Posted on 08/10/2018 5:03:31 PM PDT by markomalley
Twitter has banned both the official verified account for the Proud Boys and the account belonging to their founder, comedian and CRTV host Gavin McInnes.
Twitter also banned the accounts belonging to The Proud Boys Girls and Kyle Chapman, who is better known online as Based Stickman.
The suspensions are permanent, though no reason was provided. All of the accounts appear to have been banned at the same time.
The account holders were all warned that if they attempt to create new accounts, those will also be banned.
“This is all a coordinated attack to prevent Trump from getting re-elected. It’s pointless however because he’s already won and ironically, it’s because of moves like this,” McInnes told Gateway Pundit.
The person running the official Proud Boys account echoed the sentiments about it being a coordinated attack, as social media platforms crack down on pro-Trump voices.
“It’s a coordinated attack to stop us from reaching people with our message. White supremacists aren’t a problem for the left. They promote them at every turn and use them to scare their voters into voting for them. A group like ours that is unapologetically proud of their patriotism and one that includes men that are both gay and straight from all races and religions scares the shit out of the left and those trying to control us. First they called us Nazis and when that failed they tried to silence us. We aren’t going anywhere,” the owner of the Proud Boys account told Gateway Pundit. “We will continue to grow. We will continue to win and they know it. See you all on the next platform. YouTube, Apple, Twitter and Facebook are destroying themselves faster than we ever could.”
Twitter told Buzzfeed that it was due to their policy of banning “extremist groups” — yet dozens of Antifa accounts remain active.
You can continue to follow McInnes on his Instagram account and on CRTV.com.
as uninformed conventional FR users yawn and continue the plunge into obscurity. I don’t know where these banned guys will end up, but it’s not going to be FR.
Tyranny.
Demo-Corporate collusion.
They get around the 1st amendment and do worse than if the state did it directly.
You know who’s behind all of this.
Did they ban Clanton, the Berkeley bike-lock-assault professor?
No SIR!! This is jot right!!
Probably something to do with this weekend's Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville. Wouldn't be surprised if their accounts are reinstated on Monday.
Oligarch ‘Twitter Jack’ whatshisname.
Oligarch Mark Zuckerberg.
Oligarch George Soros.
Oligarch W.J. Clinton.
Oligarch H.R. Clinton.
Oligarch B.H. Obambi.
I generally call them prognazis or libnazis now, because that’s what they are- book burning modern day nazis.
Breitbart, prepare for incoming.
Let’s just shut down the whole internet. Where does this end?
Far too many FReepers are perfectly content preaching the the ever-shrinking choir of old men yelling at clouds. They don't understand the power of modern social media networks.
There's a reason influential conservative voices are getting kicked off Twitter. It's because the message they are using Twitter to spread is resonating with a growing number of people.
Conservatives need to fight for our spaces on these sites, not willingly banish ourselves from them.
So... keep on hounding Twitter.
It's going to end with government regulating these sites as public utilities and breaking them up.
I generally call them prognazis or libnazis now, because that’s what they are- book burning modern day nazis.
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Is there an unbiased, purely factual report on what these groups have said and done so we won’t have to take the word of the left about them? A good project for a conservative think tank.
“Let’s just shut down the whole internet. Where does this end?”
Well, let’s “start” with putting Mark F*ckerberg in the slammer! Let his kid grow up without a father.
This is disappointing but sadly not surprising. Gavin McInnes was one of my top reasons for being on twitter.
Adam Baldwin, Nick Searcy and James Woods too.
Sigh.
So what do you propose?
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