Some deactivated their own accounts in solidarity. His name was trending within hours of his removal. The move only amplified Kelly’s presence, as his followers began hash-tagging “free Jesse Kelly” and changing their avatars in support. In handing down the death sentence for Twitter simultaneously created a martyr and shot themselves in the foot. Offensive and controversial comments, most definitely, but nothing that I would call worthy of capitol Twitter punishment. I’ve never seen a directed threat or anything ban-worthy. I don’t follow him, but enough people do that his tweets make their way into my timeline every day. It is not clear what exactly caused Twitter to ban Kelly. You can imagine both the weeping and the gnashing of teeth when his fans heard that Twitter had banned his account. Women want him and men want to be him, as they say.
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His Twitter account, chock full of decidedly hawkish, Alpha He-Man takes, amassed something like 80,000 followers. With opinions like these (and him being like 7 feet tall), he is a lightning rod.
He has a penchant for violence-as-metaphor, once imagining himself on a battlefield taking the scalps of his liberal enemies. He is known for his suggestion that the United States should amicably break up, with a new civil war the only other option. I wrote about him when he and I had a short debate on Twitter and one of his followers infested my inbox with vile insults and bad grammar. He has appeared on Fox News and has his own radio show. To get you up to speed: Jesse is a Marine combat vet, former Congressional candidate, and bombastic right-wing commentator. You may not even know who Jesse Kelly is, unless maybe you recall my piece about him a few months back. If you are not on Twitter, none of this will be of any importance to you. Jesse Kelly has been banned from Twitter.
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