{"id":86262,"date":"2017-10-12T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86262"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:58:27","slug":"twitter-suspends-weinstein-accusers-account-the-boycott-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86262","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Suspends Weinstein Accuser&#8217;s Account, The Start Of A Boycott?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Twitter Suspends Account Of Weinstein Accuser Rose McGowan Prompting Calls For Boycott<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (11:30 am ET):<\/strong>\u00a0The public has predictably exploded with outrage following Twitter&#8217;s bizarre decision to freeze the account of actress Rose McGowan after she accused Ben Affleck of lying after he expressed remorse for groping a young actress live on MTV in 2003, and now a growing number of users are trying to organize a women&#8217;s boycott of the social media service in response. Several Twitter users have pointed out the company&#8217;s policies don&#8217;t seem to be fairly enforced across all users. Others have called on the service to restore McGowan&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Um, I read those tweets and they were no worse that Trump&#39;s and &quot;newsworthy&quot; too: McGowan Suspended From Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5bqGelaeN7\">https:\/\/t.co\/5bqGelaeN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karaswisher\/status\/918474835105165312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-10-12\/twitter-suspends-account-weinstein-accuser-rose-mcgowan\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-10-12\/twitter-suspends-account-weinstein-accuser-rose-mcgowan<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Suspends Account Of Weinstein Accuser Rose McGowan Prompting Calls For Boycott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}