Posted on 12/13/2022 5:45:53 AM PST by Twotone
Christian conservative rapper Bryson Gray has been permanently banned from Twitter, after previously remarking that Elon Musk's takeover of the platform was generally a good move for free speech.
Gray is no stranger to either bans or controversy, having had songs removed from Apple Music as well as Spotify and YouTube within the last two years, specifically for "medical misinformation" in at least one instance.
The reason for the Twitter suspension is not immediately clear, even to Gray; Twitter did not did not reply to a request for comments on the situation.
"I think I got banned because I called Elton John gay, which would be weird for obvious reasons," Gray told Blaze Media.
"Elon Musk censors speech more than the old Twitter. That's an objective truth that people look over because he allowed a few people back on Twitter," the rapper continued.
Gray is referring to the new Twitter policy under Musk, which still allows for "shadow-banning" on certain posts deemed to be hateful, "deboosting" and "demonetizing" them, according to the owner.
"New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet," Musk said in November 2022.
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“Elon Musk censors speech more than the old Twitter.”
Albequerque!
“Elon Musk censors speech more than the old Twitter.”
That would probably carry a lot more weight if he’d had said it prior to being banned.
the account is currently not suspended.
if he is pulling my leg
he can pull my finger for a response
He has also banned Garland Nixon , Jackson Hinkle and Scott Ritter , amongst other Americans .
I think there are still some rogue algorithms running loose. Musk will find them eventually.
Freedom of speech... You have the right to say what you want, but don’t have the right to be heard.
No he doesn’t. Scrape $44 billion together, buy Twitter, and run it how you see fit.
Snorkel.
No free speech on fr, the blaze, or twitter. That is the nature of private property and business.
The Elon fanbois will be along soon enough.
You don’t support ‘Freedom Of Speech’ unless you support freedom of speech you hate, find abhorrent, and are repulsed by.
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one”
-HL Menken.
Elton is gay? You mean that whole “Daniel/Someone Shaved my Wife Tonight/Brown Dirt Cowboy” thing was real?
Knock me over with a feather.
Remember when for one of his birthday parties he had male strippers dressed as Boy Scouts? That was a clue.
“Elon Musk censors speech more than the old Twitter.”
Apparently the volumes of Pedo-accounts is mind bending. So if he’s banning those, this might well hold true.
The doof is a rapper. That is enough reason to shun him entirely, much less simply drop him from Twitter.
Oh noes
The horror
I think he got banned for testing the system with numerous racist and anti-Semitic posts going on for days. It was right around the time Kanye was doing his “criticize the Jews”
and “tell us about how Hitler was good” schtick.
It doesn’t make it right and I’m not sure why he was banned. I just unfollowed him and that was that.
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