(CP) – A feminist journalist who was permanently booted from Twitter for tweeting such things as “men aren’t women” and referring to a biological male as “him” is suing the social media giant for unfair censorship. Meghan Murphy, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based founder and editor of Feminist Current announced this week in a press release that she is taking this action because of Twitter’s
“unconscionable” terms of service, and its false advertising of itself as a free speech platform. Under Twitter’s recently-instituted rules — which were not disclosed to users when she was kicked off — the social media company is allowed to ban people for practically any reason.Murphy’s account was shut down in late November after she referred to a man, Jonathan Yaniv, as “him.” Yaniv, a trans-identified male who still uses his own masculine name, READ MORE
