Twitter won't Reinstate Loomer

Timothy Birdnow

Laura Loomer has been banned by most social networking companies. Now that she is the Republican candidate for Congess they remain silent on reversing her ban - and Twitter has said they will NOT repeal it.

According to Breitbart:

With the exception of Twitter, which has refused to reinstate Laura Loomer’s account following the conservative activist’s victory in the Republican primary to contest Florida’s 21st congressional district earlier this week, Big Tech has remained silent on whether it will reverse permanent bans placed on her by many companies.

Loomer, now a candidate for a major party in a congressional election, remains banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, GoFundMe, Venmo, Uber, and Lyft. All of these platforms remain open to her Democrat opponent, Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL).

The Loomer campaign does not plan on taking this lying down:

Now that Loomer is a Republican candidate, it is leading to renewed calls for tech censorship to be looked at as an illegal in-kind campaign contribution.

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), corporations are banned from making free contributions, including "any services, or anything of value” to federal candidates. Because of this, Loomer’s lawyers have arguedthat social media companies are breaching FEC regulations by granting her Democrat opponent access to their platform while denying it to her.

Following Loomer’s primary win, the conservative think tank American Principles Project (APP) wrote a letter to the FEC calling on the Commission to once again consider the matter of tech censorship as a campaign contribution issue.

So, why was she banned? For criticizing Ilhan Omar.

Omar, you may remember, has made repeated anti-American and anti-semitic comments and has sneered at the country that allowed her to immigrate here.

I hope Loomer sues the pants off Twitter.

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