Bonus: Rep. Jim Banks Discusses Being Censored by Twitter

The Daily Signal

News, Government, Daily News, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rep. Jim Banks, chair of the Republican Study Committee, shares with The Daily Signal how Twitter censored him for calling Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, who now identifies as a woman, a man. The Indiana Republican breaks down why Twitter censored him and what conversations he has had with the social media giant since its censorship. He also explains why it is so important for Americans to pay attention to tech censorship—particularly of a sitting U.S. congressman—and what may be next.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is a bonus episode of the Daily Signal Podcasts for Tuesday, November 2.
0:11.6	I'm Mary Margaret Olahan.
0:13.4	Today I'll be discussing Twitter censorship with Congressman Jim Banks.
0:17.4	I hope you enjoy our conversation.
0:30.1	My guest today is Congressman Jim Banks, a Republican who represents Indiana's third
0:34.8	congressional district. Congressman Banks, thank you so much for joining me today.
0:38.4	Great to be with you. So Congressman Banks, I understand a tweet of yours got you into some hot
0:43.3	water lately. Can you give us a little background on this? What tweet was it and how were you censored?
0:49.6	Well, I'll read it to you. I've got it in front of me. My tweet was simple.
0:55.0	So the title of first four star officer gets taken by a man. So pretty simple, but context is
1:01.6	everything, right? It was a quote tweet. I'll read the quote tweet from the surgeon general who
1:08.0	tweeted, it was an honor to witness Admiral Levine's historic appointment as the first female
1:16.3	four star officer to serve in the US public health service commissioned corps.
1:22.4	And the first openly transgender four star officer to serve in any of the uniformed
1:28.8	services. So let me read my tweet again. My tweet was simply the title of first female four star
1:36.1	officer gets taken by a man. That's using the surgeon general's language and Admiral Levine,
1:42.1	who when she was promoted to four star admiral said I'm proud of you. The first female four star
1:51.2	officer. So my tweet, though, is a is a fact. It is a biological fact that Admiral Levine is a man
2:00.0	who has taken the title of first female four star officer away from young women and young girls
2:08.4	all over this country, who my one day hope to achieve an accomplishment by like being the first
2:13.3	woman this or that. So I was surprised on Saturday morning. I opened my Twitter account
2:18.5	and Twitter had notified me that my account had been locked and gave me a choice,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Daily Signal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Daily Signal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.