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Just as it was gaining momentum and attracting attention, Twitter shut down and silenced an account that promoted a free market vision for environmentalism timed with Earth Day. Special credit here belongs to Eric Bolling, who used his own twitter account and his program “The Five” on Fox News to bring attention the cause.
The account, @FreeMarket_US, a project of Americans for Limited Government (ALG), went live a few days before Earth Day and proceeded to pick up considerable steam. On Earth Day, the official website for Free Market America was launched and its Facebook and Twitter components started to come to life as well. The first video put out by Free Market America, “If I wanted America to fail,” got over 120,000 hits in less than 36 hours — that’s not too shabby.
Adam Bitely, an editor for Net Right Daily, the official website for ALG, described what happened after the Twitter account was suspended mid-way through Earth Day.
“After numerous attempts to contact Twitter and see what the story was behind the suspension, ALG launched a twitter campaign against twitter,” he wrote. “Urging all of our followers to contact @twitter to ask why the Free Market America site has been suspended, thousands came to our defense.”
Bitely credited Bolling and others including Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) who tweeted to her more than 270,000 followers multiple times, talk radio host Neal Boortz (@talkmaster), and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, for bringing pressure on Twitter.
The account was eventually restored. But the lesson here is for free market activists to remain and vigilant at a time when green pressure groups, and their allies in old and new media, are out to stifle dissenting views.
For latest please follow @freemarket_us, @billwilsonalg, @netrightdaily and @limitgovt.
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Indy| 4.27.12 @ 10:58AM
I wonder if this documentary will take off on twitter, watch when you have time, Allen West, Andy McCarthy and others are in it, Louie Gohmert's questionning of DHS secretary is an eye opener, she has yet to get back to him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
Bob From District 9| 4.29.12 @ 8:49AM
What a piece of trash.
Bob From District 9| 4.29.12 @ 9:00AM
Oh, any rant about Radical Islam that does not name the only source of threat to the US in the Islamic world is a farce.
That source is Wahhabi, and the homeland of Wahhabi is Saudi Arabia.
And Saudi Arabia is the buddy of Republicans in the US, through big oil.
Shane| 4.27.12 @ 12:41PM
Stupid Americans. "The account was eventually restored": Wow. That's some fucking censorship.
Twitter accounts randomly disappear all the time through errror...even mine was "suspended" once.
Bob S| 4.27.12 @ 3:20PM
Yes, keep using our stupid American services. I guess your people were not smart enough to invent their own. I guess you also come from a country where censorship of a much worse kind is so common you've been desensitized to more subtle attempts at censorship.
Shane| 4.28.12 @ 1:01PM
"Yes, keep using our stupid American services"
Um, like what?. We don't use your "services" nor do we want them! You have the worst health care system in the developed world, your schools are a joke, your troops are incompetent and a disgrace.... I could go on but I don't want to embarrass you. Oh, and no... we have zero censorship here. We're free. And when i say free I mean really free...not America's version of "free". Ie free.....unless you're Gay and/or Muslim. I'm thankful to live in a truly multicultural integrateded society that discriminates against nobody.
Bob S| 4.27.12 @ 3:17PM
Jeffrey Lord does an excellent job of exposing leftist groups out to stifle free speech. He certainly remains vigilant against green pressure groups, as should all of us. It's like they say: follow the money.
JmsA| 4.27.12 @ 8:07PM
Why all the hate, Shane?
Shane| 4.28.12 @ 1:05PM
It's not hate, it's gloating. It's the rest of the world having the last laugh. You better get used to it cos your time is up.