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underpants

(197,746 posts) Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:24 AM 2 hrs ago

"Free Speech" huh? I got completely booted off Twitter

I wasn’t doing or posting anything that I wouldn’t do on DU. I was trolling MAGA influencers but only with published and reported facts … and some memes (like on DU) …. but that’s it.

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"Free Speech" huh? I got completely booted off Twitter (Original Post) underpants 2 hrs ago OP

You lost your First Amendment rights? On Twitter? How could that be? bucolic_frolic 2 hrs ago #1

How is the First Amendment even applicable? MichMan 57 min ago #9

Musk only allows biased speech?!?!? Who could have seen that coming? Scrivener7 2 hrs ago #2

Weird. Scary. yardwork 2 hrs ago #3

Would it remind you of the same if someone here posted pro Trump messages and got banned? EdmondDantes_ 1 hr ago #7

Not the same at all. yardwork 56 min ago #10

Because that's not a real difference EdmondDantes_ 40 min ago #12

Have you ever read anything on Twitter (X)? yardwork 38 min ago #13

I haven't posted to Xitter since Musk took it over. ananda 2 hrs ago #4

;-{) ...... Goonch 2 hrs ago #5

You posted FACTS? That was really going out on a limb DFW 2 hrs ago #6

now is your chance to stop supporting musk. ret5hd 1 hr ago #8

The free speech only applies to RWNJ's MustLoveBeagles 50 min ago #11

bucolic_frolic

(56,283 posts)

1. You lost your First Amendment rights? On Twitter? How could that be?

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:26 AM

2 hrs ago

MichMan

(17,597 posts)

9. How is the First Amendment even applicable?

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 10:49 AM

57 min ago

People get banned or posts get removed here on DU daily.

Scrivener7

(60,312 posts)

2. Musk only allows biased speech?!?!? Who could have seen that coming?

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:33 AM

2 hrs ago

But doesn't it feel good to stop being a product he can use for his own purposes?

yardwork

(69,904 posts)

3. Weird. Scary.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:34 AM

2 hrs ago

Reminds me of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

EdmondDantes_

(2,259 posts)

7. Would it remind you of the same if someone here posted pro Trump messages and got banned?

Reply to yardwork (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:51 AM

1 hr ago

Getting suspended on Twitter is hardly the government throwing someone in jail.

yardwork

(69,904 posts)

10. Not the same at all.

Reply to EdmondDantes_ (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 10:51 AM

56 min ago

DU is a small platform openly dedicated to a single issue: electing Democrats. Twitter is the largest communication platform in the world, and its owner, the wealthiest man in the world, helped get Trump elected and led the effort to destroy federal agencies.

Twitter banning people for the kinds of things they post on DU is chilling.

It's weird to me that you don't see the difference.

EdmondDantes_

(2,259 posts)

12. Because that's not a real difference

Reply to yardwork (Reply #10)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:07 AM

40 min ago

How many members does a site need before they aren't allowed to ban people? Reddit, Facebook, Bluesky all ban people.

And you're taking the poster's word they didn't say anything they couldn't say here. Without seeing the post(s) in question, that's a leap of faith.