And you’re next. My latest in FrontPage:
Twitter has suspended UK’s courageous freedom fighter Katie Hopkins, who had a million followers on the platform, and one thing is certain: she will not be the last foe of jihad violence and Sharia oppression who is banned from Twitter. It’s all about silencing “hate,” you see. But the banning of Katie Hopkins illustrates yet again that for the Left, there is good “hate” and there is bad “hate.”
According to the UK’s Independent, “Twitter said that Ms Hopkins had been temporarily locked out of her account for violating the site’s hateful-conduct policy, which bans the promotion of violence or inciting harm on the basis of race, religion, national origin or gender identity.”
Twitter has erased all but a handful of Hopkins’ tweets, so it’s impossible to tell what the offending tweets were, but it is abundantly clear at this point that for Leftist guardians of acceptable thought nowadays, virtually any dissent from the Left’s agenda will be read as “the promotion of violence or inciting harm on the basis of race, religion, national origin or gender identity.” While “promotion of violence” is fairly easy to spot, “inciting harm” can be seen in any critical word. And then the offender has to go.
The crusaders against “hate” in this case were once again the usual suspects. According to the Independent, Twitter suspended Hopkins at the insistence of a Leftist/Islamic coalition of enemies of the freedom of speech: “The move came a little over a day after Rachel Riley, a co-presenter of Channel 4’s Countdown and an anti-racism campaigner, met Twitter representatives calling for them to review and remove Ms Hopkins’ account. The meeting was organised by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) campaign group, which called for Twitter to permanently delete the account.”
CCDH’s chief executive, Imran Ahmed, commented in the condescending tones of a man who knows the world is at his feet: “We are pleased that preliminary action appears to have been taken by Twitter against the identity-based hate actor, Katie Hopkins following productive discussions with Twitter’s UK office. There is a long road ahead before social media is made safe for dialogue, information exchange and the formation and maintenance of relationships.”
However, “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, and even though he is that most useless and contemptible of creatures, a dead white male, Twitter agrees with him. Rachel Riley was pleased at the forcible silencing of Hopkins, but noted that Twitter had not done her bidding to her complete satisfaction. The Independent continued: “Ms Riley said she was ‘pleased to see that action appears to have been taken’, but added that she had also called for the removal of George Galloway’s account, which remains online.”
It isn’t hard to see why this is so. Galloway, unlike Hopkins, is a fervent Leftist. According to Discover the Networks, Galloway is an “admirer of Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin.” He is also the founder of Viva Palestina, touted as “a fundraising project for the Palestinian people,” which “since its inception…has given millions of dollars, as well as much non-cash assistance, directly to Hamas.”
So it is clear. Twitter claims to be against “hateful conduct,” but it really only hates some hateful conduct, not all of it. Katie Hopkins opposing jihad violence and Sharia oppression? Why, that’s hateful conduct! She must be banned! George Galloway aiding a jihad terror group that targets Israeli civilians and celebrates when those civilians are murdered? Why, that isn’t hateful conduct, not at all, at least according to Twitter’s guardians of acceptable opinion. As far as Twitter is concerned also, hating Katie Hopkins, and showering her with abuse, is perfectly fine – I’ve witnessed it myself many times on that platform. But if someone uttered a cross word to George Galloway, it is certain that he or she would soon be free of the burden of limiting one’s utterances to 280 characters.
That is the lesson of the Twitter suspension of Katie Hopkins. If you also hold opinions that are unacceptable to the elites, you’re next. Twitter won’t tolerate “hate,” you see, which means it won’t allow anything but statements aligned with the views of the Leftist political and media elites. Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out, and at Twitter, it does look as if they’ve already slipped their chain.
gravenimage says
Twitter Suspends Katie Hopkins
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Appalling but unsurprising. Twitter has been crushing freedom of speech for some time now. Many people here have suffered suspensions for peaceful speech.
mortimer says
They are gloating with their unchallenged power. This looks like a job for superpresident.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, as awful as this is, I am leery of having the government decide what can and cannot be said on social platforms. In many cases this is apt to lead to *more* censorship.
mortimer says
They should apply the laws in place. Twitter is corrupt. It’s selling commercial products. It has a political bias in favor of globalism and censorship. That means Twitter is an ‘EDITOR’ and a ‘PUBLISHER’ of ideological-political opinion, rather than a ‘FORUM’ of ideas.
gravenimage says
Being an editor or a publisher is not illegal in the West. Not yet, any way.
