Nevada Senate candidate and retired Army Captain Sam Brown said Twitter “messed with the wrong soldier” Monday when he found out he was banned from the platform “permanently,” although his account was later reinstated after Twitter acknowledged its mistake.
In an emailed statement to the Washington Examiner, Brown said he was censored by a bias from the social media platform, while the Taliban and the Left were not.
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“For several hours today, Twitter’s blatantly biased censors restricted this conservative soldier’s ability to speak to my followers, while allowing my political opponents, and even the Taliban, to continue to use their platform,” Brown wrote. “The Founders never envisioned that a private, leftist company like Twitter could have so much power over political speech.”
Brown told the Washington Examiner he felt unjustly targeted by the social media giant because he spoke out about their censorship.
“Twitter can claim they only suspended my account by ‘accident.’ When I get to the U.S. Senate, it won’t be an accident when we restrict Big Tech’s ability to exercise monopolistic control over the public debate,” Brown said.
Brown slammed Twitter earlier this year when one of his tweets was labeled “potentially sensitive” when he thought the social media platform issued the warning because of his face, which was burned in 2008 from a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan. However, Twitter rejected the claim, stating the warning can be disabled on the user’s account.
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“As someone who has been targeted multiple times by Twitter’s censorship regime, this issue is now personal to me,” Brown told Fox News. “It’s clear that decisive action must be taken immediately to rein in Big Tech and the partisan elites who run them.”
Brown announced his campaign for Senate in June. He is running in the GOP primary to unseat Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in the midterm elections next year.
