Ashley St. Clair, a conservative commentator, said that Instagram had removed a clip she shared of Kyle Rittenhouse, kenosha’s teenager in trial for murdering his mother.
Big Tech and media went to great lengths in hiding the continuing trial against Kyle Rittenhouse. St. Clair stated that the censorship of her Instagram post was due to her posting it. “Instagram removed the video I posted of Kyle Rittenhouse crying,” StIt is. Clair explained in a Nov. 10 tweet. “It apparently violates their guidelines on *squints* violence & dangerous organizations. Give me a break!” She posted a purported screenshot from Instagram that read: “Your post has been removed” because “[i]t goes against our Community Guidelines on violence or dangerous organizations.”
Rittenhouse was “accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest over police brutality in Kenosha, last year,” Fox News reported.
St. Clair’s post in the screenshot showed imagery of Rittenhouse along with her own caption:
“I STAND WITH KYLE RITTENHOUSE. Kyle Rittenhouse has clearly been diagnosed with PTSD. The vile comments about him faking it are the same type of comments used to invalidate victims of secual assault & other traumas. It’s aggressor-enabling rhetoric.”
St. Clair has been a part of Instagram’s past battles.
St. Clair, who posted a photo of herself with a gun in the aftermath of hog hunting on Instagram Nov. 21st 2020 was subject to a crackdown by Instagram. Screenshots shared by St. Clair indicated that Instagram had removed her photo for alleged “coordinating harm or promoting crime” and “violence and incitement.” St. Clair’s instagram story reporting was then “removed for coordinating harm or promoting crime.” If that weren’t enough, she announced that “Instagram has banned me from doing livestreams as well.”
More recently, Big Tech has aggressively censored material that could be construed as sympathetic to Rittenhouse’s plight.
Facebook won’t allow users to search “Kyle Rittenhouse” in the search bar, and even Google is suppressing certain articles — the articles that show Rittenhouse’s side.
Crowder Makes You LouderSteven Crowder (host) and The Daily Wire both shared footage of Saturday’s riot, as well footage that was used in trials for separate YouTube channels. YouTube posted an age restriction notice prior to the video but did not censor it. The New York TimesOr The Washington PostYou can upload the same footage.
More than 45 entries have been added to the MRC CensorTrack website regarding censorship of Rittenhouse.
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