Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@owenbenjamin)

Both of these deplatformings happened in conjunction this morning. Last time my YouTube was removed, the COVID hoax was launched. No need to panic, they need 3 things for their little gay spells/card tricks; fear, confusion and most importantly the illusion of consensus by censoring dissenting information. Out of an abundance of caution, we're solidifying lines of communication incase something big is about to happen. For the record and historical purposes; neither of these bans were for ban-evasion. Both platforms indicated to the United States government that they were welcoming back previously banned users. I want to stress that in both cases, the TOS was followed because if it came to be that I was kicked off (as it has this morning), it would show that good faith attempts to follow TOS have no impact on their deplatformings. Moreover, they appear to designate individuals as problematic, instead of behavior- which is antithetical American values. Simply put- their world view and ours is not compatible.