Posted on 11/03/2020 5:48:33 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2020 / 08:00 am MT (CNA).- A Czech cardinal has criticized online censorship after his Twitter account was restored days after it was suspended.
Cardinal Dominik Duka of Prague announced the reactivation of his account Oct. 31, but said that he had received no explanation for its suspension.
The cardinal, who was imprisoned by the communist authorities in 1981-82, compared present-day censorship to that of the 1980s, saying that things were “not much different” today.
“Now, however, on the basis of fictitious statements, it is not man who punishes, but artificial intelligence, led by the crowd to suppress ‘wrong’ ideas,” he wrote on Twitter.
It is not clear when Twitter suspended Duka’s account, but his account displays no posts between Oct. 14 and Oct. 31.
According to local media, when users searched for the account after its suspension, they received a message saying “Caution: This account is temporarily restricted.”
Czech media said that a possible reason for the suspension was a tweet that Duka posted Oct. 1 linking to an article about the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The article, in the Konzervativní noviny (Conservative newspaper), criticized the Czech media’s portrayal of Barrett as a member of a “Catholic sect.”
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Aw gee. The Cardinal’s opinion didn’t meet the criteria of some snot-nosed back-door fascist.
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