what is. You think it's the Governments job to silence people they believe are spreading disinformation? You do realize the Government is one of the top entities when it comes to spreading disinformation throughout history correct? These are the last people you want in charge of deciding what is or isn't disinformation. I wont even get into all the things they claimed were true only to be proven false later on. 

It's scary to me that people think the Government should be involved in deciding what people can discuss online.