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Twitter Blocks Marsha Blackburn Campaign Announcement Video for ‘Inflammatory’ Pro-Life Message
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 10/9/17

Posted on 10/10/2017 8:44:11 AM PDT by Liberty7732

Twitter has blocked Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn's (Tenn.) Senate campaign announcement ad, ruling that a pro-life statement was "inflammatory."

At one point in the video, Blackburn, who announced last week that she is running for the Senate in Tennessee, heralded how she "stopped the sale of baby body parts," a reference to her investigation into Planned Parenthood's reported practice of "donating" body parts in return for monetary compensation.

But a Twitter representative told the Blackburn campaign that Twitter blocked the ad from being promoted, calling it "an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction," the Associated Press reported Monday. Twitter said that Blackburn would have to repost the video without the flagged statement in order to advertise.

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KEYWORDS: blackburn; censorship; marshablackburn; searchworks; tennessee; twitter; uncorked
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1 posted on 10/10/2017 8:44:11 AM PDT by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732

Blackburn for Senate 2018! Woo hoo!


2 posted on 10/10/2017 8:47:42 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY.)
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To: Liberty7732

Don’t do any of it but looks to me like theses social media sites are controlled by liberals.
Are any of them neutral on all this crap and stay out of the fray ?


3 posted on 10/10/2017 8:48:31 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Liberty7732

Well, *I* have it on good authority that Twitter only blocks Nazis and white supremacists, so she’s *obviously* a Nazi or something.

/s


4 posted on 10/10/2017 8:49:11 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Bring back lords and kings)
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To: Liberty7732

“...Twitter blocked the ad from being promoted, calling it “an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction...” They failed to add “from liberals, progressives, feminists, etc.”

You had to know that, given Trump’s successful use of Twitter during the campaign, Twitter was going to rein in their use by conservatives in the future...


5 posted on 10/10/2017 8:49:22 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Liberty7732

It gets more and more blatant! Social media arbitrating political speech. The irony is that this will just attract more attention to Blackburn’s message.


6 posted on 10/10/2017 8:49:25 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Liberty7732

Constant bashing of the POTUS does not “evoke strong inflammatory negative reactions”? What the ...! The Twits are FOS.


7 posted on 10/10/2017 8:53:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Second Amendment. NOW more than ever!)
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To: Liberty7732

How many times is this going to get posted?


8 posted on 10/10/2017 8:55:30 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: bigbob
How many times is this going to get posted?

Please lighten up a little. It's the first time I saw it.

9 posted on 10/10/2017 8:56:45 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Liberty7732

Imho, Twitter is pro infanticide.

5.56mm


10 posted on 10/10/2017 8:58:01 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Liberty7732

Why do I have the feeling President Trump will tweet this fact out? Say ‘Blackburn for Senate 2018 was blocked by Twitter because they don’t want you to know PP was selling baby parts’. See if twitter blocks the POTUS.


11 posted on 10/10/2017 9:00:08 AM PDT by wattsgnu
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To: CGASMIA68

“Are any of them neutral on all this crap and stay out of the fray ?”

No, especially the ones that insist they are neutral and stay out of the fray.

They simply judge that those who disagree with the libtard POV are being inflammatory and censor them.


12 posted on 10/10/2017 9:03:46 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: wattsgnu
Are you on Twitter? If so, would you want to tweet that out [great tweet, btw!] and send it to @realDonaldTrump and maybe he would retweet it.
13 posted on 10/10/2017 9:09:25 AM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: Liberty7732

Twitter/Youtube/Google

The new censors. But we give them the power by giving them the monopoly they control.


14 posted on 10/10/2017 9:16:58 AM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: Liberty7732

Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil. Shame on twitter.


15 posted on 10/10/2017 9:25:03 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Liberty7732
For a long time, such activity was described as "political correctness": now, one can see it for what it really is: censorship!

Progressivism is now willing to expose its dark under side, as it boldly censors and excludes all but its own oppressive and controlling ideology!

Progressives, from their 1800's beginnings among academics calling themselves "liberals," were anything but "liberal" in their views--the cultish ideology which has resulted is unyielding in its rejection of all ideas which do not conform to the uniformity demanded by their self-chosen elitists.

16 posted on 10/10/2017 9:38:12 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Liberty7732

The post wasn’t totally blocked. It was still posted. She was just blocked from spending money to promote the tweet. You see. Pro life is is very bad. Pro killing is good.


17 posted on 10/10/2017 10:00:08 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Liberty7732

I’ve wanted Marsha to run for the Senate for YEARS...

I asked her a long time ago to do so...

RUN MARSHA RUN !!!!

Senator Blackburn...

Yeah that sounds GREAT !!!!


18 posted on 10/10/2017 10:22:15 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Liberty7732

the phone number for Marsha’s campaign manager is 615-376-2324


19 posted on 10/10/2017 10:29:30 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Liberty7732; House Atreides; Campion; Grammy; Ingtar; jazusamo; upcountry miss; upchuck
Marsha

Blackburn

for

Senate

Ping

If you'd like to be on or off the Marsha Blackburn ping list, please drop me a FReepmail.

20 posted on 10/10/2017 11:25:43 AM PDT by upchuck (Looking for a new/different job? Try Genealogy. You can't get fired and you can't quit!)
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