The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?

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Unexpectedly, and without explanation, my @rsmccain Twitter account was suspended Friday evening. Based on past experiences, my guess would be that this resulted from a complaint by one of the leading “social justice warriors” (SJWs) who have been at war with #GamerGate since August 2014. However, there was no reason stated for the suspension, and who knows? So I’ve switched to the @SexTroubleBook account I created to promote my book and meanwhile, friends who are fed up with Twitter’s bias and censorship started the #FreeStacy hashtag. This morning I shared some thoughts with a blogger friend who followed the #GamerGate saga:

As I have said for years: Being notorious is not the same as being famous, but it’s better than being anonymous.
That is to say, I don’t often complain about being hated or misunderstood. It comes with the territory. I started out in the news business as a $4.50-an-hour staff writer for a tiny weekly newspaper in Austell, Georgia. Most people have no idea what I did before I got involved in political journalism as an assistant national editor for The Washington Times in 1997, or even have any idea of the work I did there. The vast majority of people who read my blog or follow my Twitter feed have no knowledge of or interest in my personal “backstory.” It’s not about me. I am not the story. I am the guy telling the story, or I am the guy making jokes about the story. I understand that. But I think some people in the New Media era lose sight of this reality.
Politics is like football. It’s a team sport. Until I was in my mid-30s, I was a very partisan Democrat. Bill Clinton (who I voted for in 1992) cured me of my Democrat loyalty. During the 1990s, I began a rather deep autodidactic study of politics, history, economics, philosophy, etc. My politics are conservative, my economics are Austrian, my faith is Christian. It’s that simple — and certain people HATE me for it. But those people hate everybody who is not a Democrat. Fine. I understand that kind of hate, having once been a Democrat myself, but Democrats think of their personal hatred as “social justice.” And so I understand them better than they understand me.
However, it’s not about me. . . .

You can read the whole thing at The Ralph Retort.

This has been a crazy experience, but then again, my whole life has been a crazy experience, so I’m cool with it.

UPDATE: Linked by Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom, Legal Insurrection, Da Tech Guy Blog, Battleswarm, featured at Twitchy, Vox Day, now a Memeorandum thread and welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: Robby Soave quotes me accurately at Reason magazine, and they’ll probably never forgive him for it.

UPDATE III: Here’s a podcast I did today:

UPDATE IV: Linked by Donald Douglas at American Power and by Dean Esmay at Dean’s World. Arguably the most interesting post, however, is Ken White at Popehat explaining why he really, really dislikes me and yet . . .

Well, he hates me with every fiber of his being, which is OK. It is a free country, and nobody is required to like me, or even to pretend to like me. However, if Hillary is elected president and our nation descends into anarchy and civil war, and from this chaos emerges a military junta in need of a Supreme Leader as figurehead of New America, I’m available for the gig.

Under such a regime, Generalissimo McCain will not only be obeyed, but also respected and, in fact, it will be the duty of his people to admire and praise the Generalissimo.

Is such an outcome . . . likely? Probably not, but you can’t say it is impossible. You are my people, America, and should circumstances require me to rescue our beloved nation — a swift coup d’état, at a time of crisis — then you understand it will be my duty to answer the call. The Enemies of the People will tremble! And the enemies of the Generalissimo are also the Enemies of the People, obviously.

Blog wars? The Generalissimo will be merciful. It would ill behoove the junta to be settling personal grudges and besides, our manpower will be strained to its limits, rounding up Women’s Studies majors and feminist Tumblr bloggers, giving them a few days’ training, loading them onto C-130s and dropping them by parachute into places like Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, etc., as part of our effort to bring about world peace.

 




 

427 comments

  2. I pulled the plug on my own Twitter account twice. The dumber this country gets, the more it’s reflected in the intellectual toilet of social media. There is no bigger cesspool of lies, delusions, incivility and hypocrisy on Earth than Twitter. Except perhaps Congress.

  7. Ah, RSM. You’ve become a cause celebre.
    I’ve had it with Twitter dickishness (even though I barely used the platform). This was the final straw and I deleted my account.

    I will not reward fascism.

  11. Leftists understand two things. Political power and their own money. It’s the twin gods of Leftist politic.

    I still contend that Conservatives desperately need to create and advertise their own services and get away from having any relationship with Twitter or Facebook or anything packed with any form of Proggie influence.

    What we did to feckless newspapers, should follow the same rules on the internet.

  14. “The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?”

    This is no great mystery; your Twitter account was suspended because the Twitts are leftists, of the social justice wanker variety, and you are “scary” to the wankers.

  15. I declare Tuesday, March 1st as “Twitter Quitter” day.

    That’s the day you stop using Twitter and start using another service. You have that long to sign up for another service and inform your friends where they can find you after the 1st, because come March 1st, you will be done with Twitter.

    I signed up for Quitter today (quitter.se). Looks just like Twitter. If anyone has any other options, I’d love to hear them. But as of this moment, after March 1st I will only be there and done with Twitter.

  16. I am a fundamentalist; your statement reflects the “progressive” indoctrination that passed as your “education”, it does not reflect reality.

  19. Welcome to my world Stacy! Where progressive Lie Lie Lie and claim you said and did things you did not! Because criticism is abuse mockery is harassment and responding to their nonsense is “STALKING!”

    Apparently there is a unwritten law that no one is to disagree or point out the flaws in a progressives argument EVER because they might get frighten and feel bad.

  27. ReTweeted by the cowardly pseudonymous troll, #FreeKate supporter and all around hate investigator @NicoleBonnet1

  30. I have never associated myself with Twatter, fortunately I knew it was doomed from the start.

    More power to the people who do and are wrongfully censored.

    On a side note, I deleted my FB account way back when they changed the TOS & PS the first time.

  31. I admire your bravery, Mr. McCain. The Lord teaches us how thehumiliations and opprobrium bring us personal sorrow and His grace. In a weird way, I am thankful for the bad thieves who view their hatred as social justice, since they give us sorrow and His grace. “Pray for those who persecute you” (Mt 5:43).

  33. Interesting how Nicole choose to retweet Brett Kimberlin associate Ron Brynaert. Couple that with the fact she’s a follower of Brett Kimberlin on Twitter and the fact she has quoted Bill Schmalfeldt, it really makes you wonder.

  36. pseudonymous troll @NicoleBonnet1 is response for about a dozen or son #GunSense accounts being suspended. Their crime was measly disagreeing with her.

    Since Del Harvey is a lesbian SJW herself it is not surprising that Twitter is such totalitarian hellhole full of Orwellian newspeak.

  39. I agree w/what you’ve written, Tex.
    Great comment, thank you for taking time to post it!

    The only change I would make would be to add “love” into the first sentence.
    I’d add that b/c “understanding” and “obsessed w/acrueing” are completely separate states of being.
    Even though they aren’t mutually exclusive, they don’t necessarily require mutual existence, either.

  40. llion,
    I’ve often noticed the term “wanker”.
    Is this a reference to the Wankel rotary engine that Mazda was pushing for a while?

  43. There will be a significant shareholder or three who will ask the board of directors of Twitter, Inc. to explain why alienating a significant chunk of users is helping to build shareholder value. It is a publicly traded company after all.

  44. Screw Twitter. I’ve just deleted my account there, on account of the shadowbanning, and now this. Soon there will only be Kim Khardashian and her millions of chinese brokered paid for “followers” being monitored by the SJW thought police. Let the leftists gnaw on one anothers bones as the stock price craters.

    Keep up the good work, Mr McCain. The truth will out, always.

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