Ferd III says
I was suspended for pointing out that Labour UK is a racist anti-semite party controlled by Moslems as their largest voting bloc after Teachers and that both Labour and Moslems promoted violence against Jews and even Christians (which is true).
Twitter told me this was hate speech.
I know that Twitter offshores – to Moslem countries – a lot of their ops and customer issues, so now we have Moslems screening complaints about Moslems.
Similar to UK Moslem Police investigating Moslem sex gangs raping White Girls….
newsupplements says
It is feeling like an occupied country here in the UK
gravenimage says
Sorry this happened to you, Ferd.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“CCDH’s chief executive, Imran Ahmed, commented in the condescending tones of a man who knows the world is at his feet: “We are pleased that preliminary action appears to have been taken by Twitter against the identity-based hate actor, Katie Hopkins following productive discussions with Twitter’s UK office. ….
You had me at “Imran Ahmed.”
gravenimage says
Yes. No surprise that so much of this crushing of freedom of speech is being done directly by Muslims themselves, and not just by dhimmis.
Sun says
+ 1
Jayell says
‘Hate-ACTOR’? Shouldn’t that more correctly be ‘hate-ACTRESS’? Can’t they even get that bit of basic English right? And coming from someone whose name suggests that they might be a follower of the ‘religion’ with unmitigated ‘hate’ on every other page of its ‘holy book’, it seems to be a case of ‘it takes one to know one’ – although (as we all know) this particular brand of ‘hate-actor’ doesn’t just simulate blowing people up, stabbing people in the street, abusing under-age girls, they’re the real, nasty, criminal McCoy.
Giacomo Latta says
Hollywood decided some time ago that it shall be gender neutral. Thus, there are no actresses. However, with the advent of things trans there shall soon be actors, m2factors, f2mactors, nactors, etc.
mortimer says
Yes, HF. The RED-GREEN AXIS strikes again.
nicu says
so twitter becomes another Facebook !
mortimer says
Globalist Elitist Fascism.
They worship their self-declared infallibility.
James Lincoln says
I have listened to many hours of Katie Hopkins.
I have NEVER heard her say anything that was not verifiably true.
For that she gets banned from twitter…
Will Pres. Trump be next?
gravenimage says
As is so often the case, truth does not appear to matter.
mortimer says
They consider themselves infallible, so they don’t have to be tolerant of political disagreement.
Wellington says
Wouldn’t be surprised, James, if Twitter bans Trump at “an opportune time,” perhaps a few weeks or so before November 3rd. After all, with Lefties nothing should be ruled out.
mortimer says
Wellington is right: Twitter’s censors have their fingers on the trigger for all conservatives. They have eliminated the low-lying fruit and are still afraid of the president. The president should put them out of business by recalling their legal right as a ‘forum’ and penalizing them as a ‘PUBLISHER’ which EDITS the content.
TWITTER HAS CEASED BEING “A FORUM” and they have lost the rights and privileges of being in that category.
NO FIRST AMENDMENT … NO ‘FORUM’ STATUS!
SaveYourSoul says
+1
Mo says
Already done for me since October. Aggravators! I’ve lost touch with people/sites/info I only knew via Twitter.
My crime? I dared say that men are not women / women are not men, and that anyone who claims this is either mentally ill or rebelling against reality, biology, and God.
HORRORS!
There’s no way to get a hold of a real human. Ugh, it makes me so angry.
Silkie says
Same with YouTube. I was given a warning because I had saved PRIVATELY one teaching session of Perry Stone, an evangelical preacher, but still leaving many others. I cannot imagine how the contents were offensive in any way. To my indignation, l could find no way of contacting any person to ask for a justifiable reason that I am not allowed to choose what I save for myself only. After much searching I found an email address, but of course, no reply. This one-sided censureship is sickening.
