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Yes, you heard correctly. Early Thursday, I was informed by Twitter authorities that my “account was locked” due to a post/reply that “violated our rules against hateful speech.” In that reply to a post from an Israeli account, I said how I thought that terrorists should be treated by the Israelis. My reply was explicit, and the Twitter censors deemed it hateful. They locked my account for a full week.
Now, most of us are quite familiar with which group of people/authors are most likely to reference and object to what they deem to be “hate speech.” That would be people on the Left. Those are the ones who ran Twitter 1.0, censored the speech of conservatives, and de-platformed the sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump.
It seems that, even after Elon Musk bought Twitter, took it private, and fired half the staff, some of those 1.0 censors remain to silence conservatives who tell the truth on X/Twitter. I told the truth in my reply, and the censors locked my account for a full week.
I gave that some thought, and it occurred to me that my account was locked right before the most momentous election in my long lifetime. I will not be able to post, comment, follow, or unfollow on Twitter until after the election. The other two times I got sent to “jail” for so-called “hateful speech,” I was only suspended for 48 hours. This week-long suspension is very suspicious, as it silences me during the election. I would not be surprised if this was not intentional on the part of the 1.0 censors, and I wonder if other Twitter accounts are being treated in a similar fashion.
But the thing that makes me the most suspicious is the fact that the offending comment was made TEN DAYS AGO. They waited until Thursday the 31st to suspend me. I wonder if they did that on purpose, to put me out of action around the election.
Knowing the Left, that would be exactly what they would do. It seems that I do have some freedom of speech/action in spite of my suspension, though. Let’s try an experiment here. How about my followers and readers here, who have Twitter accounts, post over there and link to this post so I can tell my story to my over 7,000 Twitter followers? Who is willing to risk their own suspension to get the truth out?
I admire all the followers of my blog, who have stuck with me for 24 years. Seeing as next week’s election could determine life or death for America as founded, let’s be brave. I plan to link to this post on my account at Truth Social. Let’s Go!!!!!
[Originally posted at RushBabe49.com]
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Is there a reason you didn't include the contents of your tweet in this telling?
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That is really terrible.
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It looks as if the left still has some embedded moles in Twitter. Elon, you ain't finished the job yet . . .
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Elon fired a bunch, but there were probably tons of backdoors built in that lets external actors do mischief.
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The only time I ever got thrown in Twitter jail was for 12 hours where I could just read it but I couldn't post. I politely ask a guy to kill himself. One of his friends told him to report me. lol I mean I wasn't going to insist on it. It was up to him. lol
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