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decided to sue Twitter for censorship.'
By Jared Taylor: As you may know, in 2018 I and American Renaissance sued Twitter after it banned our accounts. After some initial successes, we lost on a couple of crucial rulings and decided not to appeal. Here is the story.
In 2011, I started a Twitter account and American Renaissance set up a corporate account. In 2017, Twitter gave me its blue-check “verification badge,” and by December, I and AmRen had more than 70,000 combined followers. On the 18th of that month, Twitter permanently banned both accounts without explanation or warning. We immediately appealed the bans and were told by email that we were “violating Twitter’s Terms of Service, specifically the Twitter Rules against being affiliated with a violent extremist group.” This was, of course, nonsense, but we were never able to learn from Twitter what “violent extremist group” it had in mind or what our “affiliation” was. We decided to sue Twitter for censorship.
We filed a complaint, which went before Judge Harold Kahn in the Superior Court of California on March 14, 2018. We had three grounds to believe Twitter’s action in banning us was illegal, and they are laid out in the complaint below.
By Jared Taylor: As you may know, in 2018 I and American Renaissance sued Twitter after it banned our accounts. After some initial successes, we lost on a couple of crucial rulings and decided not to appeal. Here is the story.
In 2011, I started a Twitter account and American Renaissance set up a corporate account. In 2017, Twitter gave me its blue-check “verification badge,” and by December, I and AmRen had more than 70,000 combined followers. On the 18th of that month, Twitter permanently banned both accounts without explanation or warning. We immediately appealed the bans and were told by email that we were “violating Twitter’s Terms of Service, specifically the Twitter Rules against being affiliated with a violent extremist group.” This was, of course, nonsense, but we were never able to learn from Twitter what “violent extremist group” it had in mind or what our “affiliation” was. We decided to sue Twitter for censorship.
We filed a complaint, which went before Judge Harold Kahn in the Superior Court of California on March 14, 2018. We had three grounds to believe Twitter’s action in banning us was illegal, and they are laid out in the complaint below.