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Twitter silences the most effective state-level Conservative group in the country

Posted 21 Jul 2011 in censorship, hypocrisy, liberals, totalitarianism

Let’s review: liberal Congressman Anthony Weiner can send pornographic photos of himself and not lose his Twitter privileges. But conservative group EmpowerTexans gets their feed shut down (along with the personal accounts of all their staff) for no discernable reason?

I wonder if the folks at Twitter got their little bird logo embroidered on those new brown shirts of theirs.

via RedState: I have long considered Empower Texans to be the most important and effective state level conservative grassroots organization in the country. These people are not just respected in Texas; they are feared. It is an awesome thing to behold.

Michael Quinn Sullivan and company do excellent work educating Texans on the men who go to Austin claiming to be conservatives only to turn left out of the eyes of their constituents.

And they use Twitter as part of their communication strategy. In fact, twitter is a key component of their outreach. Or at least it was.

Today, Twitter not only shut down the Empower Texans twitter feed, but it also shut down the twitter feeds of every individual who works for Empower Texans.

Twitter is a private organization. It can do what it wants. But I am very troubled that it did so without explanation and without anyone for Empower Texans to contact.

If this was an orchestrated effort on the part of others to flag Empower Texans as a spam account such that Twitter’s computer system would automatically can it, Twitter has a serious security problem.

It was a man made decision, Twitter has even bigger problems.

Either way, it needs to fix this.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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