A group of protesters demonstrate Wednesday evening, Jan. 20,
2021, outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
building in Portland, Ore. (Assfault Pirates via AP)
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 9:03 AM PT – Wednesday, January 27, 2021
After months of cheering on the systematic censorship of
conservative voices on social media, some leftist accounts are now
feeling the sting of Big Tech’s bite.
In the past week, Facebook and Twitter have suspended the
accounts of several prominent leftist groups. This includes
socialist student organizations and the notorious radical left-wing
organization Antifa, which President Trump moved to designate as a
terrorist organization during his time in office.
Twitter reportedly removed at least four Antifa accounts from
its platform, each with a following of more than 70,000. The
suspensions are rumored to be the consequence of violent riots that
erupted in Portland, where Antifa radicals attacked the Democrat
Party’s state headquarters following Joe Biden’s
inauguration.
“I don’t do vandalism myself, but destruction of property is
a fundamentally American form of protest dating back to the Boston
Tea Party and I’m not here to tell somebody else how to
protest,” stated Alix Powell, a Portland protester. “If that is
what you think you have to do to get your point across and show
your government that that’s where you stand, then by all means
you do you.”
Journalist Andy Ngo, who has studied Antifa extensively and
broke the initial story on the accounts being censored, called the
move by Twitter “too little too late.”
“There’s been several accounts like the Revolutionary
Abolitionists, they have been banned, several others,” he stated.
“The base, which is this Antifa extremist center in Brooklyn, New
York, I guess better late than never. I wonder why they didn’t
act when we were at the height of violent riots across the U.S.
that lasted for months.”
Breaking: @Twitter has
suspended several prominent
#antifa accounts. @TheBaseBK
is one of them. The Base is an extremist bookstore in Brooklyn, NY
that has been used as an antifa training center. pic.twitter.com/CeCIhzpJBQ— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo)
January 21, 2021
In the past few days, Facebook has also reportedly suspended
several accounts belonging to socialist and communist groups in the
United States as well as abroad.
In the U.K. for example, the accounts of the Socialist Workers Party and its student
wing were temporarily suspended. Additionally, the Michigan-based
World Socialist Web
Site‘s Facebook page was also taken down. All accounts were
subsequently restored.
The editor of the World Socialist Web Site, David North, said,
“it’s like the police storming in and seizing everything in
your home.” He continued, stating he feels it could be a warning
for what could come next.
While left-wing groups are now expressing their opposition to
censorship, they were seemingly much more willing to embrace it
when it fell on President Trump with one chapter of Antifa bragging
about “laughing” at news of the Commander-in-Chief being
targeting by social media companies.
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