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Twitter Suspends Entire Leadership Team Of Latinos For Trump
Laura Loomer ^ | Sept. 19, 2019 | Laura Loomer

Posted on 09/20/2019 5:21:25 AM PDT by T Ruth

Wednesday, the entire leadership team for Latinos for Trump was suspended from Twitter, according to a press release.

“On September 18th, Twitter management suspended the accounts for the entire leadership team of Latinos for Trump organization, who operates under Americanos. As a company that claim’s [sic] its purpose is ‘to serve the public conversation,’ the unjustified suspensions of these accounts is not only contrary to their stated purpose, but also silences the voice of a significant minority group,” the release said.

Twitter censorships is a topic with which we are familiar at LauraLoomer.us. The company suspended our own Laura Loomer, who had more than 260,000 followers, last November. The suspension came after Loomer called Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “anti-Jewish,” which is demonstrably true. Her ban was facilitated by the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Zahra Billoo. She is suing both Twitter and CAIR over the ban. (RELATED: Women’s March Trades Jew-Hating Board Member For A Worse Jew-Hating Board Member)

As usual, Twitter provided no reasoning for suspending Latinos for Trump.

“Twitter suspended our user accounts without providing a warning and without providing a reason for the suspension,” the press release said. “We are still conducting an internal review of the situation but have found nothing to justify a suspension. What we have found is the suspect timing and comprehensive nature of the suspensions. These suspension [sic] came in less than 48 hours since President Trump held his rally in New Mexico. During this rally, numerous Hispanic supporters where seen on TV wearing ‘Latinos for Trump’ T-shirts. In less than 48 hours later, all our leadership accounts were suspended by Twitter.”

Interestingly, we reported earlier today that Twitter briefly suspended the account of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) just days before a large conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The time of that suspension seemed suspicious, too.

Bianca Garcia, the president of Latinos for Trump and the person who signed the press release, called Twitter’s actions “discriminatory,” and claimed that they were behaving secretively.

“Although Twitter claims to enforce their rules ‘impartially and consistently’ and will let someone know “about actions taken against your account and why,” they have not. Although Twitter claims to ‘be transparent about actions we take,’ they have not,” the release said. “We are deeply troubled by the overly secretive and discriminatory actions by Twitter management against our Latino based group. We also invite greater public scrutiny into the troubling actions of Twitter.”

According to the release, the following accounts were suspended: @FabMagaDiva @reallatinos4US @WeAreAmericanos @HispanicTrumpTX @CassieJ_Tx @secureUSA45 @mgtz1995 @Spi3 @Spi3inc @orejitagirl @HenryGrullon4.

Once again, Twitter finds itself facing questions about alleged censorship of conservatives. Though the company claims that it has no political bias, instances of suspensions among conservatives abound. Many of the influencers who rallied their followers in support of President Donald J. Trump in 2016, including Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, and Gavin McInnes, are all permanently banned from the platform.

While Congress and Trump have spoken about taking action to ensure that Big Tech cannot arbitrarily censor conservatives, progress has been slow. In the run up to 2020, it is going to be critical for Trump to have his most ardent supporters, including Latinos for Trump and the aforementioned banned individuals, to be active on social media.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: belongsinbloggers; bloggers; censorship; latinos; latinosfortrump; latinovote; liberalfascism; loomer; trump2020; twitter; twittercensorship
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To: T Ruth

There is a simple legal solution - void the law that makes exceptions of FacePlant, Tweetie, et al. The exception is that they are considered to be ‘platforms’ not ‘publishers’. Remove the legal exception and they all become publishers. Publishers are subject to all libel laws.

Let the lawsuits begin.


41 posted on 09/20/2019 7:34:12 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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To: T Ruth

Twitter is slowly shutting itself down ,LOL


42 posted on 09/20/2019 7:42:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: T Ruth

You need to send zuckerberg and dorsey to Guantanamo as enemy combatants and confiscate all their illegally obtained wealth. That should take care of the fairness issue


43 posted on 09/20/2019 7:43:06 AM PDT by cdpap
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To: adorno
All the while people cry out "someone spould create an alternative to there have been several that have come and gone. They have gone because no one is interested in investing in them. Its the NIMBYism of the interent. Always someone else must do it and it must be an instant success before it rolls out. Twitter took years to get to where it was. So did FB. Proper marketing takes time and money and neither of those are in abundance right now for the so-called alternative social media apps. The only solution would be to remove social media at this juncture.
44 posted on 09/20/2019 8:14:03 AM PDT by zaxtres
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To: T Ruth

Racist bass turds have taken over Twitter.


45 posted on 09/20/2019 8:29:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Doesn’t the FEC lack a quorum? Isn’t that the committee that has only 3 of 6 members appointed, so it can’t actually do anything?


46 posted on 09/20/2019 8:30:32 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Openurmind
And here lies a problem, when was the last time government could be trusted, let alone trusted to do something right. It has never happened and probably never will.

The internet started as a government project, although it has evolved to become something not envisioned those decades ago.

The internet is still regulated by the government, though not to the extent that OTA TV and radio are.

Like I said, government could subsidize and start projects, with the intent of them getting out of the way after the project is way under way.
47 posted on 09/20/2019 10:30:44 AM PDT by adorno
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Gee, sounds sorta racist to me!!!

I wonder if Twitter would have the guts to ban the “Blacks For Trump” or the “LGBTQXYZ for Trump”.


48 posted on 09/20/2019 3:03:48 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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