Update: This article has been updated to note Bluesky restored JD Vance's account.
Leftist anti-free speech haven Bluesky, which claims to prioritize a “pleasant experience” for users, banned the vice president of the United States almost immediately after he created his account.
On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance posted on X, “Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there!” Multiple accounts, including the New York Post, Axios reporter Marc Caputo, and Libs of TikTok, subsequently reported that Vance was suspended on the platform only about “12” to “20 minutes” after he launched his account. MRC confirmed the account has been restored as of Thursday morning.
”Vice President Vance's account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past," Bluesky told Newsweek. "The account was quickly restored and verified so people can easily confirm its authenticity.”
Vance appears to have suspected he might be suspended quickly, because his original X post announcement included screenshots of his first thread on Bluesky. “Hello, Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you,” he had written.
The vice president included a screenshot highlighting a recent concurring opinion in the decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold Tennessee’s ban on harmful “transgender” procedures for minors. “I found Justice Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth.”
Vance’s thread ended, “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?” Bluesky censors certainly made their opinion known quickly, shutting down the debate before it even started.
Back in November, Bluesky Safety, the platform’s censorship team, openly boasted about how it had to “dial” its content moderation team up to “max capacity” because of a huge flood of flagging and complaints from users. They urged users to help the platform by reporting even more “spam, scam, and trolling activity,” which the platform could then censor.
Bluesky has also become such an echo chamber for leftist grievances and constant censorship demands that even one of its strongest defenders, billionaire Mark Cuban, recently complained about it.
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