We’ll admit that journalist Laura Loomer is a little, um, unconventional, but she’s a difficult case; sure, she literally handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter headquarters after her account was permanently suspended; later, though, we learned that CAIR National had lobbied for her ban from the platform, while Rep. Ilhan Omar, a sitting congresswoman, is treated like a child who just doesn’t know she keeps tweeting things that are anti-Semitic.
Now Laura Loomer has found herself banned from CPAC, or at least had her media credentials stripped. The Wrap reports that Loomer on Friday heckled CNN hall monitor Oliver Darcy in the media room about internet censorship and social media bans … his dogged pursuit of which has troubled us as well (and gotten us blocked by Darcy).
Laura Loomer gets banned from CPAC right in front of me. Why would @CPAC ban a huge Trump supporter?
— Omar Navarro (@RealOmarNavarro) March 2, 2019
Word is she wasn’t banned, necessarily; she was just downgraded from journalist to activist and told she’d have to buy a ticket to get in.
What's the over/under on Laura Loomer chaining herself to the CPAC stage since she was just banned?
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) March 2, 2019
The Daily Beast notes that this means Loomer has been banned from everything from CPAC to … Uber Eats.
"CPAC is just the latest ban for Loomer, who has already been booted from Twitter, PayPal, Uber, Lyft, and even food delivery app Uber Eats" https://t.co/dPlaEGJJTX
— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) March 2, 2019
I still laugh every time Uber Eats is mentioned on the list of things that banned her. https://t.co/iLQOAQPVKB
— neontaster (@neontaster) March 2, 2019
That's awesome.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) March 2, 2019
We have had nothing but bad experiences with Uber Eats. Not sure she’s missing much there.
— ? Not Your Mama Llama ? (@_NotYourMom) March 2, 2019
I kind of want to be banned by Uber Eats…?
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) March 2, 2019
How do you get banned from Uber eats?
— Spencer Schriner (@SchrinerSpencer) March 2, 2019
Yell at your “Muslim” delivery person it seems.
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) March 2, 2019
That'll do it.
— ? Trish Can't Code ? (@wtffiles) March 2, 2019
In her defense I’m sure it’s because it’s owned by Uber and she was banned from Uber but still ?
— Julia Marie (@celestial_chic) March 2, 2019
Every time she tries to open the app pic.twitter.com/qfCLhvHufq
— Eric Silsby (@EricSilsby) March 2, 2019
The NFL should ban her. She just needs to pull a Portnoy
— Ben T (@benht0) March 2, 2019
Not an invalid point:
You can laugh at it all you want but to me this is actually scary. You don't defend her because you don't like her. But when this stuff starts hitting closer to home you start screaming. This is wrong. Period.
— RocknRollMom6 (@RockNRollMom6) March 2, 2019
Apparently, the one social media outlet that hasn’t yet banned her is YouTube, where she posted video of herself trying to talk her way into CPAC for the president’s speech.
Related:
'Incredible'! Laura Loomer tries bold new strategy to persuade Nancy Pelosi on border wall [pics] https://t.co/K3bzPK2Uev
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 14, 2019
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