Only recently discovering a tweet that he posted then, Twitter has locked Woods out of a forum where his right-leaning messages have been followed by 1,730,000 people.
His delinquent tweet forwarded an image of giddily grinning guys promising to abstain from voting so that a woman's vote would be "worth more." Woods tweeted: "Pretty scary that there is a distinct possibility this could be real. Not likely, but in this day and age of absolute liberal insanity, it is at least possible."
Twitter told the actor that if he agreed to the deletion of this fake-news tweet — simple enough — it would let him tweet once again.
Woods refuses.
"Free speech is free speech — it's not [Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsey's version of free speech," Woods says. "The irony is, Twitter accused me of affecting the political process, when in fact their banning of me is the truly egregious interference. . . . If you want to kill my free speech, man up and slit my throat with a knife, don't smother me with a pillow."
There's lots more where that came from, but you get the idea. I don't, um, strictly agree with everything Woods says here. But I can only applaud the spirit of his refusal to submit to Twitter's arbitrary standards of acceptable speech.
Oh, and one other thing: somebody tell Twitter that parodies are inherently fake.
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Paul Jacob is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service.
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