Ex Secret Service: Twitter Ignores Increased Threats Against Trump; But Hustles to Protect “Other Party”

The CEO of YouTube was threatened on Twitter Thursday. The offender was suspended within seven minutes. Lightning speed.

Meanwhile, serious threats against President Donald Trump’s life linger on the social media platform for days and weeks, unchecked and not forwarded to the Secret Service.

While Twitter’s founder touts big plans to clamp down on violence, very little is done to protect the most powerful man and office in the world.

But what good are new rules, when the old rules are not applied to all?

When Twitter conservatives engage in non-violent ribbing with blue-check-mark liberals and Hollywood’s beautiful people, they get suspended and their tweets deleted.

When liberals openly call for the heads of conservatives — including the President of the United States’ life — those scofflaws are celebrated, their offensive Tweets enshrined and seemingly never removed.

Thursday’s example of the YouTube CEO serves as a perfect example of this.

Enter the Secret Service which monitors Twitter for threats against President Trump and his family. According to a retired member of the Secret Service — who now contracts security work with the agency — Twitter has no policy in place to immediately forward threats against the President to federal law enforcement agencies.

“How these threats are handled shows a bias for the other party,” the Secret Service insider said, referencing liberals are granted far more free speech rights than conservatives. “That can’t be debated.”

Nor does Twitter do much to even police such threats on its own, despite the fancy public rhetoric touting tighter policies on hate speech to make Twitter a safer place to surf.

Yet Twitter says otherwise.

6/ We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them.

— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017

7/ New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.

— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017

But the proof, scraped with the right research tools like the ones independently employed by the Secret Service, simply tell a much different story:

Here is a threat to YouTube's CEO. Let's see how long it takes to get deleted, compared to threats about killing the President's life. pic.twitter.com/aBbowBqfAb

— Thomas Paine (@Thomas1774Paine) October 19, 2017