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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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To: Principled

“I’m still #202,589 on Truth Social.”

Damn. I’m #266,456.


41 posted on 03/01/2022 9:48:39 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nothing hateful about the truth.
It is what it is.
42 posted on 03/01/2022 9:50:30 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Election Theft Has Consequences)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think Hartzler is getting my vote in the GOP primary for Senate here in Missouri. She challenged the election on Jan 6, also.


43 posted on 03/01/2022 9:52:12 AM PST by Timmy
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To: dfwgator
I’d say we’re getting to the point where there are no more freedoms to take away.

Exactly!
44 posted on 03/01/2022 9:53:45 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I live in the KC metro area and love her commercial. I’d vote for her in a heartbeat, but I live in Kansas.


45 posted on 03/01/2022 9:54:18 AM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: Enlightened1

That’s been the problem for a while and the debate about being a public forum or a publisher. They can’t decide to be both when it suits them....but they do every day.


46 posted on 03/01/2022 9:55:51 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: cgbg
Twitter needs to be seized and broken up into a million pieces.

They have become active political players— <<<<

EXACTLY!!!....blatantly so!!......same for the MSM..(see my tagline)

47 posted on 03/01/2022 9:57:13 AM PST by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What they call “hateful” they will one day criminalize. Make no mistake about it.


48 posted on 03/01/2022 9:59:45 AM PST by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

I don’t think it’s working.

I’ve gotten notifications that I’m getting followers but I’m not on yet so they must be bogus followers to keep me on the hook.

Who knows what’s up with Truth....


49 posted on 03/01/2022 10:00:38 AM PST by Principled (Biden is illegitimate and whatever he says can be ignored. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am sure this is fine with many of the posters on FR. Seems they love the corporate state and the Democrats, based on their reactions to the situation in Ukraine.


50 posted on 03/01/2022 10:00:41 AM PST by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals)
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To: mylife

How? Because it violates the left’s narrative and agenda.

Anything that is contrary to the USA’s new new government and corporate narrative (aka: new fascist idealogy) is defined as phobic.

HG Wells was a prophet


51 posted on 03/01/2022 10:22:21 AM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: Leaning Right
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 verbal abuse is anytime you raise you voice or you're not talking to them like they're in kindergarten.
52 posted on 03/01/2022 10:23:42 AM PST by lewislynn ( Are the Murdochs citizens,natural born or otherwise? Ruperet Murdoch is Australian.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

George Orwell couldn’t have written it any better.


53 posted on 03/01/2022 10:24:33 AM PST by SuperSonic (If I had a dog it would look like the one Obama ate!)
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To: hanamizu

XX or XY

You do not get to choose. Sorry.


54 posted on 03/01/2022 10:24:50 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: tomkat

“...NEVER apologize to the enemy...”

Excellent point. That’s my new tagline. Thanks.


55 posted on 03/01/2022 10:25:19 AM PST by Qui is (First, never apologize to the enemy, and second, never forget that Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Competition is good. Apparently twitter and trans are benefiting from an unlevel playing field, which won’t be that way forever.


56 posted on 03/01/2022 10:26:36 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: mylife
how is this phobic in anyway?

transphobic = the fear of where things are going (with leftists in charge).

57 posted on 03/01/2022 10:31:51 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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.

58 posted on 03/01/2022 10:36:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: mylife

Just following the science get you banned. How very 1984 of them.


59 posted on 03/01/2022 10:39:33 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But Farrakhan still has a Twitter account

https://mobile.twitter.com/LouisFarrakhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


60 posted on 03/01/2022 10:41:29 AM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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