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Sorry, blocking the interstate is dangerous, and trapping people in their cars is a threat. Driving on is self-preservation, especially when we’ve had mobs destroying property and injuring and killing people. But if Twitter doesn’t like me, I’m happy to stop providing them with free content.



Was just on Hugh Hewitt talking about this. Since Twitter won’t let me respond to — or even see — my critics, let me expand here.



I’ve always been a supporter of free speech and peaceful protest. I fully support people protesting police actions, and I’ve been writing in support of greater accountability for police for years.



But riots aren’t peaceful protest. And blocking interstates and trapping people in their cars is not peaceful protest — it’s threatening and dangerous, especially against the background of people rioting, cops being injured, civilian-on-civilian shootings, and so on. I wouldn’t actually aim for people blocking the road, but I wouldn’t stop because I’d fear for my safety, as I think any reasonable person would.



“Run them down” perhaps didn’t capture this fully, but it’s Twitter, where character limits stand in the way of nuance.



Meanwhile, regarding Twitter: I don’t even know that this is why I was suspended, as I’ve heard nothing from Twitter at all. They tell users and investors that they don’t censor, but they seem awfully quick to suspend people on one side of the debate and, as people over at Twitchy note, awfully tolerant of outright threats on the other.



Twitter can do without me, as I can certainly do without Twitter.

If you go to the @instapundit account, this is what you see:This is getting crazy. Twitter is blocking access to my blog, banning Milo, suspending Instapundit... it appears the thought police at Twitter are openly declaring war on the social media Right.UPDATE: This was Twitter's excuse:UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds responds:UPDATE: Apparently Twitter has reconsidered and unsuspended Glenn. For now.Meanwhile, GabTechNews warns that YouTube has gone the Reddit route , almost precisely as spelled out by QuQu of GGRevolt.I think, at this point, we are going to have to assume that it is only a matter of time before Blogger is similarly converged and prepare accordingly. I've always had several backups running, of course, so I doubt much of an interruption will be necessary, but if Blogger goes the way of Goodreads, Wikipedia, Facebook, and now Twitter and YouTube, check in at either Gab or Castalia House to find the new location.

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