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Twitter suspends US Senate candidate for hateful conduct
The Associated Press ^ | March 1, 2022

Posted on 03/01/2022 9:26:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri says she has no plans to delete a transphobic tweet that violated Twitter’s rules against hateful conduct, even after the social media platform said she won’t be able to tweet, retweet, follow or like posts until she does.

Twitter suspended [Republican] Vicky Hartzler ’s personal account on Monday.

Hartzler’s tweet, posted in mid-February, said: “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” and included her TV ad targeting transgender people in sports and particularly University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.

A statement from Hartzler’s campaign called the suspension “shameful, utterly ridiculous, and a horrible abuse of censorship by big tech giants to stifle free speech.” The campaign said Hartzler will not delete the tweet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2022election; bidenvoters; de; deplatformtwitter; election2022; genderdysphoria; homofascism; homosexualagenda; indiana; liathomas; missouri; perverts; petebuttigieg; transathlete; transswimmer; twitter; vickyhartzler; willthomas; xyxx
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1 posted on 03/01/2022 9:26:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pure sexism


2 posted on 03/01/2022 9:28:05 AM PST by struggle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A woman’s issue. She’s standing up for other women who won’t.


3 posted on 03/01/2022 9:28:22 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (S)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

how is this phobic in anyway?


4 posted on 03/01/2022 9:28:43 AM PST by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bravo for your stand, and NEVER apologize to the enemy, Ms. Hartzler!


5 posted on 03/01/2022 9:29:02 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s all about the party affiliation, nothing else


6 posted on 03/01/2022 9:29:55 AM PST by The Louiswu (The times they are a changin. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m still #202,589 on Truth Social.

Alas.


7 posted on 03/01/2022 9:31:00 AM PST by Principled (Biden is illegitimate and whatever he says can be ignored. )
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To: tomkat

Follow the science,,, that should be the message to all those that support this perversion.


8 posted on 03/01/2022 9:31:06 AM PST by bboise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Truth is now “hateful conduct”.


9 posted on 03/01/2022 9:31:29 AM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Could this potentially make the WNBA worth watching? /s


10 posted on 03/01/2022 9:31:55 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And I’m supposed to worry about Putin taking our freedoms away.

I’d say we’re getting to the point where there are no more freedoms to take away.


11 posted on 03/01/2022 9:32:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If these weirdos want to compete in sports then should have their own league. Like The National Association of Sickos.


12 posted on 03/01/2022 9:32:45 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Twitter needs to be seized and broken up into a million pieces.

They have become active political players—need to suffer active political consequences.


13 posted on 03/01/2022 9:32:51 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The term “hate speech” should be reserved for speech that explicitly advocates for violence. But as we all know, the term is now used for any speech that deviates from PC thought, even slightly.

And to make things even worse, what is an innocent comment today can easily become hate speech tomorrow. So it’s kinda like living in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. You won’t be shot for going against party policy. But you will suffer for it.


14 posted on 03/01/2022 9:33:12 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s election meddling.

Twitter has federal protection that it’s a public platform, and not a private editor that can censor.

So it’s free speech zone. The fact they are trying to censor political opinions they do not like by calling it hate is a violation of their agreement.


15 posted on 03/01/2022 9:33:20 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s not a transphobic statement


16 posted on 03/01/2022 9:33:49 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like an In-Kind contribution to her opponent(s) by a corporate entity, certainly ILLEGAL if they don’t silence her opponent(s) too.


17 posted on 03/01/2022 9:33:52 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“In a time of Universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” - George Orwell


18 posted on 03/01/2022 9:35:04 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Vicky Hartzler is absolutely right. I hope she doesn’t cave in and apologize. It sounds like she’s sticking to her guns so far.

Twitter sucks.


19 posted on 03/01/2022 9:35:29 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That abusive action by Twitter should give the good lady from Missouri a victory in November.


20 posted on 03/01/2022 9:35:39 AM PST by elpadre (And here in NCini)
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