{"id":1566470,"date":"2022-07-22T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566470"},"modified":"2022-07-22T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T16:49:27","slug":"twitter-begins-censoring-term-groomer-following-left-wing-pressure-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-begins-censoring-term-groomer-following-left-wing-pressure-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Begins Censoring Term &#8220;Groomer&#8221; Following Left-Wing Pressure Campaign"},"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\">18<\/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-begins-censoring-term-groomer-following-left-wing-pressure-campaign%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=1566470&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Twitter began censoring the word \u201cgroomer\u201d after left-wing media watchdog group Media Matters for America pressured the site to crack down on the term, which they claim is anti-LGBT.<\/p>\n<p>Commentator James Lindsay was locked out of his Twitter account Thursday for calling a Media Matters employee a groomer, according to screenshots Lindsay shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. He had to delete his tweet and wait an additional 12 hours to regain full access to his account.<\/p>\n<p>The term groomer describes adults who form inappropriate friendships with children in order to prime them for sexual abuse, and it has been used by some commentators to refer to those who expose young children to sexual content through <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/discovery-plus-generation-drag-new-series-lgbtq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drag shows<\/a> and lessons on gender identity and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/06\/washington-school-board-director-hosts-workshop-kids-sex-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay told the DCNF he uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/06\/corporate-media-groomers-republicans-florida-gay-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">term<\/a> to refer to both sexually predatory grooming and ideological grooming into what he called \u201cqueer Marxist ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call people who engage in either of these grooming behaviors \u2018groomers\u2019 because it\u2019s wrong to do and because that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing: grooming,\u201d he said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/biden-transgender-health-and-human-services-rachel-levine-empower-kids-sex-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Trans Biden Official Wants To \u2018Empower\u2019 Kids To Get Sex Changes)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOk, groomer,\u201d Lindsay said in the offending tweet. He was responding Ari Drennen, LGBTQ program director at Media Matters, who had criticized a DCNF <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/19\/media-matters-groomer-twitter-big-tech-censor-pedophile-smear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> about the campaign to get \u201cgroomer\u201d censored on Twitter. Twitter told Lindsay his tweet violated its rules against hateful conduct, according to a screenshot he shared with the DCNF.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ht\">Lmao L <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hIK0KKZU1C\">https:\/\/t.co\/hIK0KKZU1C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aKt0e8ZYI\">pic.twitter.com\/0aKt0e8ZYI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Lindsay, equipping my war moms (@ConceptualJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConceptualJames\/status\/1550249147982307331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Misusing \u201cgroomer\u201d to attack lgbtq people erases survivors of sexual abuse and is being used to incite violence against the LGBTQ community. Good to see Twitter finally starting to take this seriously. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0H24t7glDz\">https:\/\/t.co\/0H24t7glDz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ari Drennen \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@AriDrennen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriDrennen\/status\/1550287694688727040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAccusing people of harming children with no basis is extremely dangerous,\u201d Drennen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriDrennen\/status\/1550260809548255235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> Thursday. \u201cThree weeks again, Lindsay directed his little groomer bit at a library holding a drag queen story hour. Proud boys showed up three days later with signs about groomers and a rifle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter and Media Matters did not respond to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: We removed the word pedophile from the headline because it characterized the use of \u201cgroomer\u201d as a term that applies solely to people who sexually abuse children and not to to the growing wave of Critical Gender and Queer Theory groups working to indoctrinate children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter began censoring the word \u201cgroomer\u201d after left-wing media watchdog group Media Matters for America pressured the site to crack down on the term, which they claim is anti-LGBT.Commentator James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575061,"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-1566470","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\/1566470","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=1566470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}