{"id":1129411,"date":"2021-12-17T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129411"},"modified":"2021-12-17T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:14:15","slug":"twitter-crackdown-american-principles-project-executive-censored-for-criticizing-the-mutilation-of-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-crackdown-american-principles-project-executive-censored-for-criticizing-the-mutilation-of-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Crackdown: American Principles Project Executive Censored for Criticizing the Mutilation of Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftwitter-crackdown-american-principles-project-executive-censored-for-criticizing-the-mutilation-of-kids%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=1129411&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 class=\"subheading\">Earlier this week, Twitter censored Jon Schweppe, policy director for the pro-family American Principles Project, who criticized the \u201cevil gender ideology\u201d pushing the \u201cchemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors suffering from gender dysphoria.\u201d The Masters of the Universe locked Scheppe\u2019s account on the grounds that his post is \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest in a growing tide of Twitter censorship since the company changed CEOs, replacing co-founder Jack Dorsey with little-known former CTO Parag Agrawal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18935042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Parag-Agrawal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18935042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Parag-Agrawal.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (Google Cloud\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, in response to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) pushing for a new bill to prevent male-to-female transgenders from competing in women\u2019s sports, Schweppe called for red states to pass laws outlawing the surgical mutilation of minors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15222082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kristi-Noem-penny-starr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15222082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kristi-Noem-penny-starr.png\" alt=\"South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was given the Moms of America&#039;s Mothers of Influence award on Sunday in Washington, D.C. (Penny Starr\/Breitbart News)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was given the Moms of America\u2019s Mothers of Influence award on Sunday in Washington, D.C. (Penny Starr\/Breitbart News)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNow we hope that governors will likewise be emboldened to continue the fight against the evil gender ideology being forced on America\u2019s children by joining Arkansas and Tennessee in banning the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors suffering from gender dysphoria,\u201d tweeted Schweppe.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Twitter locked Schweppe\u2019s account on the grounds of \u201chate speech,\u201d forcing him to delete the tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SchweppeAPPTwitter1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19167434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SchweppeAPPTwitter1.png\" alt width=\"470\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m&nbsp;Not sure what was hateful about my statement,\u201d Schweppe told Breitbart News. \u201cI was calling for an end to the violence being perpetrated on these children. Another example of the upside-down world of the woke Left where War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and protecting children from sexual abuse is violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident is the latest in what appears to be an uptick in censorship from an already-censorious platform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Another conservative who was recently censored was conservative blogger Matt Couch, who posted on Twitter from the handle @RealMattCouch, who had over 500,000 followers on the platform prior to his account\u2019s termination for unknown reasons last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MattCouch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19167418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MattCouch1.jpg\" alt width=\"516\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Houston doctor, Mary Talley Bowden, who is using the platform to share a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/enforce-right-to-try-act-in-hospitals-06e3d544-905c-4594-939f-3b819683081c\">petition<\/a> calling for the enforcement of right-to-try in hospitals, also had sharing, liking, and commenting disabled on one of her tweets earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Other censorship cases in the past few weeks include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/12\/08\/twitter-blacklists-account-providing-updates-on-ghislaine-maxwell-trial\/\">an account posting updates from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, an account tracking Nancy Pelosi\u2019s stock market investments<\/a>, and a range of widely-followed anonymous conservative accounts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Twitter censored Jon Schweppe, policy director for the pro-family American Principles Project, who criticized the \u201cevil gender ideology\u201d pushing the \u201cchemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129411","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\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}