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#FreeStacy #CPAC2016: Because ‘Freedom of Expression Is Essential’

Posted on | March 2, 2016 | 52 Comments

 

Hitting the road tonight, folks! For the 11th consecutive year, I’ll be covering the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week at National Harbor. The big political news today is that Ben Carson appears to be out of the GOP campaign, but will speak Friday at CPAC, while Mitt Romney plans to use his Thursday CPAC speech to make the case against Donald Trump, who will speak Saturday at the conference.

As for me, in addition to covering CPAC, I also plan to call attention to the Left’s war against online free speech:

On February 19, Twitter suspended the account of award-winning conservative journalist Robert Stacy McCain. His supporters immediately launched the #FreeStacy hashtag campaign as a protest against this censorship.
McCain’s suspension came 10 days after Twitter had announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council” that included radical feminist Anita Sarkeesian and many left-wing progressive organizations. McCain had been using Twitter since 2009 and his account (@rsmccain) had tens of thousands of followers. In addition, Twitter also suspended @SexTroubleBook, an account McCain created in 2015 to promote his book Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature. . . .

You can read the rest at Da Tech Guy Blog.

The #FreeStacy campaign is getting widespread attention, including an editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Back in 2011, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone boldly declared that “freedom of expression is essential,” and that while some tweets on the social media platform might “downright anger a vast majority of users” — and that while even Twitter itself didn’t always agree with what its users chose to tweet — the company would “keep the information flowing irrespective of any view we may have about the content.”
Five years later, however, that pledge has pretty has much fallen by the wayside.
Last month, the social media platform rescinded the “verified” user status of ring-wing pundit Milo Yiannopoulos, and, in the weeks since, has also banned controversial right-wing writer Robert Stacy McCain, as well as censor a hashtag protesting the move.
Why did Twitter take these actions? Presumably because they align with the mission of its new Trust and Safety Council. The council, unveiled by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey earlier this month, strives to “ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter,” while also striking “the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power.”
While Twitter, much like college campuses, claims to support all things diversity, the makeup of this council shows that the company has no interest in true diversity of thought. As Mr. McCain pointed out in a recent interview with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, of the 40 organizations on the council, many are left-leaning and none is conservative or libertarian. If Mr. Dorsey truly valued diversity, he wouldn’t have assembled what amounts to an echo chamber that places liberal thought-police ideology over (truly) free speech. . . .

Meanwhile, I’ve written an 1,800-word column about it:

Feminism is always a lecture, never a debate. Any criticism of feminist discourse is cited as proof that the critic is a vile misogynist. Objections to the anti-male rhetoric of feminist ideologues like Anita Sarkeesian are construed by her as threats to her safety.
“Every day I see my words scrutinized, twisted and distorted by thousands of men hell-bent on destroying and silencing me,” Sarkeesian told her sympathetic listeners at a feminist conference in Sydney, Australia. . . .
Who is being destroyed, and who is being silenced? I’d like to explain this to the tens of thousands of people who followed my Twitter account, but unfortunately my account has been destroyed and silenced. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 

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BANNED BY TWITTER!

 

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

 

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Comments

52 Responses to “#FreeStacy #CPAC2016: Because ‘Freedom of Expression Is Essential’”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 6:56 pm

    #FreeStacy: it needs to be said, again and again!

    https://twitter.com/MsEBL/status/704794357916782592

  2. Fail Burton
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 7:22 pm

    In 7 years spent with 2 different companies where I spent my fair share of time in freezer warehouses doing a job I despised because of the sheer physical discomfort, I never once saw a woman on the floor. Has anyone ever seen a feminist cry for diversity in that sector of American jobs? That truth tells you the lie which sits at the heart of modern feminism. They are liars and con artists out for plush and ease and not the hard work.

  3. CrustyB
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 8:32 pm

    They want #EqualPay, not #EqualWork.

  4. Unreliable Consent
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 9:07 pm

    Freedom of expression
    https://twitter.com/DateOffCampus/status/705205429937311744

  5. Unreliable Consent
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 9:49 pm

    Freedom of expression from silenced victims
    https://twitter.com/faerievixen/status/705222091281448960

  6. BFrito
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 10:15 pm

    If Mittens Romney is being given a forum at CPAC, isn’t that evidence that CPAC is a bunch of RINO cucks and morally and intellectually corrupt?

