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Mitch McConnell Suspended From Twitter
foxnews.com ^ | August 7, 2019

Posted on 08/07/2019 8:35:01 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Twitter locked accounts belonging to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's and several prominent conservatives Monday, after they posted videos of left-wing protesters gathered outside McConnell's Kentucky home -- with one demonstrator calling for someone to stab McConnell "in the heart" and for McConnell to break his "raggedy" neck.

The episode prompted the McConnell campaign, known as "Team Mitch," to slam Twitter for political bias, saying the social media platform had effectively blamed the victim.

Meanwhile, observers noted, Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro remains active on Twitter, even after he posted the names of San Antonio residents who donated to Trump.

“This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell," McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden said in a statement. "This is the problem with the speech police in America today."

McConnell, 77, has been resting at home since tripping on his patio fracturing his shoulder on Sunday -- and the Team Mitch account posted images showing him at his residence.

In the wake of this weekend's deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the hashtag "Massacre Mitch" trended on Twitter -- and some activists took their case to McConnell's residence.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: braking; leadermcconnell; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; postedseveraltimes; sidebarabuse; twitter
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Wayback machine didn’t get it. Assuming he put it under Leader McConnellVerified account @senatemajldr


21 posted on 08/07/2019 9:55:10 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Helicondelta

Twitter needs to go. Burn it to the ground.

That’s all the left understands... destruction!


22 posted on 08/07/2019 10:02:05 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: Antoninus

DEPLATFORMING IS NOT FREE ASSOCIATION OR FREE SPEECH!!! I don’t understand why none of Facebook’s, Twitter’s and YouTube’s censorship victims have sued. These companies market the monetization of their products. Unless clear, unambiguous, evenly enforced rules define what constitutes a violation of service, they are reclaiming a sold product without compensation. Deplatforming is every bit as absurd as a hardware store taking the bolts out of your seaside deck because they didn’t like who was or wasn’t getting married on it.


23 posted on 08/07/2019 10:03:41 PM PDT by dangus
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To: pacificus

Dorsey doesn’t understand what’s coming.

Twitter, Google, Fake Book, do not overrule the Constitution...

They all need to go NOW!

Over finished...post-facto!


24 posted on 08/07/2019 10:06:33 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: House Atreides

Free republic rules

In short Screw all other websites.

Thank you Jim !


25 posted on 08/07/2019 10:07:06 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Helicondelta

Wow, what a bunch of idiots at Twitter Inc.


26 posted on 08/07/2019 10:12:52 PM PDT by Crucial
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searching for the video. A number of left wing sites say it had profanity. The Reddit lefties are claiming Twitter are covering for McConnell.

they sure have a twisted view of the world

27 posted on 08/07/2019 10:20:14 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Gene Eric

oh you have no idea how tight the screws can be turned on Twitter... they are rife with fraudulent misrepresentation and very very liable both civilly and criminally for it


28 posted on 08/07/2019 10:45:54 PM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Helicondelta

Come on cowardly Mitch. You’ll the leader of the Senate, hold some damned hearings into Twitter, then Google, facebook, and other hate-filled anti-American social media operations.

There are a lot of high level tech developer defectors out there now who should be witnesses in one major set of hearings, not one here and one there.


29 posted on 08/07/2019 11:00:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: thoughtomator

Agreed. It would be good to set the screws in motion — providing it doesn’t involve the congressional kabuki theater.

Since I have your ear, both Comcast and ATT shouldn’t have licensed control of both news/media and the telecom infrastructure. I prefer DOJ deal with this conflict first.


30 posted on 08/07/2019 11:11:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
I am 62. Technically very adept. First used the primitive internet in the late 1970's. Very well educated, intensely interested in politics.

Pretty much ditto.

However - the sound of the guns is on Twitter, and you ride to the sound of the guns.

Took 5-6 weeks, but I was all squared away to fight in the 2016 election on Twitter.

BTW - I've been on FR since March 1997.

31 posted on 08/07/2019 11:12:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: deadrock
Trump gets his message out unmolested via Twitter. So, there’s that.

Small comfort. Given opportune timing they will. The fact that they shut McConnell down, leader of the Senate should be sobering to everyone.

Maybe that will spur congress into action.

32 posted on 08/07/2019 11:14:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Helicondelta

Unbeleivable.


33 posted on 08/07/2019 11:18:25 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Helicondelta

McConnell - another in the long list of compromised Senate majority leaders, a la Trent Lott, Bill Frist. I have no sympathy for this cuck. Someone somewhere has a video of McConnell doing something untoward.


34 posted on 08/07/2019 11:25:34 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Helicondelta

well that’s one way to provoke action against your company from the top echelons of government.


35 posted on 08/07/2019 11:34:56 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Helicondelta

Unbelievable.

Nothing to see here. Just move along now...


36 posted on 08/08/2019 1:11:15 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: EinNYC
I don’t do Twitter, but it seems there could be a conservative-run alternative to Twitter. Why hasn’t some conservative group been working on this?

Why should conservatives be kicked to some dark corner of the web only to preach to the choir while liberals are allowed unrestricted access to the popular websites enjoyed by millions?

37 posted on 08/08/2019 1:16:07 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

seriously, screw twitter. Liberals can call conservatives every name under the sun but when the reverse happens, some dweeb sitting in a cave in Silicon Valley can pull the plug. I got permanently suspended b/c I engaged at the very same level some idiot was engaging with me. Reddit has ‘quarantined’ The Donald. Lou Dobbs is 100 percent right there’s a digital civil war. Thank God for Free Republic, but I’m quite sure they’re coming after this site too.


38 posted on 08/08/2019 1:22:09 AM PDT by gogulls (frequent lurker since 2000 recount)
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To: gogulls

I left Twitter recently because it’s just too toxic. I don’t see where it has any value to me. It’s nothing but hostility and I think it’s contributing to the rising levels of rage throughout the country.


39 posted on 08/08/2019 2:08:43 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Helicondelta

When they take away all the guns, only the criminals will have them. When they take away all the twitter accounts, only the liberals/socialists will have them.

The left has been trying to cut off any conservative talk in public for years. I believe this is why they’ve been pushing for twitter, facebook, or any other blogs that can be neutralized so only their lies can get out.

rwood

rwood


40 posted on 08/08/2019 2:10:16 AM PDT by Redwood71
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