Instagram Permanently Suspends Veteran-Owned Business for Criticizing NFL Kneelers
Instagram Permanently Suspends Veteran-Owned Business for
Criticizing NFL Kneelers
NFL players kneeling during the national anthem compared
to Navy SEALs training.AP/ Marcio Jose Sanchez and Denis Poroy
27 Aug 2018
Project War Path, a clothing company owned by Navy SEALs
and Army Special Forces combat veterans, has been permanently suspended from
Facebook’s Instagram platform for “hate speech” after criticizing NFL players
who kneel during the national anthem.
After Project War Path made a post which referred to NFL
players who kneel during the national anthem as “overpaid turds,” Instagram
blacklisted the company’s account for “hate speech.”
The full post includes a picture of NFL players kneeling
on ground held up by soldiers — many of whom appear to be wounded or dead and
surrounded by a sea of blood — and reads, “This sums it up, Veteran’s defend
our freedom and keep us safe. Meanwhile overpaid turds throw a leather ball
around in a overpriced stadium and shit on all the men and women who have been
killed defending our country. #ProjectWarPath #BoycottNFL #NFL #VFW
#VeteransofForeignWars”
The same post was made on Twitter without being removed.
Project War Path @ProjectWarPath
This sums it up,
Veteran's defend our freedom and keep us safe. Meanwhile overpaid turds throw a
leather ball around in a overpriced stadium and shit on all the men and women
who have been killed defending our country. #ProjectWarPath #BoycottNFL #NFL
#VFW #VeteransofForeignWars
7:00 AM - Aug 21, 2018
“Lately I have been posting about the NFL players
kneeling. I was Navy SEAL for ten years, I served multiple tours in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Africa from 2001 through 2014,” declared Navy SEAL veteran Tej
Gill, one of Project War Path’s owners, to Breitbart News. “I have lost a lot
of my close friends/teammates during the war. NFL Players kneeling really hits
home with me and my teammates, I think it’s disgusting, an insult to all
veterans, Americans, and especially families of veterans that have been killed
and wounded during war.”
“I tried to reinstate my account, the form I filled out
said my account was permanently suspended for hate speech,” he continued. “I
have not heard anything back from Instagram since.”
Gill went on to claim that he thinks the suspension is
“part of a very aggressive censorship operation that is being conducted by
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the mainstream media,” and although
he appealed the suspension, the Project War Path account is still suspended.
Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, has previously
suspended conservatives, including British citizen journalist Tommy Robinson,
author Lauren Southern, and conservative comedy group Toughen Up America.
In May, Donald Trump Jr. also accused Instagram of
shadowbanning him.
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