Canadian professor Jordan Peterson is a lightning rod for controversy, so it was inevitable that he’d be locked out of Twitter eventually. Twitter says he violated its rules against hateful conduct with his tweet about pride and actor Elliot Page (whom he “deadnamed”). We’re guessing it was the deadnaming (he called him “Ellen Page”) that got him the strike. Here’s the text of the offending tweet:
Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.
Twitter doesn’t mess around when it comes to trans issues, where virtually anything can be considered hateful conduct.
Wow. @jordanbpeterson got a twitter strike. No more twitter until he deletes the tweet. Definitely not a free speech platform at the moment @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/YuBTwnjz5W
— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaFuller) June 29, 2022
Morally and logically insane. How else could this thought even be expressed so as to please the woke Twitter arbiters? https://t.co/YhWyziNxnU
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 29, 2022
The answer is, naturally, that it couldn't. Which is the point. You are forbidden from observing that biological women exist.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 29, 2022
No unapproved opinions allowed.
— YumiBod⚡ (@YumiBod) June 29, 2022
Can't talk about 'dead' people anymore I guess, same thing happened to me a week ago, mentioning the same person.
— The Postal Pisces (@GingerVariant) June 29, 2022
Well as the adults keep adulting 😆
— Russ Drake (@drakester555) June 29, 2022
Well, that seems to be the opposite of free speech.
— Cauleen Marie (@Cauleen2) June 29, 2022
Deadnaming is a sin in the new religion of the Twitter admins.
— Captain LatAm ☯︎ (Happy Avarice Month) (@TweetsJoaquin) June 29, 2022
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Question is if the strike is applied for adding "criminal" or for "deadnaming" Elliot…
— Azrael (@Azrael44550250) June 29, 2022
What part of that is threatening or harassing?
— Ape Lincoln (@K0ba_bad_Ap3) June 29, 2022
Deadnaming. It's against Twitter's terms of service.
— Bonham's Right Foot (@FullMeasureFill) June 29, 2022
It is 100% the trans thing. There are a lot of things you can do on Twitter, but they have a red line at "deadnaming" (particularly celebrities).
— AmishDude (@TheAmishDude) June 29, 2022
When did the term “deadnaming” come into being, anyway? We remember hearing it bandied about a lot when Chelsea Manning was in the news.
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‘NOT a place for discussing ideas.’ Trans writer tweets EPIC thread blasting Twitter for banning people over ‘deadnaming’ https://t.co/wMWN6f5M07
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 26, 2018
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