Peter Dale says
George Galloway is still on this platform and so is David Duke. What is the old saying that you are really known by the company you keep?
strats4ever says
Indeed, they also banned zerohedge.com and Project Veritas this week – can’t have truth on twatter.
Thomas Richard says
Katie…….Wear it ….as a badge of honour……..When the ‘Twits’ expose themselves…..they elevate you!
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
Robert Spencer,
“… that for the Left, there is good “hate” and there is bad “hate.”
Very well put!
Savvy Kafir says
Yes. That sums it up nicely. Muslim hatred for Jews & other infidels is simply not a concern for the PC Police, no matter how virulent. Nor the venom that ANTIFA thugs spew at anyone who hasn’t drunk the Kool-Aid of political correctness.
As an ACTUAL progressive, when I hear these fascists of the Regressive Left refer to themselves & their agendas as “progressive”, it makes me want to puke. When stripping Western societies of free speech, and colluding with Muslim savages who want to turn London into Lahore is considered “progress” — and everyone is required to believe the same, or else — we’ve definitely entered the world of Orwell’s “1984”.
Gork says
As they used to say in WW II –if you’re taking in lots of flak, it means you’re over the target. Bombs away!
Quazgaa says
No twitter, no facebook, no problems.
mortimer says
Twitter doesn’t suspend the ‘BARAA’ hatred of Muslim against the dirty kufaar nor the supremacist ideology of Islam.
Twitter looks the other way when Muslim supremacist hate kafirs, because the staff at Twitter are Globalist crypto-Fascists. Globalist Fascists are using Islam to destroy the culture and freedom of the Western world.
TWITTER HATES FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. TELL TWITTER THEY ARE FASCISTS.
mortimer says
TWITTER/BIG BROTHER TELLS YOU WHOM YOU MUST HATE: THE ARCHETYPE EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN THE ULTIMATE THOUGHT CRIMINAL !
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (publ.1949), by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily, public period during which members of the Outer Party of Oceania must watch a film depicting the enemies of the state, specifically Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers, to openly and loudly express hatred for them.[1] The political purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatreds towards politically expedient enemies: Goldstein and the enemy superstate of the moment. In re-directing the members’ subconscious feelings away from the Party’s government of Oceania, and towards non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thoughtcrime and the consequent, subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals.
HATE EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN!
Lydia Church says
This is very similar to a story about a chocolatier being boycotted in the UK for conservative views, you can see the story under Christian News Network under today’s date.
That is how it will go. First they come for one, then another. First they come for their twitter account, then their facebook account, then their bank account or ability to function financially. Eventually they will come for me and you. It is just a matter of time. But that is how the narrative goes. We will be called ‘haters’ by the haters for standing on the Word of God. There is a massive brainwashing effort in effect right now all over society to get everyone on board with all of their agendas to support sin, false religion, and similar evils. The same vocabulary weapons are being used against all of us, no matter the conservative sector. It is like a thinning process from which not many will graduate. Further consequences await those (like me) who resist their agendas. But then there will be less of us to deal with. Slowly and then later more quickly, we will be cut off from public society in all of its functions. We will be removed, never to look back upon it again. It happens in the end times, which we are in now. Believe it now or don’t, but you will see, if you are on the side of truth. Those who are deceived don’t have a clue of what is happening. Regardless of the cost, stay loyal to the Lord and His Word; the Holy Bible!
There’s really not much else to say at this point that hasn’t already been said.
Savvy Kafir says
Lydia — They’re ALL “false religions”. But Islam is the religion/political & legal system that destroys civilized societies wherever it is allowed to take root.
I’ll have to pass on your suggestion of staying loyal to “the Lord and His Word; the Holy Bible”. I gave that up a long time ago, and have become more & more convinced as time goes on that that was the right decision. Muslims & their PC allies hate me too; but it’s not for “standing on the Word of God”; it’s because I’m not a Muslim, and because I still believe I have a right to express opinions that defy the guidelines of political correctness.
