'The slippery slope of coming censorship': Megyn Kelly, Scott Baio, Oscar nominated Randy Quaid, an O.C. star and the original Buffy all slam Twitter for 'silencing' Trump after his permanent ban from the platform
Megyn Kelly, Scott Baio, an O.C. star and the original Buffy have all slammed Twitter for 'silencing' Donald Trump in the wake of his permanent ban from the platform.
They join actress Kirstie Alley who compared the suspension to slavery in a tweet on Saturday. The Cheers star, 69, said tech companies now hold ‘the keys to the chains’.
Former Fox News host Kelly called the move 'censorship', retweeting a statement by the ACLU which said that ‘it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions'.
Kelly wrote: 'Well looky here, folks who suggested it’s “dishonest” to worry about a slippery slope of coming censorship, even your civil liberties god sees what’s coming.'
Her former colleague Janice Dean tweeted a quote from Harry S. Truman, which read: 'Once a government is committed to silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens creating a country where everyone lives in fear.'
Trump fan Baio, who starred in Happy Days, noted he had lost thousands of followers after Twitter purged accounts Friday for content related to QAnon.
He wrote: 'Wednesday 656K Today 594K.' On Thursday he tweeted: 'Welcome to China', followed by the American flag emoji.
Oscar nominated actor Randy Quaid said: 'Big tech is trying to control and silence our president purely because of the way he was coming down on them by getting rid of Section 230, not because ANTIFA stormed DC AGAIN!'
Megyn Kelly, left, Scott Baio, right, an O.C. star and the original Buffy have all slammed Twitter for 'silencing' Donald Trump in the wake of his permanent ban from the platform
Former Fox News host Kelly called the move 'censorship' and a 'slippery slope'
Fellow actor Kevin Sorbo said: 'Wanna talk about “free speech” Twitter has deleted nearly 15,000 followers of mine since the protest on Jan 6.'
And O.C. star Samaire Armstrong, who played Anna in the teen drama, noted: 'People on here are fighting so hard to defend their sleep state, upset with what I am saying. How do so many people miss what is really going on?
'We’re losing our country’s sensibility and freedom to big Tech technocrats. How are you so blind? You’ve been duped.'
Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristy Swanson retweeted an account which read: 'I just took a dump without @jack permission. Am I going to be arrested?
Swanson wrote: 'LOL.'
O.C. star Samaire Armstrong, left, who played Anna in the teen drama and original Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristy Swanson, right, also weighed in on the debate
Oscar-nominated actor Randy Quaid said: 'Big tech is trying to control and silence our president purely because of the way he was coming down on them by getting rid of Section 230, not because ANTIFA stormed DC AGAIN!'
O.C. star Samaire Armstrong, who played Anna, said people had been 'duped'
Kelly's former colleague Janice Dean, tweeted a quote from Harry S. Truman
Actor Kevin Sorbo said: 'Wanna talk about “free speech” Twitter has deleted nearly 15,000 followers of mine since the protest on Jan 6.'
Trump fan Baio, who starred in Happy Days, noted he had lost thousands of followers after Twitter purged accounts Friday for content related to QAnon
Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristy Swanson retweeted an account which read: 'I just took a dump without @jack permission. Am I going to be arrested? Swanson wrote: 'LOL'
Actress Kirstie Alley compared the suspension to slavery in a tweet on Saturday. The Cheers star, 69, said tech companies now hold ‘the keys to the chains’.
Soap opera star Antonio Sabáto Jr. said in a now deleted tweet: 'You evil dirtbags Twitter @jack ASSES! Just please suspend all of us who support The Greatest President in History @realDonaldTrump and cut to the chase. 'Have a good time #TrumpWon'
Trump received a permanent suspension from Twitter on Friday night due to concerns that his account would be used to incite further violence after five people died in the Capitol riots on Wednesday.
The 40th Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Bernard B. Kerik, tweeted George Washington quote which read: 'If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.'
Soap opera star Antonio Sabáto Jr. said in a now deleted tweet: 'You evil dirtbags Twitter @jack ASSES! Just please suspend all of us who support The Greatest President in History @realDonaldTrump and cut to the chase.
'Have a good time #TrumpWon.'
Trump was banned from Twitter on Friday night due to concerns that his account would be used to incite further violence after five people died in the Capitol riots on Wednesday
The 40th Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Bernard B. Kerik, tweeted George Washington quote which read: 'If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter;
Cheers star Alley, 69, said tech companies now hold ‘the keys to the chains’
By contrast, Chrissy Teigen, Andy Cohen and Bette Midler all tweeted in celebration of the permanent suspension.
Twitter spent Friday night playing whack-a-mole with Trump as he tried to address his supporters on the social media platform through other people's accounts, after his own account received the ban.
Trump had initially tried to relay a message to his followers using the official President of the United States Twitter account, but they were deleted within minutes.
In the four-tweet thread, the president claimed that Twitter was not a network for free speech and said that he was now in talks to set up his own social media platform following his suspension.
Oscar-nominated actor Randy Quaid tweeted about Trump's ban
The POTUS account, which will be handed over to Joe Biden from Inauguration Day, remains active.
However, the Trump 2020 campaign Twitter account was the next to receive a suspension after it tweeted the president’s message amid increasingly desperate efforts to reach his following.
Digital director for the Trump campaign, Gary Coby, was next on the chopping block after he appeared to change his username to Donald J. Trump and in a tweet, offered the handle over to the president's Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino.
‘@DanScavino texting you my Twitter login … I already updated the profile pic, name, etc.’ the tweet read. ‘Feel free to use!’
Twitter has not commented on the suspensions since the announce the permanent ban on Trump’s account on Friday evening.
It said in a blog post that it was due to the risk of 'further incitement to violence', after the president's supporters rioted through the U.S. Captiol on Wednesday.
'After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,' the company wrote.
The account had 88.7million followers, which is nearly half of the company's total base of monetizable daily active users.
Donald Trump Jr. immediately spoke out about the ban, taking to his own Twitter account to claim that 'free-speech no longer exists in America'
Earlier on Friday, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell - two Trump loyalists - were also permanently banned by Twitter, and the YouTube account for Steve Bannon's 'War Room' podcast was 'terminated for a violation of YouTube's Terms of Service'.
Youtube had warned earlier this week that it would ban accounts that continued to spread misinformation about voter fraud.
Discord also announced Friday that it has banned the server The Donald which was connected the TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit.
Actress Kirstie Alley, 69, pictured above, came under fire on Saturday for comparing President Trump’s Twitter ban to slavery in a Twitter thread and refusing to back down
Donald Trump Jr. immediately spoke out about the ban, taking to his own Twitter account to claim that 'free-speech no longer exists in America'.
'We are living Orwell's 1984,' he fumed. 'It died with big tech and what's left is only there for a chosen few. This is absolute insanity!'
'So the ayatollah, and numerous other dictatorial regimes can have Twitter accounts with no issue despite threatening genocide to entire countries and killing homosexuals etc... but The President of the United States should be permanently suspended,' he added in a second tweet. 'Mao would be proud.'