Alex Jones has been placed in read-only mode on Twitter and has been suspended for seven days from posting any new tweets. Users can still browse Jones’ Twitter account and the tweets that he’s already made, but the offending tweet(s) have been removed and Jones will spend a week in the equivalent of a virtual timeout, reports CNET.
When Twitter was reached for comment about what tweet exactly put Jones in the dog house, it wasn’t clarified what he had said to incur the week-long suspension.
This move comes as Twitter has been pressured by Social Justice activists pressuring Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to permanently ban Alex Jones for having opinions that the Left dislike.
In fact, GeekWire is reporting that Twitter users are using blocklists to block Fortune 500 companies in order to put pressure on Twitter staff to permanently ban Alex Jones. This includes Grab Your Wallet co-founder Shannon Coulter, who encouraged her followers to block Twitter’s “most lucrative advertisers” until Jones is removed from the platform.
Good morning! To encourage Twitter to drop Alex Jones, I just blocked the Twitter accounts of every Fortune 500 company w/ a Twitter presence. Ready to mass block Twitter’s most lucrative advertisers with me? There are three quick & easy ways. Instructions are in this thread.
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018
When Twitter drops Alex Jones, I’ll immediately unblock all the companies on this list, which means that you will too — instantly & automatically. That’s the power of this method. If enough people participate, it gives Twitter a strong incentive to change for the better!
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018
I chose Fortune 500 companies b/c they represent the bulk of Twitter’s ad revenu. They’re also powerful enough to put real pressure on Twitter’s leadership team. Finally, I feel it would be neither fair nor strategic to target smaller businesses, so I focused on the big players.
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018
According to Culter, more than 50,000 people have “participated” in the blocklist.
Twitter originally opted not to ban Alex Jones or Infowars along with the rest of the major tech companies such as YouTube, Apple, Spotify, YouPorn, Pinterest, Facebook, and Vimeo, since they claimed that Jones had not actually violated the terms to the point where it warranted a permanent ban.
Some Leftists have denied that this was an organized effort of censorship from big tech, but to most normal people it looks like an organized effort of censorship from big tech.
(Thanks for the news tip The Positivist)