Tucker Carlson Spotlights Twitter Censorship of Pro-Life Group

DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) – Twitter, a privately owned social media giant that boasts of more than 300 million users, is censoring a pro-life group’s ads, labeling them hate speech.

On Monday, Tucker Carlson covered this ongoing censorship by Twitter on his show Tucker Carlson Tonight. Live Action is the pro-life group, who’s ads are being called hate speech by Twitter and flagged on their social media platform.

Carlson invited on his show Catholic convert Lila Rose, founder and president of the organization, to discuss the issue. On the show, Rose explained exactly what Twitter was objecting to. “The kind of tweets,” said Rose, “that they’re calling a violation of their hate and sensitive policy show ultrasound images, they’re fact checks of Planned Parenthood, they’re discussing the prenatal life in its beauty. These are the sorts of tweets that Twitter is trying to block.”

Carlson posted a picture of one such ad that Twitter refused to allow on its platform. It was a picture of a baby in utero with the caption, “I AM NOT A POTENTIAL HUMAN. I AM A HUMAN WITH POTENTIAL.” On top of the ad is a message by Rose, which reads, “Everyone deserves the right to life! Join me in standing up for human dignity and the least of these.”
According to Carlson, Twitter wants Live Action to delete these so-called “sensitive ads” before it will allow the group to buy more ads. Rose points out that Planned Parenthood (PP), the nation’s biggest abortion chain, is allowed by Twitter to run ads on their platform, but Live Action, who she calls “the leading pro-life platform for the pro-life movement,” is not allowed to do so. She says Twitter is claiming such ads violate their “hate and sensitive policy.”

“This is something that they’ve been kind of keeping a secret, and now we’re trying to get this news out that they’ve been blocking us,” said Rose. Carlson responded, “But meanwhile the abortion industry gets to advertise all it wants.”

We’re trying to get this news out that they’ve been blocking us.

Rose points out that the abortion giant PP has more than a one billion dollar budget and is committing almost 900 abortion every day, yet Twitter ironically says “they’re not violating the hate and sensitive policy.” She said Live Action is simply “exposing them, talking about the value of preborn life,” which she says are messages that a lot of Americans agree with.

She says Twitter has been banning their ads for months now. She relates that Twitter wants them to delete their entire website and create an entirely new website before they can do any more advertising on Twitter. Carlson posted a response from Twitter, which claimed its policy was a set of “clear, transparent rules.” Rose denies that the rules are clear because it “took over a year to finally get from Twitter what’s wrong with these tweets showing ultrasounds.”

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