{"id":1938411,"date":"2023-05-26T04:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-platform-locks-account-of-republican-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T04:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:45:45","slug":"social-media-platform-locks-account-of-republican-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-platform-locks-account-of-republican-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s Account Locked by Social Media Platform."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fsocial-media-platform-locks-account-of-republican-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy%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=1938411&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>Republican Presidential Candidate Locked Out of LinkedIn Account Over Climate Activism Opinions<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vivek-ramaswamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> revealed on Wednesday that he had been locked out of his LinkedIn account over opinions he expressed about climate activism and the Biden administration\u2019s policies with respect to China, raising concerns that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a> are attempting to control the narrative in the upcoming election cycle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ramaswamy, a former pharmaceutical entrepreneur who unexpectedly entered the presidential contest earlier this year, shared screenshots of an email he received from LinkedIn accusing him of \u201cmisinformation, hate speech, violence,\u201d and other breaches of the platform\u2019s user agreement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf they can do it to me, they can really do it to anybody,\u201d Ramaswamy said in a video statement. \u201cThese aren\u2019t really the actions of private companies. These are so<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.\">-called privately held companies<\/a>, or publicly traded private companies, that are doing the work of the government through the backdoor: silencing speech that the government would never dare to censor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The email from LinkedIn added that the posts constituted \u201cmisleading or inaccurate information.\u201d One status from Ramaswamy referenced by LinkedIn asserted that the Chinese Communist Party has been \u201cplaying the Biden administration like a Chinese mandolin\u201d and \u201cweaponized the \u2018woke pandemic\u2019 to stay one step ahead of us.\u201d Another post contended that the \u201cclimate religion and its apostles in the ESG movement\u201d would be opposed to shifting oil production away from the United States and toward Russia and China if they did not \u201chave a different objective,\u201d while a third said that \u201cfossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy added that the move from LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, is \u201ceven more dangerous than direct government censorship in many ways, because it is a hybrid of corporate power and state power together, doing what neither one of them could do on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Lawmakers Subjected to Social Media Censorship<\/h3>\n<p>Republican lawmakers, including presidential contenders, have long been subjected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-president-condemns-censorship-of-president-trump\/\" title=\"Mexico President condemns censorship of President Trump\">social media censorship<\/a>. Former President Donald Trump, currently considered a frontrunner in the Republican primary race alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was suspended from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter after the January 6 protests at the Capitol Building, although the platforms have more recently restored access to his accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Technology companies and social media platforms have drawn backlash in recent years for censoring information critical of the federal response to the pandemic and the efficacy of public health mandates, as well as content interpreted by executives to be hateful or violent in nature. Several installments of the Twitter Files, a set of internal documents which new Twitter owner Elon Musk provided to investigative journalists, indicated that former executives worked with federal officials to restrict the advancement of certain claims, as well as leveraged shadow bans and suspensions against conservative and moderate users.<\/p>\n<h3>Open Admission of Censorship Operations<\/h3>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-platform-locks-account-of-republican-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy\/\" title=\"GOP Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's Account Locked by Social Media Platform.\">prominent social media companies<\/a> have openly admitted to maintaining censorship operations. TikTok revealed last month that the firm, controlled by Chinese technology company ByteDance, hires \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of employees dedicated to content moderation. The platform has emerged as the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-did-gen-z-turn-out-to-vote-for-democrats-and-against-their-own-interests\/\" title=\"Why Did Gen Z Turn Out To Vote For Democrats And Against Their Own Interests?\">popular social media site<\/a> for American youth.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>executive, claims that LinkedIn locked him out of his account due to his views on climate activism and the Biden administration&#8217;s China policies. This has raised concerns about social media companies trying to influence the upcoming election. 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