{"id":1938084,"date":"2023-05-25T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-slams-election-interference-as-linkedin-censors-gop-candidate-over-comments-on-china-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:00:14","slug":"ramaswamy-slams-election-interference-as-linkedin-censors-gop-candidate-over-comments-on-china-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-slams-election-interference-as-linkedin-censors-gop-candidate-over-comments-on-china-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn censors GOP candidate for comments on China and climate change, Ramaswamy criticizes &#8216;election interference&#8217;."},"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\">30<\/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%2Framaswamy-slams-election-interference-as-linkedin-censors-gop-candidate-over-comments-on-china-climate-change%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=1938084&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--><h2>LinkedIn Accused of Interfering with Presidential Election<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0525\/d705a672-db23-4a82-9552-9148cc545f35\/audio.mp3?length=4481325&#038;duration=373\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is speaking out against LinkedIn for allegedly interfering with the presidential election by locking his account over comments he made about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Biden administration, and climate change.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone. It\u2019s remarkable that expressing fact-based views on climate policy and China-related policy, including legitimate criticism of President Biden, would result in outright censorship by a Microsoft-owned social media company,\u201d Ramaswamy, who announced his candidacy on Feb. 16, wrote in a statement to The Epoch Times on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBig Tech election interference has begun,\u201d Ramaswamy said in a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1661723333392474115\/video\/1\">post<\/a> on the same day.<\/p>\n<h3>LinkedIn Denies Access to Ramaswamy&#8217;s Account<\/h3>\n<p>Last week, LinkedIn denied Ramaswamy access to his account for comments that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> says violates its User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1661723333392474115\/photo\/2\">screenshot<\/a> of the company\u2019s notice sent in an email to Ramaswamy, the comments in question include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Feb. 5 statement by Ramaswamy: \u201cThe CCP is playing the Biden administration like a Chinese mandolin. China has weaponized the \u2018woke pandemic\u2019 to stay one step ahead of us. And it\u2019s working.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A comment dated Feb. 16, which reads: \u201cIf the climate religion was really about climate change, then they\u2019d be worried about, say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-hopeful-vivek-ramaswamys-linkedin-account-restricted-in-error-says-company\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy's LinkedIn account was mistakenly restricted, according to the company.\">shifting oil production<\/a> from the U.S. to places like Russia and China. Yet, the climate religion and its apostles in the ESG movement have a different objective.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A comment dated May 7, 2023, which says, \u201cThe climate agenda is a lie: fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ramaswamy made all three comments in videos posted on the platform.<\/p>\n<h3>LinkedIn&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>LinkedIn\u2019s action repeats a pattern of behavior shared by technological corporations that critics say amounts to censorship of alternative views. The platform wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1661723333392474115\/photo\/4\">email<\/a> to Ramaswamy on Thursday informing the presidential candidate that it does not \u201ctolerate misinformation, hate speech, violence, or any form of abuse on our platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf you agree to abide by LinkedIn\u2019s Terms and not to violate them again, we\u2019ll grant another chance to regain access to your account,\u201d reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1661723333392474115\/photo\/3\">screenshot<\/a> of another email that LinkedIn sent to Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to a press inquiry on Thursday, LinkedIn wrote to The Epoch Times that Ramaswamy\u2019s account was \u201crestricted in error and it\u2019s now back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Ramaswamy&#8217;s Criticism of Big Tech<\/h3>\n<p>Notably, Ramaswamy has been a vocal critic of what he describes as a collusion between the federal government and Big Tech; the latter, he says, censors viewpoints on behalf of the government.<\/p>\n<p>He proposed in his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woke-Inc-Corporate-Americas-Justice\/dp\/1546090789\">\u201cWoke Inc.,\u201d<\/a> to amend Section 230\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-slams-election-interference-as-linkedin-censors-gop-candidate-over-comments-on-china-climate-change\/\" title=\"LinkedIn censors GOP candidate for comments on China and climate change, Ramaswamy criticizes 'election interference'.\">law granting internet platforms immunity<\/a> from liability based on users\u2019 content\u2014to roll back the extent of the law\u2019s protection of these online platforms. Section 230 also applies to LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, \u2018Internet Service Providers\u2019 would have a choice: either they could benefit from the extraordinary privilege of legal immunity, or they could act like publishers and be held accountable for their content,\u201d Ramaswamy wrote in his book.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think LinkedIn&#8217;s actions amount to election interference? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican Presidential candidate, accused LinkedIn of meddling in the election by suspending his account for comments on the CCP, Biden administration, and climate change. 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