{"id":7334,"date":"2022-03-09T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T02:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T02:09:19","slug":"twitter-censorship-political-thought-control-twitter-suspends-account-belonging-to-ontario-mpp-randy-hillier-http-cafe-nfshost-com-p7334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7334","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Censorship & Political Thought Control: Twitter Suspends Account Belonging to Ontario MPP Randy Hillier http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7334"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Twitter Suspends Account Belonging to Ontario MPP Randy Hillier by Miriam Katawazi, CTV News Toronto \u2013 March 8, 2022 https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/twitter-suspends-account-belonging-to-ontario-mpp-randy-hillier-1.5811195<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ontario independent MPP Randy Hillier has been suspended from Twitter on Tuesday after months of speaking out against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health measures. The news comes after Ottawa police recently revealed they were investigating the MPP\u2019s Twitter activity due to comments related to the so-called \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protests in the capital city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In messages to CTV News Toronto, the Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MPP said the social media platform suspended his account because he \u201cstated the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI erred and stated a fact which Twitter found offensive,\u201d he said on Tuesday, adding that his comments were in regards to the court-ordered Pfizer documents released last week about deaths due to vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement to CTV News Toronto, Twitter Canada confirmed that the account was permanently suspended for “violating our COVID-19 misleading information policy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On their website, Twitter states that they suspend accounts that violate their rules, which are meant to ensure \u201call people can participate in public conversations freely and safely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MPP has faced backlash in the past over his comments and behaviour on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, the Ontario legislature passed a motion that Hillier wouldn\u2019t be recognized by the Speaker until he apologized for his conduct on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MPP has made racist and discriminatory social media statements about federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, and also allegedly wrote posts that were insinuating a call to violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, while the convoy protests were being dispersed in late February, Hillier reportedly called for his followers on Twitter to \u201ckeep calling\u201d emergency phone lines in Ottawa despite police urging people to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November last year, Hillier also apologized for a post in which he used names and photos of people who had passed away to suggest without evidence that they had died due to COVID-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twitter Suspends Account Belonging to Ontario MPP Randy Hillier by Miriam Katawazi, CTV News Toronto \u2013 March 8, 2022 https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/twitter-suspends-account-belonging-to-ontario-mpp-randy-hillier-1.5811195 Ontario independent MPP Randy Hillier has been suspended from Twitter on Tuesday after months of speaking out against COVID-19 vaccine … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2299,406,1894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}