Gettr CEO said that Twitter blocked the import of tweets, implying that it became a publisher

Jason Miller, CEO of social media platform Gettr, issued a statement on Saturday TwitterThe ability to prevent users from importing tweets into Gettr.

Miller, former senior consultant Donald Trump, It is recommended that stopping such importing will make Twitter the “owner” of the content and thus the “poster responsible for the content” on its platform.

“Twitter seems to be trying to do both-at the same time claiming that Twitter users own their tweets, so that Twitter can exempt its content review activities in accordance with Article 230 of the Communications Standards Act, but now claims to have ownership of its users’ content By preventing its users’ ability to obtain copies of their content.”

Miller added: “Twitter has to decide: does it own everyone’s tweets, so is it the publisher responsible for the content, or does the user own their original posts?”

Gettr was launched on July 4 and the company claims to exceed One million users joined in the first three days.

“We believe our First Amendment is very important, which is why we want to create this platform where people can get together, they can have these debates, and you won’t be taken off the platform just for expressing political views. “Miller told reporter Scott Tuman that according to reports ABC 13 Virginia News.

Miller said one thing Gettr is proud of is that the site relies on freedom of speech.

He said: “If you believe in freedom of speech, if you reject this concept of abolishing culture, if you like excellent technology, you don’t think we should be influenced by inferior or junior universities. Only the Silicon Valley oligarchs can have some illusions, and then join us.”

Weekly newspaper Contacted a Twitter representative for comment, but has not yet received a response.

Politico reported many similarities between Gettr and Twitter, including popular hashtags and short posts. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment to Politico on whether Gettr would violate any of its policies by allowing users to scrape data from Twitter.