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By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine, Jan. 20, 2021

Eric Sammons is the editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine. He is the author, most recently, of The Old Evangelization: How to Spread the Faith Like Jesus Did (Catholic Answers, 2017).

Eric SammonsAs we’ve all heard, Twitter and other social media platforms are intensifying their crackdown on any Wrong Opinions that might be expressed on their platforms. I decided to test Twitter’s policies by making the following tweet:

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Read closely: I’m simply stating my own beliefs, which, although they are considered controversial today, are all simply statements of Catholic teaching or common sense (and for those not on Twitter, “@jack” is the handle of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey).

Well, Leftists are nothing if not predictable. A few days later I received a notice that this tweet had caused my account to be locked for “hateful conduct:” …