  7. DeadMessenger
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 10:50 pm

    If I weren’t out of work and broke, I would totally screen a boatload of teeshirts like this for McCain to hand out at CPAC.

  8. DeadMessenger
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 10:52 pm

    They think nail technicians should make the same as civil engineers. Only without all that useless non-gender studies education.

  9. DeadMessenger
    March 2nd, 2016 @ 10:56 pm

    The liberal Mitt Romney is going to make a case against the liberal Donald Trump? Isn’t that one of those pot/kettle things?

  10. Garym
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 1:28 am

    Gee …… you just couldn’t be a trHump supporter now, could you?

  11. Wombat_socho
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 1:41 am

    You get one warning. Keep talking like a butthurt Sturmtrumper, and you’ll be peddling your opinion somewhere else.

  12. Daniel Freeman
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 3:02 am

    The globalist Mitt Romney is going to make a case against the nationalist Donald Trump. So except for the minority of Republicans who are actually conservative — I’m sorry, but it’s true — they are opposite on a relevant axis.

    You know, kind of like how we’re passionate on the orthogonal feminist/civilizational axis. Which more should care about.

  13. Fail Burton
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 3:57 am

    This is my general impression: the GOP generally do not understand what it is which is hitting them. Conservative journalists are fighting old wars and falling down on doing their homework. I don’t think Trump understands what’s hitting America either but he does understand it is a false narrative and he is simply fighting it with his own narrative. In other words he is opposing anything the opposition does simply because they wish it and he opposes anyone in the GOP who negotiates with liberals about amnesties and such.

    People have go to understand how much Stacy has gone for the jugular here. He is 100% right about Third Wave Feminism behind the root cause of everything you are seeing in the public arena which is making people angry. It is a sociopathic ideology hiding behind social justice skirts to mainstream hate speech against America, its history, its success, men, whites and heterosexuality itself. In short, it is dedicated to undermining success and promoting mediocrity and failure based on the same identity demonization theories as the KKK or the New Black Panther Party.

    People need to accept the fact that there are very clever perfect storms that can be started by a handful of determined sociopaths the same way Hitler started in a basement with a few guys. That is how radical feminism started and now it is very close to having its lies become the law of the land. These people tell you again and again what the enemy is: he is straight, white, Western, male and Christian. By default, one must fill America with the non-Western, female, lesbianic, non-Christian and non-white. There is no moral ethos in play, only identity-hatred. The GOP better wake up. If Trump realized a tipping point is being reached from which there is no return and the GOP considers him a clown, then how much more clownish the GOP. “Compared to what…?” is the operational phrase here.

  14. Fail Burton
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 4:04 am

    It is evidence conservative writers have fallen down on the job. That is being solved. Two years ago everything was the “PC” and people never used terms like “intersectionality” or “Third Wave,” or even “feminism.” Politicians are not academics, journalists or scholars. They need to be informed.

    That is why I believe what we truly need is a call for Senate hearings on Third Wave Feminism, its origins, its gender studies programs, the whole nine yards. I honestly believe that story will shock the nation. Right now feminism is still a pack of cockroaches in the kitchen with the lights off.

  15. DeadMessenger
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 6:07 am

    Trump is not necessarily a nationalist. He’s whatever has something in it for him. He’s a Donaldist. So that can go any kind of way. Heck, I wish he were a nationalist. But he has no idea whatsoever about policy, except the notion that said policy could possibly be good for Donald.

  16. Quartermaster
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 6:50 am

    I think he’s right about CPAC. Any organization that refuses to allow Pamela Geller to speak about radical Islam, or gives a forum to Romney, after everything he’s said and done since he lost to Zer0, has a real problem.

  17. BettyDSmith
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 6:53 am

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  18. Jeanette Victoria
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 7:30 am

    He’s a populist…..I like the fact that he is screwing with the media but as a TRUE conservative I’d never vote for him.

  19. DrGreatCham
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:22 am

    “Heck, I wish he were a nationalist. But he has no idea whatsoever about
    policy, except the notion that said policy could possibly be good for
    Donald.”

    Yep, Orange Donald does what’s best for Orange Donald. The only pleasure I’m getting out of this mess is the rats in the hold getting exposed to daylight.

  20. DrGreatCham
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:23 am

    He’s only lovable for the enemies he makes, and he’s had a knack for making the right ones the last few months.

