This is Nightline with your host, Ted Koppel:
Good evening. Once again, Joe Deal, known on Twitter as Deplorable Joe Deal, has been locked out of his X account after opining about psychotic illegal alien and murderer Ramon Rivera, who stabbed three people to death in New York City this week.
In the 'offending' tweet, Deal said that the killer should be sent to The Electric Chair. Apparently, he violated Twitter/X's capricious and rediculous rules of conduct regarding violent or hateful speech. There seems to be someone at Twitter with a HARD-ON for mass killers. Deplorable Joe Deal was locked out of his account immediately.
The 'offending' tweet:
@charliekirk11 Send ramon to The Electric Chair and prosecute the gov't officials who let him in the country for aiding and abetting.
Deal filed an appeal, which was rejected. Deal will remain in The Twitter Gulag for 6 days and 23 hours. He MAY view his timeline and direct-message, but he cannot tweet, or retweet, or 'like' a tweet.
Back to Joe Deal and Twitter's capricious and rediculous rules. Apparently, the official at Twitter behind the latest suspension thinks or believes that Mr. Deal should be 'jailed' for opining that a violent killer recieve the DEATH PENALTY FOR COMMITTING BRUTAL CRIME(S).
Apparently, somebody AT TWITTER finds the idea of sending psychotic murderers to the electric chair 'shocking' or forbidden', but capital punishment has been a traditional punishment for murderers since the beginning of human history.
IT'S NOT 'HATEFUL' OR 'VIOLENT'. IT'S CONSIDERED 'JUSTICE'.
We here at Nightline have a question for Twitter./X. What in heaven's name is wrong with YOU PEOPLE? We here at Nightline find Mr. Deal's tweet perfectly reasonable. He said NOTHING WRONG.
It's Day 2, and Deplorable Joe Deal remains locked out inside Twitter's speech gulag. It is Day 2, and his Twitter Account is being held hostage.
From everyone here at Nightline, I am Ted Koppel. Goodnight.