Posted on 08/29/2021 4:16:28 PM PDT by thegagline
Twitter has permanently suspended former New York Times journalist and author Alex Berenson, a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and mandates, from its platform.
"The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules," a Twitter spokesperson told Fox News in response to an inquiry Saturday night.
On his Substack page, Berenson subsequently posted a brief message, just over 152 characters, titled, "Goodbye Twitter."
"This was the tweet that did it," he wrote, above a screenshot of his account before it was taken down. "Entirely accurate. I can’t wait to hear what a jury will make of this."
In that tweet, he wrote that the coronavirus vaccine does not stop infection or transmission.
"Don’t think of it as a vaccine," he continued. "Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS."
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention say that COVID-19 vaccines "are safe and effective" following tens of thousands of clinical trials and that side effects are rare.
Berenson, 48, made national headlines last year for his criticism coronavirus lockdowns and mandates, drawing the ire of Big Tech, the mainstream media and others who sought to bury his writing.
In a December op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Berenson warned that the COVID-19 pandemic had ushered in "a new age of censorship and suppression."
"Information has never been more plentiful or easier to distribute. Yet we are sliding into a new age of censorship and suppression, encouraged by technology giants and traditional media companies. As someone who’s been falsely characterized as a coronavirus ‘denier,’" he wrote at the time. "I have seen this crisis firsthand."
At that time, he had just finished battling with Amazon over a dispute over his own self-published books.
"Since June, Amazon has twice tried to suppress self-published booklets I have written about Covid-19 and the response to it," he continued. "These booklets don’t contain conspiracy theories. Like the scientists who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, I simply believe many measures to control the coronavirus have been damaging, counterproductive and unsupported by science."
Berenson worked at the New York Times from 1999 until 2010, before becoming a full-time novelist. He also published nonfiction, including a controversial 2019 book that argued against the legalization of marijuana.
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Railroad infrastructure is exponentially more difficult to reproduce than a forum website and a few servers.
Not only that, but to help make our lives easier, the government assisted in the rail infrastructure with eminent domain. Facebook and Twitter do the opposite, they assist the government in making our lives difficult.
Twitter and FB exist outside of American users. The US government and likely Red China provide them with plenty of billions, just like Google.
I have never heard of a single emergency call for the overdose of Ivermectin.
How much do you get paid to sell your government narrative?
He was the President of the United States it wasn’t his job to develop another social media platform.
But one thing he did try to do was get rid of Section 230, or whatever it’s called, that gives the tech companies immunity from everything.
Of course, he was blocked by both parties in Congress.
Did you follow General Flynn?
Well, they’re not public utilities. That’s why.
President Trump tried to change that. He was blocked.
Really? Like Parler and some of the others?
I’m not on any of them. But one of the things I see, or at least saw, were folks on here asking if anyone else was having issues with the various new sites.
If I’m not mistaken they shut Parler down Sheryl after the pics of Hunter and the young girl started circulating on it.
The guy was trying to run and fix this country, lower taxes, build up the mikitary, renegotiate trade deals, get through a bogus investigation, deal with an impeachment and fight off backstabbing POSs at every turn.
Oh yeah. In his spare time start up some social media site.
No, I don’t think so. And most of the “problematics” I followed are still there. The people I followed were always at war with the blue-haired weirdos, but I never engaged with any of them. That’s just not my thing.
Being banned from Twitter means you are telling the truth.
This has been argued ad nauseum on here.
Bars, restaurants, etc can’t do those things because the government won’t let them.
That very same government gives Twitter, etc cover to do what they want to whoever they want.
Dorsey is a loyal soldier of the Left. He can do what he wants.
Think of it like this…..the Podestas and Clinton’s are allowed to back date FARA paperwork and amend tax returns.
Manafort was not and went to prison for it.
Apparently folks have been able to get the ivermectin paste from places like tractor supply. Some government person said that folks are calling poison control because they took too much.
Anywho, even if that were true, those folks don’t know that there is a formula used to determine how much to use at one time.
And as you pointed out, blueplum, is clearly in that CDC/Fauci ride and ain’t coming off.
My sister was on it. Followed General Flynn. When was shown the door, so was she.
instead of lashing out, maybe you should look first. But that’s ok, I’ll do your homework for you because I”m nice. You’re welcome:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/94223
They function as public utilities/public square/etc. That will catch up to them.
Without regard to what Berenson was reporting, you’ve made a claim. Please provide a reference or sources for that claim. Otherwise, you’re just jackassin’.
He has spare time now.
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