Twitter locked Sen. Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after he posted a video of protesters gathered in front of his Kentucky home, shouting that he should “die” and break his “little raggedy wrinkled-ass neck,” the company said.
McConnell’s campaign posted the video Tuesday morning after his camp traded jabs with freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who slammed McConnell after young supporters of his were pictured “groping and choking” a life-sized cardboard cutout of her.
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and liberal Twitter personalities are trying to dox some underage kids for taking a photo with a cutout at the Fancy Farm political picnic and are cheering on thousands of accounts calling for Senator McConnell to ‘break his neck,’ ” the campaign wrote in the tweet that accompanied the video.
“Twitter will allow the words ‘Massacre Mitch’ to trend nationally on their platform. But locks our account for posting actual threats against us. We appealed and Twitter stood by their decision, saying our account will remain locked until we delete the video,” McConnell’s campaign manager Kevin Golden said in a statement.
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4 comments:
The company’s policy prohibits users from sharing content that includes violent threats made against an individual or a group.
There you go.
That means they are not a free speech website. They should be govern just like the news then.
Dear 12:49,
Please know the speaker was counting on just this to happen. By twitter blocking the account, it brought more than enough attention to their skewed policies.
Kind regards,
Paladin
Welcome back, Paladin.
Where you been?
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