Thread by @tomselliott

Hey friends, just back from another suspension. As I've been documenting for some time now, @Twitter is targeting me because I'm an effective conservative journalist who frequently undermines political causes their far-left staff is endeavoring to advance. 1/

Despite having never broken any rules, @Twitter has now suspended me four separate times. Allow me to quickly recap: /2

1) In 2021, I attacked @AndrewCuomo for withholding vaccines for NYC seniors as part of his catfight w/ De Blasio. Twitter suspended me for "abuse and harassment," as apparently it's against the rules to critique their favorite predators, err politicians!

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1346782124368605184

2) Later that year, Twitter suspended me for a week after I made an innocuous joke at Andy Slavitt's expense. Again, I was reprimanded for "abuse and harassment," even though in this case Slavitt said he didn't see anything wrong w/ my tweet

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1453098985661534216?s=20&t=BzUv-J7bR9VZb3KdO_st5w

3) Soon thereafter, I was put back in the penalty box, this time for circulating CDC information and advancing the (usually progressive) argument "my body, my choice." (By doing so, Twitter claimed I violated their "Covid misinformation" policy). /5 thefederalist.com/2021/12/03/my-…

4) Earlier today, Twitter suspended me for a tweet from last March. In this case, I was criticizing a blatantly racist tweet from @TheRoot. I appealed, noting I'm actually calling out hateful content through this thing Twitter's humorless scolds don't understand called sarcasm /6

Twitter has just informed me that my appeal was rejected. Unsurprisingly The Root's actually racist & abusive tweet remains up. /7

As you can see, in all four cases, I was doing the opposite of what Twitter claimed.

Again, it's impossible to interpret the above as anything other than targeted censorship of a journalist (and I'm hardly the only conservative communicator they're trying to take out). /8

All of their protestations about "misinformation" notwithstanding, Twitter's main commodity these days is dishonesty in service of nudging progressives onward to victory in the culture wars. /9

In fact, to this day I've yet to see a progressive account complain about being wrongly suspended. /10

Nor have I seen progressive accounts be suspended even after blatantly lying & stirring up racial conflict: /11

https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1460335492415819786

Anyway, to guarantee you're able to hear from me in the future, be sure to follow me on Telegram: t.me/tomselliott /12

And thanks again to @Twitter for helping keep the bluechecks safe from uncomfortable jokes. #NotAllHeroesWearCapesSomeJustHideBehindTheirKeyboardsAndCensorPeople /fin