FCC commissioner rips Twitter for suspending popular conservative account

By John Gage

Published February 4, 2020 9:53pm ET

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FCC commissioner rips Twitter for suspending popular conservative account — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioners Michael O'Rielly, left, and Brendan Carr, turn to answer a question from the media after an FCC meeting to vote on net neutrality, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. | (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

The commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission blasted Twitter after the social media company suspended the popular conservative account Comfortably Smug for a tweet about Joe Biden.

“Hard to see how this @ComfortablySmug tweet – which combined known examples of political satire – violated Twitter’s rules against abuse and harassment,” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said Tuesday on Twitter.

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