  21. DrGreatCham
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:25 am

    “The GOP better wake up. If Trump realized a tipping point is being reached from which there is no return and the GOP considers him a clown,
    then how much more clownish the GOP. “Compared to what…?” is the operational phrase here.”

    Look at what happened to Scott Walker. All that goodwill from fighting the PSUs in WI up in smoke because his donors pulled his choke-chain on criminal migration.

  22. Ilion
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:32 am

    I shouldn’t have to say this, but — you (singular and plural) *do* know that I despise Trump, right?

    That said, is this not the most ironic thing given the context of this very thread? — “You get one warning. Keep talking like a butthurt Sturmtrumper, and you’ll be peddling your opinion somewhere else.“

  23. John the River
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:43 am

    As many before me have asked, “Just what does it take to get a neutral (if not conservative) internet texting site going?”.

  24. Fail Burton
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:45 am

    And let me add this stunner. That company was so hard up for workers they actually imported them from other distribution centers states away and also using temp agencies. They flew them in and put them in apts. 2 hours overtime and punishing sixth days were mandatory for months on end. We’re talking about $15 an hour in 2005-7 timeframe. The reg. fulltimers who made $24 an hour and not afraid of hard work (including me) were doing double shifts and 7th days where it was double time all day. We were making money hand over fist. Not one single woman ever showed during a time that company in a city with 2 million people were practically begging for help. Out of the entire regular crew of 600, only 6 were women, and they’d showed years before really tough standards were imposed. In essence all those 6 did was sit in 4-wheeled loaders all day at room temperature, the cushiest job there was. Once time standards entered, that was the end of even that tiny minority. That is clear evidence women in fact do make choices which have zero to do with misogyny and patriarchy.

  25. Ilion
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:51 am

    You mean “populist” in the sense of “demagogue”, right?

  26. DrGreatCham
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:55 am

    Exactly, now that it’s become apparent that Romney’s job was to squelch conservative candidates in 2012, not to win the general election.

  27. Quartermaster
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 10:19 am

    Since we have nail guns now, there isn’t a large need for nail technicians anymore.

  28. Quartermaster
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 10:19 am

    Heard anything back after the interview of a couple weeks back?

  29. trangbang68
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 10:27 am

    cuck=code word for Jews. Calling people morally corrupt while you slurp an amoral megalomaniac like Trump would be ironic if you had the intellectual capacity to grasp it.

  30. Daniel Freeman
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 10:46 am

    cuck=code word for Jews.

    That is just plain ignorant. If you want to understand the term as the people who use it do, then read the book.

  31. Daniel Freeman
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 10:50 am

    He’s been consistent about international trade and the national debt for over 27 years.

  32. Daniel Freeman
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 10:56 am

    Oh, so that’s what happened to Walker! I was confused. There he was, doing fine, solid Sessions-esque immigration policy, and poof. Gone for no apparent reason — but of course that policy was the reason.

    That’s why we’ve never been able to address it in a way that works for Main Street, because nobody who would do that can get the money to get elected.

  33. DrGreatCham
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 11:16 am

    Yep, that’s why Trump’s getting traction in the election. He’s the only one who can self-fund and denounce the negative effects of criminal migration without losing financial support.

    Whether or not he’ll actually DO anything about it is a different question. I fear for the Conservative Tree House folks if they get their wish and see Donald elected after ignoring his warnings that he’s a deal-maker, not a political hit-man.

  34. Fail Burton
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 11:44 am

    It’s such a poor pun I’m against it on principle, but I’ve never seen it as anti-Semitic. But neither have I ever seen anyone with brains use the term seriously.

  35. Wombat_socho
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 1:29 pm

    I don’t have a problem with what he’s saying. It’s how he’s saying it that pisses me off.

  36. Wombat_socho
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 1:30 pm

    You clearly weren’t here for the invasion of the “alt-right” racist retards who think everyone else in the conservative movement is a “cuckservative”. We don’t hold with that kind of horseshit talk around here, and if you have a problem with that, then you know where the door is.

  37. Wombat_socho
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 1:32 pm

    You were here a month or so back when we had all those “alt-right” racist fucks infesting the comments. They were pretty serious about it, but you may be right that they had no brains.

  38. Wombat_socho
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 1:35 pm

    Money. You need money to hire a staff and to pay for server space at Amazon or Google or some other host, and if you’re going to be hardcore and do your own hosting, that’s more money for capital assets and connection to the Intertubes. It’s not a trivial expense, and as Twitter has demonstrated, the revenue stream is iffy.