Alice Hoagland says
[Sent to Twitter February 5, 2020]
Dear Twitter:
It is very disappointing to learn that you have censured Katie Hopkins, a brave lady who speaks against Islamism and Islamist terrorism. As the mother of Mark Bingham, murdered fighting Islamist hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11, I find Ms. Hopkins’ observations a refreshing change from the misguided leftist and Islamist pap which now seems to pervade Twitter. I would like to continue to enjoy Twitter, but since I now realize whereof you speak and act, I have unsubscribed. Since I cannot agree with your politicized views, I am certain you will not miss me. Please just keep your “14 recent notifications.” Alice Hoagland
Savvy Kafir says
Nicely done, Alice! I’m very sorry about your son. But I applaud your courage, as well as his.
gravenimage says
*Thank you*, Alice Hoagland, You and your son are great heroes of mine.
cetvies says
i am not for suspending her account, and you are right, you will be next as everybody’s activist has been suspended. but on her, if i did not misinterpret her words, assertions and attitude, hopkins is a racist, the way she says thinks is just nationalistic and she presents herself as superior. racism or islam as it promotes slavery, etc, it is more or less the same thing.
you talk about courage, i have a hypothesis about why it is not as dangerous for a racist to insult islam, because more or less, ultimately, in the long run, they protect the same values.
Ade Fegan says
The truth is haram
Thomas Richard says
Twitter is somewhere between a ‘twit’ and a ‘twat.’
John McKenna says
Yes the Marxist left has dominion over just about everything in the UK and for a channel four mouthpiece to claim the moral high ground is in itself a sick joke. However Katie often seems to play the self publicist craving attention and controversy for its own sake. That is I feel not helpful to anybody..
Graham says
It is rumoured that YouTube, Twitter and Facebook with soon be joining forces! The proposed new name is ‘You Twit Face’!
Hugo says
After pastor Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkin, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not Tommy or Katie.
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
gravenimage says
+1
No Muzzies Here says
Twitter is committed to supporting the Democrat party and everything it favors. The Democrat party actively promotes the Islamization of this country. Twitter slavishly carries out the wishes of the Democrat party.
As the presidential election approaches, Twitter will be suppressing more and more truth-tellers.
Henry Mansfield says
Retired journalist and best-selling author Colin Flaherty has been scrubbed from almost every last social media site due to his subject matter of black crime in the USA.
The last refuge appears to be a ‘free speech alternative’ called Minds.com. The quotation marks there because it’s how Minds.com advertises itself.
Flaherty will go a lot deeper than evening newscasters on trial proceedings, crime details and direct quotes. It often reaches a level of butt ugly found here. As a result, even PayPal and book publishers like Amazon.com have divested themselves of any association with him.
It’s long past the point where political correctness MIGHT interfere with the flow of information required in a democratic form of government.
tim gallagher says
I keep thinking that these leftie, politically correct clowns, who spend their time aiding barbaric islam, are going to regret what they have done if islam does actually grab power. They are such a bunch of brain dead people as Islam will wipe them away if it obtains real power. It is a very good point that Robert Spencer makes about how there is “good” hate ( what the left fascists stupidly decide is good in their upside down world) and “bad” hate, any sensibly conservative opinions and anyone who refuses to sugar-coat the nature of evil Islam. Anyone who is shut down by the left fascist crowd has to on the right track and telling the non-politically correct truth about things.
toomanyhobbies says
one more UK case of tell the truth about the CULT and you are punished….
Ajay says
I too lost my account a month ago. Though not huge, but still I had good number of followers and increasing rapidly.
Unfortunately the Leftists/Islamic Jeehadists didn’t like my tweets. I never used abusive language, never. Still my account was heavily mass reported by Jeehadi gangs and Twitter as always was happy to oblige them.
Twitter acts when people report an account or a tweet. And there are a huge number of accounts, Jeehadi Leftist accounts, who specialize in reporting.
Kavan Sherwood (@TattoedMan77) says
Discussing topics that the MSM/Politicos fail to talk about.
Why is there such silence on the topics of the Hadith,Koran and Mohammed’s life?
After every attack some Iman tells the Dhimmi journo, “The Koran says to kill one person is to kill mankind”. Indeed the Koran does say this but in relation to the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. The following verse tells muslims to torture those who insult allah.
Koran 5;32-33
Marty says
Twitter suspended me as well, but I’m in good company.