Sometimes, Twitter doesn’t shadow ban conservatives. Sometimes, they’re a lot more blatant in their anti-conservative bias. Like today.
If you don’t know Kathleen McKinley, you should. She’s a tweeter beloved by many for being well spoken, polite, and just downright nice. But she’s also a conservative who expresses opinions shared by many conservatives, which, for Twitter, is apparently grounds for losing your tweeting privileges:
If you're looking for @KatMcKinley, the sweetest woman on Twitter today, you won't find her. She has been suspended FOR HATE SPEECH.
— Amelia (@AmeliaHammy) July 27, 2018
And these weren’t even new tweets. One was a year ago and one was a year ago and one was a month ago. So somebody went through her old tweets.
— Amelia (@AmeliaHammy) July 27, 2018
Yes, her tweets are visible, but she’s unable to tweet. Last time she tried to tweet, they added 3 hours to her suspension.
— Amelia (@AmeliaHammy) July 27, 2018
These are the tweets pic.twitter.com/ds0tPNsHhb
— Amelia (@AmeliaHammy) July 27, 2018
Where’s the hate speech? Because we don’t know about you guys, but we’re not seeing it.
From the email to her: pic.twitter.com/QsW9qdUFJe
— Amelia (@AmeliaHammy) July 27, 2018
Kathleen posted about it on Facebook: https://t.co/tct8bgbdHt
— Amelia (@AmeliaHammy) July 27, 2018
Here’s McKinley’s post:
Twitter’s fine with all kinds of crap from liberals. But McKinley’s innocuous tweets are a bridge too far?
Twitter is really going after Conservatives. Today they went after my dear friend @KatMcKinley who is so polite in her online interactions. They suspended her for a tweet she posted in reply to me one day I was arguing with a Hollywood who was denying honour killings. @jack stop! pic.twitter.com/FbgS5GW3xh
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) July 27, 2018
This. Is. INSANE. @Twitter @TwitterSupport @jack WHY are you doing this? @KatMcKinley is one of the nicest people on Twitter. Her posts were factual, not trollish or "unhealthy", but you've suspended her. Keep it up and your stock will drop through the floor. #ShameOnYou pic.twitter.com/RyxKEpufoW
— Pam D (@lifebythecreek) July 27, 2018
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
You’ve got to be kidding me!
— Demetrius Minor (@dminor85) July 27, 2018
You HAVE to be kidding. Absolutely shocking that $twtr is down 17% today. ?
— John D S (@USC2ndAmendment) July 27, 2018
This is insane. @KatMcKinley is literally the nicest person on this G-d forsaken platform. https://t.co/SP0UO202yS
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) July 27, 2018
Get it together, @TwitterSupport.@KatMcKinley is the *last* person on the planet who should ever be lumped in with hate anything.
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) July 27, 2018
I'm not sure who is going through old tweets and reporting people but @KatMcKinley is one of the sweetest people I've met through twitter. @jack fix this.
— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) July 27, 2018
Get it together, Jack.
Repeat after me:
Voicing an Opposing or even Controversial view is not "Hate Speech". @KatMcKinley @jack
— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) July 27, 2018
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text and tweets.
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