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Suspended: https://twitter.com/blm

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That's not BLM's account. This is:

https://twitter.com/Blklivesmatter

For proof that's official, see https://blacklivesmatter.com/statement-from-black-lives-matt...

It's not suspended.

Here's a better example. Spike Lee was _never_ banned, even though he sent an angry mob to an innocent person's house where people who happened to share a name with someone in the news lived.

Spike Lee settled:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/spike-le...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spike-lee-sued-zimmerman_n_42...

From [0]

So they still want to defund the police. I don't think even the next administration would agree with demand #6.

[0] https://twitter.com/Blklivesmatter/status/134773793490928845...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130825024428/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170718112930/https://twitter.c...

Strangely enough, Twitter's former CEO Dick Costolo said this in October:

"Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution. I'll happily provide video commentary."

@dickc was never suspended. He still has his account.

That really doesn’t feel like inciting or calling for riots or violence to me. Maybe if @dickc had a large and heavily armed following there’d be more subtext to read between the lines... (i.e. “and we should start this riot now”)

I thought it was going to be the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation.

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