{"id":104171,"date":"2021-01-27T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=104171"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:43:30","slug":"antifa-leftists-get-censored-by-social-media-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-leftists-get-censored-by-social-media-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifa, leftists get censored by social media platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fantifa-leftists-get-censored-by-social-media-platforms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=104171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2360892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 735px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2360892 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21021439595873-1-725x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2360892\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2360892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 9:03 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, January 27, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>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\u2019s bite.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s state headquarters following Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t do vandalism myself, but destruction of property is a fundamentally American form of protest dating back to the Boston Tea Party and I\u2019m not here to tell somebody else how to protest,\u201d stated Alix Powell, a Portland protester. \u201cIf that is what you think you have to do to get your point across and show your government that that\u2019s where you stand, then by all means you do you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Andy Ngo, who has studied Antifa extensively and broke the initial story on the accounts being censored, called the move by Twitter \u201ctoo little too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been several accounts like the Revolutionary Abolitionists, they have been banned, several others,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe base, which is this Antifa extremist center in Brooklyn, New York, I guess better late than never. I wonder why they didn\u2019t act when we were at the height of violent riots across the U.S. that lasted for months.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a> has suspended several prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#antifa<\/a> accounts. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBaseBK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheBaseBK<\/a> is one of them. The Base is an extremist bookstore in Brooklyn, NY that has been used as an antifa training center. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CeCIhzpJBQ\">pic.twitter.com\/CeCIhzpJBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1352399672594345985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.K. for example, the accounts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/swp.org.uk\/\">Socialist Workers Party<\/a> and its student wing were temporarily suspended. Additionally, the Michigan-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en?redirect=true\">World Socialist Web Site<\/a>\u2018s Facebook page was also taken down. All accounts were subsequently restored.<\/p>\n<p>The editor of the World Socialist Web Site, David North, said, \u201cit\u2019s like the police storming in and seizing everything in your home.\u201d He continued, stating he feels it could be a warning for what could come next.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201claughing\u201d at news of the Commander-in-Chief being targeting by social media companies.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/big-tech-censorship-left-wing-violence-in-national-spotlight\/\"> Big Tech censorship, left-wing violence in national spotlight<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s bite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21021439595873-1-725x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Antifa, leftists get censored by social media platforms","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21021439595873-1-725x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Antifa, leftists get censored by social media platforms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}