Twitter blocks Marsha Blackburn's pro-life Senate campaign ad

Source: Washington Examiner | October 9, 2017 | Gabby Morrongiello

A digital ad by Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn was blocked by Twitter on Monday after the company claimed it contained an “inflammatory statement” related to abortion.

Blackburn used her two-minute ad to say she “fought Planned Parenthood, and we stopped the sale of baby body parts, thank God.”

An employee of Twitter told Blackburn’s team the ad would be blocked from appearing on the popular social media site unless Blackburn’s claim that she “stopped the sale of baby body parts” while serving in Congress is edited out. Boasting of shutting down that aspect of Planned Parenthood’s operation constituted “an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction,” Twitter told Blackburn’s campaign.

The campaign responded to Twitter’s decision on Monday afternoon by urging supporters of Blackburn to share the ad elsewhere on social media and join her “in standing up to Silicon Valley.”

An aide to Blackburn slammed the move by Twitter as an affront to free speech.

“Since when do they get to decide what political content is appropriate?” the aide told the Washington Examiner. “We hope to send them a message on how inappropriate this is and will ensure the pro-life community is aware of their actions.”

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