SDNY/1oo CENTRE STREET, Aug 23 – Luigi
Mangione pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York on August 13; Inner City
Press live tweeted it here.
Having most recently fought and filed for wider access to
the still-scheduled New York State trial set to begin on
September 8 now Inner City Press will continue to focus on
this Federal sentencing, and the still-possible NYS trial.
But on August 23 Inner City Press
noticed that a search for "Luigi Mangione" on TikTok
repeatedly drew this: "No results found This phrase may be
associated with behavior or content that violates our
guidelines. Promoting a safe and positive experience is
TikTok's top priority. For more information, we invite you
to review our Community Guidelines."
With people presenting TikTok as,
among other things, a news platform, this censorship seems
strange.
From the Community Guidelines: "We don’t
allow threats, encouragement or glorification of violence,
promotion of crime, or instructions on how to commit
harmful acts. Hate Speech and Hateful Behavior: We don’t
allow content that promotes hate or attacks people based
on protected attributes like race, religion, gender, or
sexual orientation. Violent and Hateful Organizations and
Individuals: We don’t allow people or groups that promote
violence or hate, including violent extremists, criminal
organizations, or those responsible for mass violence.
Supporting, recruiting for, or promoting these entities is
also prohibited."
So covering a court case about
Mangione, or the many terrorism defendants in SDNY and
others Federal courts, is deemed "promote violence or hate, including violent
extremists, criminal organizations, or those responsible
for mass violence"?
Earlier in the
case, Inner City Press had all of its books, including
on Mangione and Sean Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell,
removed from Amazon on similar logic. After pushing back
online for weeks, it was reversed without explanation or
apology.
Who has the interest to pursue this with
TikTok? To ask the business titans who bought / "saved"
TikTok? Or, what pro bono attorney would like to
challenge the blocking or disappearing of journalism
about Mangione? @InnerCityPresstiktok has standing,
here, and... "DMs open."
More Aug 23 analysis on media titans and
politicians' role on X for Subscribers here
and Substack here
Who this benefits, other than fee-charging
line-sitting companies, is unclear. At a
minimum, or really as a first step to
getting this reversed, it must be
disclosed who made this decision, and why.
On July
18 Inner City Press streamed this
vlog on the topic; here is its
letter to Justice Carro, on DocumentCloud
since NYS has no PACER, here.
July 18 more on
X for Subscribers here
and Substack here.
And on
July 31, Mangione's lawyers Karen Friedman
Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan
wrote in.
July 31
more on X for Subscribers here
and Substack here.
On August
3, the Office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
responded, saying they played no rule on
OCA's July 17 "Access" plan - but notably
NOT saying if they favor an overflow room
as existed in their Trump prosecution.
August 3
more on X for Subscribers here
and Substack here
