Raheem Kassam had what I wanted - a ticket to his Saturday night invitation-only CPAC party - and he also had something else I wanted, a newsworthy quote: "I think we're winning."
A former editor for Breitbart who is now a fellow at the Claremont Institute, Kassam was talking about the Left's campaign to silence conservative voices on social media.
Kassam's ban got the attention of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted: "I'm sure this was an 'accident' like I've been hearing from the social media masters. Funny that the accidents only happen one way." Shortly afterwards, Kassam's account was restored, a result he credited to the intervention by the President's son.
Facebook never explained why Kassam was temporarily banned, although many suspected it was an attempt to intimidate the popular author of No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You.
Anti-conservative censorship online has gone from bad to worse.
At CPAC Thursday, Loomer appeared at a press conference to discuss her role in a recent investigation of Omar, asserting that pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has connections to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, was responsible for Twitter's banning her: "Why is a designated foreign terrorist organization lobbying with Twitter, an American social media company, to ban a Jewish-American conservative journalist who is exposing the anti-Semitism, the fraud and the terrorism ties that Ilhan Omar has?".
If Raheem Kassam is correct about what the recent campaign of online censorship means - that leftists in Big Tech are acting out of fear that they are losing the Internet battle against Trump's supporters - it may not be long before these powerful corporations are forced to pay a high price for attempting to deprive Americans of freedom of speech.
https://spectator.org/cpac-the-fight-against-online-censorship/
A former editor for Breitbart who is now a fellow at the Claremont Institute, Kassam was talking about the Left's campaign to silence conservative voices on social media.
Kassam's ban got the attention of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted: "I'm sure this was an 'accident' like I've been hearing from the social media masters. Funny that the accidents only happen one way." Shortly afterwards, Kassam's account was restored, a result he credited to the intervention by the President's son.
Facebook never explained why Kassam was temporarily banned, although many suspected it was an attempt to intimidate the popular author of No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You.
Anti-conservative censorship online has gone from bad to worse.
At CPAC Thursday, Loomer appeared at a press conference to discuss her role in a recent investigation of Omar, asserting that pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has connections to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, was responsible for Twitter's banning her: "Why is a designated foreign terrorist organization lobbying with Twitter, an American social media company, to ban a Jewish-American conservative journalist who is exposing the anti-Semitism, the fraud and the terrorism ties that Ilhan Omar has?".
If Raheem Kassam is correct about what the recent campaign of online censorship means - that leftists in Big Tech are acting out of fear that they are losing the Internet battle against Trump's supporters - it may not be long before these powerful corporations are forced to pay a high price for attempting to deprive Americans of freedom of speech.
https://spectator.org/cpac-the-fight-against-online-censorship/
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