The Washington _____ reports that our favorite online journalist has been permanently banned from Twitter:
On Sunday, (Charles) Johnson was permanently suspended from the site after asking for funds to “take out” the civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, who’s been active in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo. Twitter has also suspended a series of Johnson’s new accounts, including @citizentrolling and @freechucknow, prompting Johnson and his lawyers to threaten legal action and accuse the site of “censorship.”
“Twitter doesn’t seem to have a problem with people using their service to coordinate riots,” Johnson complained on his blog, GotNews.com, which has since been downed by an apparent DDoS attack. “But they do have a problem with the kind of journalism I do.”
In other words, Johnson’s saying, Twitter is differentiating between types of acceptable speech; they’re redrawing the boundaries of things you can say in public and things you can’t say in public, in a way that Johnson and others — including Twitter! — aren’t necessarily used to.... Rest of article.
Mr. Johnson defended himself on his website:
I am an award-winning journalist who has exposed frauds, ended careers, and been profiled in major publications. And now I’m trending on Twitter while my account, @chuckcjohnson, is suspended on Twitter.
Last night I tweeted that I was interested in doing some research on the twitter user, @deray a.k.a. DeRay McKesson. Rest of article.
@Deray is a leader of the anti-cop astroturfing currently hitting the inner city black community.
12 comments:
I know Chris McD must be saddened.
And now the world will be denied the bright mind of - at least, by McDaniel's opinion - a 'great investigative journalist'. All I can say is good riddance, but wish I could say RIP so we could be absolutely assured that he will not have to put up with his 'imaginative rantings' ever again.
Another Chuck Johnson (the one running Little Green Footballs) seems overjoyed at the suspension. Apparently Chuck C. Johnson 'cyperstalked' LGF's Johnson at some point.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44659_Chuck_Johnsons_Last_Twitter_Account_@GotNewsDotCom_Is_Now_Suspended_Too
Johnson is only marginally more slimy than Alan Lange.
Awards? Name one real award big boy. And just exactly whose career have you ended? Other than your own career, of course. Maybe "Senator" McDaniel needs a new press boy.
Just a year ago, there were Mississippians sending Chuckie Neckbeard cash.
Joe Rogan had him on his podcast not long ago. Spent 2 hours talking about rape. It was bizarre.
So you listened to him for 2 hours? That is bizarre.
Hey sheep at 9:38, forgive me for informing myself on a subject, this one being the vilified Chucky, before forming my own opinion.
I will not be surprised if Mr. Johnson one day becomes one of too many who prove they are " a danger to others" by doing himself what he fails to incite or encourage others to do. He will likely imagine he is setting an example others will follow. Such is the thought pattern of the seriously mentally ill.
And, here's a warning to politicians: ISIS is comprised of the psychotics Hamas and Al Quaeda imagined they could use and control!
SLATE: Why Did Twitter Ban Chuck C. Johnson?
The infamous troll has tweeted some truly horrible stuff. That doesn’t mean he should have been suspended.
Good article. He's a troll, but the incident preceding his banishment didn't seem worthy of the punishment in and of itself. Perhaps Twitter does have a "x" strikes and you're out policy.
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