The Four Color Media Monitor

The cartoonist who created Pigman had his Twitter account suspended, as he explains on Jihad Watch:

Twitter just suspended my account this morning, with no specific reason given to me besides their claim that I violated their rules for “hateful conduct”. I have been on twitter for a number of years, and I was able to earn the following of 13, 500 people. I really enjoy the platform and the interaction I get on it, outside of the death threats, which I’ve received over the years on Twitter, but which Twitter didn’t always deem objectionable, after I reported them. There are at least two individuals who’ve threatened me on Twitter who still have active Twitter accounts.

I often tweeted about my comic book work, about Free Speech, against overbearing governments, but mainly against the Islamic enemy who is motivated by Islam. For too many people today, stating that fact, that this monstrous enemy embodies “one of the world’s great religions”, “the religion of peace”, is considered “hate speech”, when it’s simply the truth, or true speech. Since Twitter didn’t give me a specific example of what they claimed to be my “hateful conduct”, I think it’s simply the fact that writing Honestly about Islam means that one will inevitably insult and condemn Islam, because to write honestly about Islam is to write about unspeakable things, and things that the social media masters do not want to hear.

Truth Revolt has more. I honestly don't care for Twitter in every sense, and Rush Limbaugh said a few months ago it's little more than a joke, but that's still no excuse for the staff's suspension of Fawstin's account because they disagree with him. They should restore his account immediately.

Update: and thankfully, as Pamela Geller's just announced, they have. Thank goodness this problem's been solved. Fawstin wrote more about the case here.

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