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Twitter bans conservative author Alex Berenson
The Hill ^ | 08/29/21 01:20 PM EDT | BY OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN

Posted on 08/29/2021 9:27:24 PM PDT by RandFan

Twitter has banned conservative author Alex Berenson due to violations of its COVID-19 misinformation rules, the social media giant confirmed on Sunday.

“The account was permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill.

Berenson said in a Substack post on Saturday that he had been banned from Twitter.

“This was the tweet that did it. Entirely accurate. I can’t wait to hear what a jury will make of this,” he said. “Meantime, guess you’ll be getting more Substacks.”

In a now-deleted tweet, Berenson compared the vaccine to a therapeutic "with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile." He also questioned vaccine mandates.

“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine,” Berenson said in his tweet. “Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity”

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in July, Berenson drew applause for saying the Biden administration was hoping they could “sucker in” 90 percent of the population to get vaccinated.

President Biden's top medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, later said that it was "horrifying" to see people cheer in support of Berenson's comments at CPAC.

The U.S. currently seeing another wave of COVID infections, as the highly contagious delta variant is hitting the unvaccinated.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berenson; bigtech; covid19; freespeech; internet; socialmedia; technotyranny; twitterisevil; vaccine

1 posted on 08/29/2021 9:27:24 PM PDT by RandFan
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2 posted on 08/29/2021 9:36:22 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami
The offending tweet:

This is what happens when China is running things.

3 posted on 08/29/2021 9:46:22 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Censorship destroys trust.

And they wonder why they’re not trusted.


4 posted on 08/29/2021 10:10:37 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: RandFan

Who would have guessed?


5 posted on 08/29/2021 10:11:58 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: TheDon
And they wonder why they’re not trusted.

They don't wonder.

6 posted on 08/29/2021 10:12:46 PM PDT by DSH
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To: RandFan

> It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission.

But that’s exactly what twatters say when anyone points out breakthrough cases. They say the vaccine was never meant to do more than lesson the severity of the symptoms. Why single out this one person?


7 posted on 08/29/2021 10:13:31 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember 2020! No more RINOs! Remember Afghanistan! No more globalists!)
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To: RandFan

Completely unsurprising.

He’s been poking the bear since he was reinstated.


8 posted on 08/29/2021 10:20:18 PM PDT by moehoward (.)
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To: lapsus calami

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/muzzling-the-truth


9 posted on 08/29/2021 10:28:26 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: ArcadeQuarters
Why single out this one person?

He hasn't been singled out. Plenty were deplatformed before him. Plenty more will be deplatformed after him.

10 posted on 08/29/2021 10:28:57 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: RandFan

But the Twitter Taliban account still going strong.....


11 posted on 08/29/2021 10:29:39 PM PDT by cranked
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To: RandFan

Funny, Berensen is actually a Liberal. An honest Liberal.


12 posted on 08/29/2021 10:54:54 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Xiden - Make America Grovel Again...)
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To: RandFan

Leave Twitter
Join Gettr


13 posted on 08/29/2021 11:04:42 PM PDT by Rocko Jack
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To: bagster

“In a now-deleted tweet”

Do you know who deleted the tweet - the author or Twitter?


14 posted on 08/30/2021 12:35:10 AM PDT by LordOddsocks
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To: LordOddsocks
Do you know who deleted the tweet - the author or Twitter?

Homebody got perma-banned.


15 posted on 08/30/2021 12:57:56 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: RandFan

Twitter banned him. What took them so long?


16 posted on 08/30/2021 2:35:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake election, fake president, real deaths.)
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To: lapsus calami

17 posted on 08/30/2021 5:33:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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18 posted on 08/30/2021 5:41:19 AM PDT by sauropod (Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
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To: RandFan

Those who trust in government must not have their misplaced faith corrected. Must protect the hive at all costs.

(Even lemmings are smarter than that.)


19 posted on 08/31/2021 3:11:48 AM PDT by nonsporting (And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed … Galatians 3:29)
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