Twitter’s been accused of silencing conservative voices in favor of leftist ones for a while now. This isn’t going to disabuse anyone of that notion:
Good grief. https://t.co/WydtBRxWSc
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) October 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/917485890515230726
More from the AP:
Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Senate campaign announcement ad has been blocked by Twitter over a statement the abortion rights opponent makes about the sale of fetal tissue for medical research.
Blackburn, who is running for the seat being opened by the retirement of Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, boasts in the ad that she “stopped the sale of baby body parts.” A Twitter representative told the candidate’s vendors on Monday that the statement was “deemed an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction:
Twitter said the Blackburn campaign would be allowed to run the rest of the video if the flagged statement is omitted. While the decision keeps Blackburn from paying to promote the video on Twitter, it doesn’t keep it from being linked from YouTube and other platforms.
https://twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/917486178596720641
What. The. Hell.
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) October 9, 2017
Whoa…this is crazy!!! @twitter @jack https://t.co/twBohhtUWR
— LaurieAnn ??♂️? (@mooshakins) October 9, 2017
Democracy is inflammatory, especially when people are dying. https://t.co/R9U4158S6o
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) October 9, 2017
Wow.
If you don't believe abortion is a religion with these people…
Of all the things to get censorious over. https://t.co/lk51J7kcsK
— AgainstTrumpDude (@TheAmishDude) October 9, 2017
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Blackburn's ad was accurate: https://t.co/7B94Ee4Ee9 pic.twitter.com/DgqwhVjAjz
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) October 9, 2017
"We could clean up the zillion bots who terrorize the place but seems like work so instead we'll just police rote political speech" https://t.co/5i6Yj1OwOf
— kilgore trout was in the loop (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 9, 2017
This stance from Twitter seems REALLY untenable. Who decides which political views are "inflammatory"? https://t.co/TLw9wmUHJD
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) October 9, 2017
If Twitter is going to censor elected officials, it's only a matter of time before elected officials are going to censor Twitter. https://t.co/h6UNSjNquV
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 9, 2017
This is a slippery slope. One Twitter’s been on many times before.
A reminder: Twitter also blocked a pro-life group from promoting their ads a while back https://t.co/6ORkz5DHbw
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) October 9, 2017
Pro-life group alleges Twitter told them they have to delete all tweets supporting defunding Planned Parenthood if they want to advertise pic.twitter.com/Ir5A0NpckD
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) June 27, 2017
I'm sure Twitter blocking Blackburn's video had nothing to do with having an ideological axe to gr…oh (Comms at Twitter) https://t.co/z7cng1FNOR
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2017
.@Twitter openly shames Steve Scalise, who barely survived a Leftist assassin's attack, for not learning his lesson.https://t.co/XwTpv9vGXr
— Stephen Herreid (@StephenHerreid) October 9, 2017
Keep it up, Twitter.
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/917485439136694272
Something tells us Marsha Blackburn will be fine.
<whispers> Blackburn and her campaign team are THRILLED by this. https://t.co/lhAVc16yU8
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) October 9, 2017
.@Twitter shut down our video ad, claiming it's "inflammatory" & "negative." Join me in standing up to Silicon Valley → RETWEET our message! pic.twitter.com/K3w4AMgW6i
— Marsha Blackburn (@VoteMarsha) October 9, 2017
Nevertheless, #ShePersisted. https://t.co/PU7Xw3T3Of
— Adam White (@adamjwhitedc) October 9, 2017
But the same can’t be said for Twitter.
Might be time to pack up the truck and depart Twitter https://t.co/qeznP2oWFZ
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) October 9, 2017
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