{"id":129118,"date":"2019-10-03T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=129118"},"modified":"2019-10-03T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:26:57","slug":"twitter-improperly-censors-trumps-viral-biden-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=129118","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Improperly Censors Trump&#8217;s Viral Biden Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Twitter Removes Viral Biden Meme Posted By Trump<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Nickelback-themed video showed Biden &amp; son meeting with Ukraine gas exec.<\/h3>\n<p>by Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nSummit News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter removed a viral meme posted by President Trump which highlighted Joe Biden\u2019s duplicity on his son\u2019s business dealings in response to a claim by the copyright owner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=tbaCJ28g\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=tbaCJ28g\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=kyVGpAJR 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=kyVGpAJR 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=kyVGpAJR 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=kyVGpAJR 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=kyVGpAJR 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg?itok=tbaCJ28g 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/031019meme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ec4a2c8f-e73a-454e-bf47-72c845cbcd7d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meme showed\u00a0<strong>Biden denying that he had ever spoken to his son Hunter about the latter\u2019s overseas business dealings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside id=\"my_spring1\"><\/aside>\n<p>The clip then cuts to a Nickelback video with the lyrics, \u201cLook at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A photograph of Biden, his son Hunter, and a man identified as a \u201cUkraine gas exec\u201d on a golf course\u00a0<\/strong>together appears on screen with hearts drawn around their heads.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like Nickelback killed the meme! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v28wzTQCi3\">pic.twitter.com\/v28wzTQCi3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\/status\/1179717725138161665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>The meme was removed by Twitter this morning in response to a request from the copyright owner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside id=\"in-content-dianomi\" class=\"placement placement-embedded placement-dianomi\"><\/aside>\n<p>Warner Media Group owns the rights to Nickelback\u2019s music and it is likely they who asked Twitter to take it down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The copyright claim is completely without merit as the meme is clearly transformative and therefore fair use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This clearly seems like a political move to prevent more people from seeing the meme and uncovering Biden\u2019s duplicity.<\/p>\n<p>An alternate version appears below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/liNane5wGr\">pic.twitter.com\/liNane5wGr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ted Bracewell (@Tedakin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tedakin\/status\/1179679927219736581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/10\/03\/twitter-removes-viral-biden-meme-posted-by-trump\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/10\/03\/twitter-removes-viral-biden-meme-posted-by-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Removes Viral Biden Meme Posted By Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}