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Sean Plunket founded The Platform in 2021.
Announcer and founder of online news site The Platform Sean Plunket has suspended his Twitter account.
A post on The Platform’s Twitter account on Monday afternoon said Plunket was “permanently suspended”, with Plunket describing the move as “Another victory for free speech” on his own Facebook page
Screenshots circulating online show that the suspension is apparently due to privacy violations and the “hateful conduct” rule.
Plunket said he had no idea why he was suspended. “I know as much as anyone,” he said Stuff.
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He said it was likely prompted by complaints from the “anti-women’s brigade” which had come into force last week to protest planned events in Auckland and Wellington by anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Position Parker.
The platform’s Sean Plunket was suspended from Twitter on Monday.
Plunket described the protests as “mob rule” and the resulting cancellation of Parker’s “a victory for canceling culture and bullies in the trans and gay communities.
“It was not I who aroused the hysteria about Nazis… given the crowing of the anti-women brigade [online] I assume they complained,’ he said.