#FreeSargon: Twitter Suspends Sargon Of Akkad After He Tweets EU Official About Europe’s Immigration Policies

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Twitter suspended the account of YouTuber Carl Benjamin, who goes by the name “Sargon of Akkad” on Friday, after he Tweeted an EU official with questions about Europe’s current immigration policies.

Sargon suggested he was suspended for sharing his criticism of Islam in a Tweet to the high representative to EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Fedrica Mogherini.

Mogherini tweeted, “#holocaustrememberance: A peaceful and diverse Europe it is everyone’s interest and responsibility.”

Sargon responded,“Hasn’t mass Islamic immigration to Europe drastically raised the odds of terror attacks, though?”

However, Sargon noted that Twitter has yet to give him a reason for the suspension.

“I have no idea why and no reason has been given so far,” Sargon said.

Sargon was conversing with We Are Change’s founder, Luke Rudkowski, when he was suspended.

No, WTF twitter police? I was just talking to @sargon_of_akkad on DM about something important, anyone know how else I can reach him?

Posted by Luke Z Rudkowski on Friday, January 27, 2017

Twitter has been a proponent, as of late, of banning some accounts it deems to have used “hate speech,” while ignoring others.

Suspending a user for proposing a question now, though, even if it is a question that no one wants to face, raised the question: Are we living in the paradigm of 1984? It was a fictional book, not an instruction manual for big social to follow to ban anyone they disagree with.

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Gab presents itself as an alternative to Twitter that allows “Free Speech for everyone.”

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