{"id":1500228,"date":"2022-06-01T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500228"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:45:11","slug":"twitter-kicks-little-girl-mini-aoc-off-platform-stepfather-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-kicks-little-girl-mini-aoc-off-platform-stepfather-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Kicks Little Girl \u2014 Mini-AOC \u2014 Off Platform, Stepfather Says"},"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\">22<\/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-kicks-little-girl-mini-aoc-off-platform-stepfather-says%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=1500228&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>She\u2019s known as Mini-AOC.<\/p>\n<p>In real life, she\u2019s Ava Martinez of Lake Forest, California. Her videos making fun (in a light way) of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York used to explode on social media. On Twitter, her handle is @realminiAOC (and she really does look like the Democratic socialist beloved by liberals).<\/p>\n<p>But 10 days ago, her account got locked. And in the last few days, her 250,000+ followers \u2014 which include such notables as filmmaker Dinesh D\u2019Souza and political commentators Ryan Fournier and Sebastian Gorka \u2014 have started to wonder what happened to her.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Callesto, a former Republican candidate in Florida\u2019s 3rd Congressional District, was among those who figured it out. \u201cBREAKING REPORT: Mini AOC @realminiaoc fan account LOCKED OUT of twitter for age restriction and facing deactivation DESPITE claim it is owned and RUN BY HER PARENTS, dispute system for account currently down,\u201d he wrote on May 24.<\/p>\n<p>So we checked in with Ava\u2019s stepfather, Salvatore Schachter, to find out the real story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn May of 2019, Ava\u2019s mom and I started the @realminiaoc account on Twitter after a video she did impersonating AOC went viral,\u201c he said in an email. \u201cPeople enjoyed her larger-than-life personality, great sense of humor and many talents like dancing and acting and we enjoyed sharing in it as a family. Since then we\u2019ve grown the account to just over 250K followers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of impressions over the years have been extremely sweet and kind with some negativity here and there but overall we\u2019ve had fun sharing Ava\u2019s charm through social media all along the lines of a parody account,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Ava was featured in a 2019 video shortly after Ms. Ocasio-Cortez put out her Green New Deal plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, hello America, AOC here again,\u201d Ava said in the clip. \u201cBut this time from Washington, D.C., which is named after our first president \u2014 George Washington D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, I want to tell you about my plan to single-handedly save the planet. I call it the Green New Deal. I picked green because I\u2019m still learning my colors. I came up with my plan after we were watching, like, the most important documentary on climate change. It\u2019s called \u2018Ice Age 2: The Meltdown,\u2019\u201d she said, referring to the animated kids\u2019 movie. \u201cThat\u2019s not me saying it, that\u2019s science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But things started to change recently, despite Elon Musk\u2019s move to purchase the platform \u2014 which came with his pledge to open it up to conservatives and liberals alike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019ve been a few emails from Twitter warning that we\u2019ve been reported for a tweet but it was always advised that the tweets were found to be not in violation of Twitter\u2019s rules because we\u2019re not in any way offensive,\u201d her stepfather said. \u201cWe\u2019re just trying to make people laugh and see Ava for the talented kid she is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schachter said that on May 23, he received an email from Twitter advising that the account was locked due to Ava \u2014 now 11 \u2014 being under the minimum age requirement of 13 years old. But that\u2019s odd, he said, because \u201cthe account is in my name, I\u2019m well over 13 years old of course and it says right in our bio that parents are running this account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ava\u2019s stepdad has his own theory about why the account has been shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel we were locked out now because our account has been growing rapidly since Elon Musk announced his bid for Twitter and our views resonate with our followers while running contrary to Twitter\u2019s views. Just further proof of Twitter silencing conservative accounts even if it\u2019s just your average American parents and their talented daughter trying to give a few laughs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it was just a family fun account, Schachter said, \u201cAva is extremely disappointed we\u2019re in danger of losing our account and our outlet to so many wonderful people.\u201d And he noted that the account has done good, raising more than $10,000 for St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very sad to know we won\u2019t be able to do that again without the support of all of our followers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since being locked out, Ava\u2019s stepfather says they have tried to resolve the issue, but \u201cthe page to dispute being locked out has been down for going on eight days now, leaving us no recourse at all to unlock our erroneously suspended account. Adding insult to injury, you can get to the dispute page for locked out accounts but only from an account that is not locked out and you can\u2019t do anything on the page unless your account is locked. It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has vowed to level the playing field on Twitter, which has always leaned hard left. Let\u2019s see if he puts his money \u2013 all $44 billion he\u2019s set to spend to buy the platform \u2014 where his mouth is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl covered the<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s known as Mini-AOC. In real life, she\u2019s Ava Martinez of Lake Forest, California. Her videos making fun (in a light way) of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York used to explode on social media. On Twitter, her handle is @realminiAOC (and she really does look like the Democratic socialist beloved by liberals). 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