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A former NYT tech reporter is calling it the `Andy Ngo law`.

https://twitter.com/NellieBowles/status/1465724183044841473

It does seem crafted to gatekeep citizen journalists who are a major thorn in the corporate media's official narrative.

Specifically, Ngo posted a lot of videos of BLM riots, and mugshots of people arrested for said rioting, to show they weren't black and in fact were often teachers, government employees etc. Well the establishment didn't like that at all.

Ngo: "Oregon lawmakers introduced a bill to stop public record access to arrest photographs after I documented who was arrested at the riots last year."

And now Twitter introduces this new policy the day after Jack resigns. Presumably stopping people like Ngo tweeting about arrested people had been a long term desire of the internal faction whose ascent is now complete with the new CEO, so bye bye videos of peaceful protests!

Funny, the moment I first read this I also called it Andy Ngo Law and quipped to a friend that Twitter finally figured out how to shut him down.

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