  39. Fail Burton
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 2:40 pm

    The only notable figure I’ve seen who is a straight up white supremacist is some Twitter guy who calls himself Ricky Vaughan after some kid in a movie. Who is really is I don’t know. I am concerned the Ralph Retort had an interview with him and that Mike Cernovich exchanges Tweets with him.

    I understand where some of those people are coming from but it’s not a solution. Just because we still have stuff like a Congressional Black Caucus and that black celebrities are openly supremacist narcissists is no reason to emulate them and declare open season on equal protection.

    The bottom line is if you call a man a dog often enough don’t be surprised when he starts barking. The temptation to start thinking white in today’s world is terrible. But that’s why this is all so toxic, isn’t it? If we don’t stick to our principles we become nothing, and yet risk becoming nothing if we do. If people would obey law and kick out illegals, that would be a start and perhaps stave of a future I’d rather not see where America becomes a Tower of Babels of La Razas.

  40. DeadMessenger
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 4:20 pm

    Yeah. They told me to get lost, in nicer words.

  41. DeadMessenger
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 4:23 pm

    Well, at least there were some things he’s been consistent about, other than the transparentness of the pursuit of his own enrichment.

  42. Quartermaster
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 6:36 pm

    There is a large number of people that use the ‘C’ word and have no idea what it means. They have seen it’s an insult and that’s the extent of their knowledge.

    It is not a code word for ‘Jew.’ It is a term that combines ‘cuckold’ with ‘conservative’ and designates certain people, such as Mitch ‘The Turtle’ McConnell who run as conservatives then betray their voters.

    It really is a nasty word, but the overwhelming majority of people have no idea what it means or how it originated. If you really like seeing the term misused, a goodly bit of the dark ilk (Vox Day’s commentariat) misuse it and take pride in that misuse. Here, it isn’t appreciated, and will get you banned.

    But, those who are banned can take heart. They can move over to Vox day’s place and carry on as usual, while whining about what the mean and evil Wombat did to them when they misbehaved.

  43. Quartermaster
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 6:37 pm

    Most of them had no idea what the term meant either. Most were simply on a band wagon and, like a 3 year old who has discovered a new word, just had to use it on everything.

  44. Quartermaster
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 6:42 pm

    I understand where you are coming from. I recall, quite well, I assure you, the evening that the 3 year olds who discovered a new word, and just had to use on everything, invaded. In this case, I think the term would apply to some of the men who put on CPAC (Norquist comes to mind here), or who are there (Morrissey is a good example). CPAC has, in many ways, been poisoned by PC, and letting idiots like McConnell speak to the group, also calls into question their bonifides.

    presently, CPAC is useful, but if the ACU stays on the path they are on, the ‘C’ word will apply to them as much as it does to McConnell or little Miss Lindsy Grahamnesty.

  45. Quartermaster
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 6:47 pm

    Sorry to hear that. A lady friend who had been the tribal Attorney General was forced to resign because the tribe was asking her to commit ethics violations and it took her two years to get back to work. She did contract and other independent work until she got on with a FedGov agency in a nearby small city.

    After nearly two years of hard prayer and me working to keep her chin up, God answered our prayers. She loves where she is now.

  46. trangbang68
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 7:10 pm

    I have no problem with you deleting my comment which apparently mis-defined the “C” word. Between the above mentioned alt-righter’s and some neo-fascist swine on PJMedia I have seen the term applied gratuitously to Jews.

  47. trangbang68
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 7:17 pm

    There are some neo-Nazi lunatic fringers on the Trump bandwagon that I have seen apply the term to Jews. Of course they probably blame their problems with erectile dysfunction on the Jews

  48. BFrito
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:13 pm

    Um, no. I’m for Cruz, and will vote for him when my state’s primary comes up. But if Trump wins the primaries (and actually makes it through the convention), I will definitely vote for him against either Hillary or Bernie.

  49. BFrito
    March 3rd, 2016 @ 9:21 pm

    If you recall, did you edit my post, deleting most of it (the more substantive section), or did I perhaps exhibit a little “user failure and not successfully upload my entire comment?

  50. Daniel Freeman
    March 4th, 2016 @ 12:19 am

    People who are just seven decades separated from the immigrant experience tend to identify more with immigrants than with natives, and to want to jam the door open no matter the consequences, in a very emotional way.