Mar 10 - newt gingrich....claims being slapped with twitter suspension is censorship

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich railed against Twitter for his suspension this month, excoriating the company for �aggressive and biased censorship.�

The suspension came as a result of a March 3 message he wrote on the platform. �If there is a covid surge in Texas the fault will not be Gov. [Greg] Abbott�s common sense reforms,� Gingrich wrote

�The greatest threat of a covid surge comes from Biden�s untested illegal immigrants pouring across the border. We have no way of knowing how many of them are bringing covid with them.� As a result, Twitter told Gingrich it had judged him guilty of �violating our rules against hateful conduct.�

�To unlock the account, the message informed me I must delete the tweet or go through an appeals process,� Gingrich said. �As I told Mediaite on Friday, I fail to see how drawing attention to the public health dangers of massive illegal immigration during a pandemic can be censored. So, to unlock my account, I deleted the tweet this morning.�

The former House speaker said he had questions for the company that he was submitting in the form of an open letter. �Do the Twitter censors acknowledge that we are in a pandemic?� Gingrich wrote

�Do the Twitter censors acknowledge that testing is a key tool in f*ghting the pandemic? Do the Twitter censors acknowledge that, unlike people entering the country legally, people who come into the United States illegally are not tested for COVID-19? Do the Twitter censors acknowledge that, unlike U.S. citizens, people who come into the country illegally are unlikely to voluntarily get tested because they are trying to keep a low profile?�

He also pointed out that Louis Farrakhan �was free to tweet that the Covid-19 vaccine is dangerous,� along with the message, �God is going to turn your vaccine into death in a hurry.�

A spokesman for Gingrich voiced a similar message in a statement to Mediaite last week following his suspension. �Several Texas Democratic Congressman have warned publicly that the United States is on the edge of a crisis on the border � and that there is a significant public health threat as part of that crisis,� the spokesman noted. �I hope Twitter will recognize its mistake and reopen my account.�

�I was censored, but the Chinese Communist dictatorship � which bans Twitter in its own country � was able to spread propaganda and lies about the virus and its origins,� Gingrich added in his op-ed

�For public forums to serve the public good, they must be open and unbiased. I hope Twitter will stop its aggressive and biased censorship, and return to the spirit and ideals of free speech which allowed it to prosper in the first place.�

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment