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This is a list of Twitter users whose accounts have been censored by Twitter. Some have been banned permanently while others have been suspended or "shadowbanned" temporarily. Other Twitter users have been censored in other ways.

These lists are organized in reverse chronological order from the date of the censorship takedown.

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In March 2018, right-wing site Morgoth's Review had its account permanently banned.

On February 20, 2018, white nationalist Jared Taylor and his American Renaissance organization sued Twitter in San Francisco Superior Court for having banned their accounts for political reasons.[1]

On February 13, 2018, Twitter permanently banned US Congressional candidate Paul Nehlen for posting an image where multiracial royal fiancee Meghan Markle's photo was blended with a reconstruction of an ancient Briton, who had been depicted with very dark skin for allegedly left-wing political reasons. The tweet was considered unacceptable, as the image might depict non-Asian minorities in a mocking or negative way, while Nehlen had already been condemned by the Southern Poverty Law Center for encouraging white racial pride.[2]

Godfrey Elfwick was banned on July 19, 2017, for "participating in targeted abuse"[3], with the admonition that "Your account will not be restored. Thanks, Twitter".

Ricky Vaughn was banned on October 7, 2016, for "violating the Twitter Rules", specifically the "rules around participating in targeted abuse."[4]

Milo Yiannopoulos was banned for "inciting abuse" against Leslie Jones, an actress who starred in the Ghostbusters reboot on July 19, 2016.[5][6]

Pax Dickinson's anonymous account "The Duck" (@jokeocracy) was permanently banned on January 26, 2016 after a series of jokes aimed at several journalists and left-wing activists that were determined to violate Twitter's harassment rules.[7]

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In late 2017, Twitter suspended or terminated multiple accounts of well-known white nationalists after imposing new rules against this type of content. The group Britain First, which documents and protests instances of Muslim group and individual violence in the UK, was banned by Twitter after a post from one of the three blocked accounts was retweeted by President Trump. The accounts of group leaders Jayda Fransen and Paul Golding were also suspended.[8][9]

Rose McGowan's twitter account was suspended on Oct 11, 2017 for 12 hours allegedly related to her tweets about Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct.[10][11]

Pax Dickinson was suspended on November 15, 2016.

Nick Land's @Outsideness account, a.k.a. Xenosystems, a.k.a. the "Outside In" blog, was reportedly disabled in mid February 2017. It was restored after he made a blog post about the matter. [12]

Hunter Avallone's Twitter account was suspended on March 7, 2017. [13]

The account @EastwoodUSA - mistaken for but reportedly not actually the account of Clint Eastwood - was suspended on November 9, 2016 shortly after tweeting "Thank you America, I don't have long left to live but now I know the last few years will be great, I can't thank you enough #PresidentTrump" [14] At the same time, Morgan Eastwood, Clint Eastwood's daughter is quoted as claiming that the account was not operated by Clint Eastwood:

STOP POSING AS MY DAD EVERYONE KNOWS HE WOULD NOT KNOW HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA ... Everyone knows this isn’t really his account. I would know. — Morgan Eastwood, [14]

Glenn Reynolds, professor of law at the University of Tennessee, USA Today columnist, and blogger known as Instapundit, was suspended due to a September 21, 2016 tweet concerning rioters in Charlotte stopping, surrounding, and looting vehicles on the highway.[17]

The popular Vladimir Putin parody account @DarthPutinKGB was suspended on May 31, 2016 but reactivated a day later.[18]

Journalist Robert Stacy McCain's account @rsmccain was suspended on February 19, 2016 without explanation,[19] prompting the creation of the hashtag #FreeStacy.[20]

Charles C Johnson was banned on May 24, 2015 for violating Twitter rules “around participating in targeted abuse” [21] by inviting his Twitter followers to fund him "taking out" DeRay Mckesson, co-founder of the policy platform Campaign Zero and proponent of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Anna Maria Perez was shadowbanned on October 26th, 2016. [22]

Malik Obama, brother of President Obama, was shadowbanned on October 20, 2016.[23]

@HdHammer865 was shadowbanned on October 2, 2016. He also received an email from Twitter notifying him that his account was now locked for "suspicious activities" on October 3, 2016.[24]

Scott Adams, the American cartoonist and creator of Dilbert, was shadowbanned on October 1, 2016.[25] He later made numerous additional claims that his account was being throttled[26] and asked his readers to provide screenshots of specific examples.[27]

Alt-Right writer Brett Stevens was shadowbanned on August 28, 2016.[28]

Dragon Award-winning science fiction author Brian Niemeier was shadowbanned on July 29, 2016.[29]

Donald Trump was shadowbanned by Twitter in July 2016.[30]

Vox Day was shadowbanned on February 14, 2016.[31]

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In late September, 2018, actor James Woods was locked out of his @RealJamesWoods account, prompting tweets and hashtags such as #FreeJamesWoods from other Twitter users.[32]

In November 2017, Twitter removed verification badges from white nationalists accounts including Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai commented that Twitter has a "double standard" that favors left-wing and penalizes right-wing users. However, US left-wing politician Diane Feinstein demanded that Twitter ban all political accounts that are too right-wing.[33]

Links to WikiLeaks (https://wikileaks.com) were declared "unsafe" on 12 October 2016.

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Links to the Vox Day blog Vox Popoli were declared "unsafe" by Twitter on September 21, 2016. Numerous people, including Day himself, had their accounts locked for tweeting or retweeting links to his blog.

[In July, 2020,] ...hackers gained access to many of the top accounts on the site, screenshots of the platform’s administration panel were released showing administrators have the ability to blacklist accounts from being searched for or being allowed to trend on the app. Several screenshots, allegedly of a “secret admin panel” were circulating last night, presumably made by the hackers themselves. Twitter seemed to confirm they were genuine when it began to suspend every account that shared the images.

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/twitter-is-so-busted-screenshots-leak-showing-massive-censorship-operation/ https://www.citizenfreepress.com/column-3/hackers-get-biden-obama-accounts/