Two of the progressive Twitter users advocating digital vigilantism in response to the oh-so-grave injustice of unmuzzled conservatives are @jmcaninch68 and @subculturestuff, active promoters of the Left’s pet War on Women meme. They are targeting conservatives who dared to participate in the United Against the War on Women hashtag (#UAWOW).
https://twitter.com/#!/jmcaninch68/status/196635619143847936
https://twitter.com/#!/jmcaninch68/status/196944878003945472
https://twitter.com/#!/subculturestuff/status/194795828307693568
They want to end Rush Limbaugh’s supposed War on Women by disappearing his supporters? No shock that this sort of silencing tactic is coming from Stop Rush (read: Media Matters) flunkies. Conservatives, of course, took notice:
https://twitter.com/#!/sistertoldjah/status/196394441144152066
https://twitter.com/#!/sistertoldjah/status/196395580359061504
https://twitter.com/#!/OklahomaJoy/status/196783070735638528
If you are a conservative who's used the #UAWOW tag, liberals have targeted you for #twittergulag.
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) April 30, 2012
Other progressive Twitter users are reportedly getting in on the muzzling action:
https://twitter.com/#!/TeriChristoph/status/196934555092008961
https://twitter.com/#!/TeriChristoph/status/196936069630005248
https://twitter.com/#!/grumpy_elephant/status/196952933013782528
Some liberals called for blocking or referred to conservative tweets as spam, but didn’t explicitly direct the War on Women crowd to use the flag-spam method of purging conservatives.
https://twitter.com/#!/Lizardoid/status/196299306695790593
https://twitter.com/#!/mjbyars/status/196239977267462145
https://twitter.com/#!/sistertoldjah/status/196842016313839617
https://twitter.com/#!/scATX/status/196305920886706178
While it is difficult to verify with certainty that specific blocked accounts are also being reported for spam, it’s clear that this is part of the Left’s larger strategy to take down online conservatives:
https://twitter.com/#!/michellemalkin/status/196969282398203904
Is that how the Twitter powers-that-be want to play this?
Hat tips to Michael Moser and Teri Christoph.
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