Conservative comedian Steven Crowder was suspended by Twitter on Wednesday for allegedly violating the site’s “hateful conduct” terms.
According to screenshots posted on Crowder’s blog, Twitter initially suspended his account for 12 hours for posting a video where an intern crashes an LGBT meet-up at SxSW and pretends to identify as a computer.
Crowder said he assumed his account was suspended because the video did not bleep out the word “faggot,” but when the video was re-uploaded with the word bleeped, his account was suspended for an additional seven days.
“Reminder, the video has soft bleeps, information blurred,” the blog post about the suspension states. “Twitter still suspended three accounts of our studio team, for daring to share the content. At all.”
Conservatives on Twitter are rallying behind Crowder with the hashtag “#FreeCrowder,” insisting that the suspension is further proof of Twitter’s bias against conservatives on its platform. (RELATED:Twitter Blocks The Alt-Right, Allows Racist Death Threats To Ajit Pai)
Twitter and YouTube have suspended @scrowder‘s accounts after he was slandered as a bigot (hate bigots; love Crowder; it’s just a lie). These are assaults on free speech from people who should be committed to the spread of info. #freecrowder!
— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) March 14, 2018
#FreeCrowder Hey, @jack, this is insane. If you’re going to suspend everyone who says anything that offends anyone on this platform, you may as well just shut your doors.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 14, 2018
So @LouisFarrakhan is fine with Twitter, but @scrowder gets suspended for comedy routines. @jack, you’re making an ass of yourself. #FreeCrowder
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 14, 2018
#FreeCrowder => Twitter Has Suspended Steven Crowder @scrowder. Here’s the Story, Now Spread the Word! https://t.co/7Gv35VZnwQ pic.twitter.com/poERIURZRr
— Courtney Kirchoff (@Courtneyscoffs) March 14, 2018
Why is our conservative free speech being shut down?
This is what the Third Reich did you fools.
They will come for you Liberals next;
why are you ok with this? #FreeCrowder #NationalWalkoutDay pic.twitter.com/EmxeQhuThX— Carrie America (@carrieksada) March 14, 2018