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Hey everybody, Laura Loomer here, the Republican frontrunner candidate for Congress in Florida's 21st congressional district, which is home to President Trump and Mrs. Trump. | |
| As many of you know, I am the most banned woman in the world. | ||
| I am literally banned on every single social media site. | ||
| Payment processors like PayPal and Venmo and even GoFundMe have banned me. | ||
| I'm banned on Facebook and Twitter, Instagram, Uber Lyft, Uber Eats. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| I can't even order food. | ||
| The list goes on and on and on. | ||
| Even Chase Bank has temporarily shut down my online access to my bank account. | ||
| And as a candidate for Congress who has raised over a million dollars and, like I said, is the frontrunner, my campaign is still being denied access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and PayPal. | ||
| We are the only deplatformed campaign in the nation. | ||
| Up until this point, my campaign has found ways to work around that. | ||
| But today, a drastic escalation happened, and I'm making this video to document it so that you see that the censorship has moved from the big tech social media companies to the telecommunication companies themselves. | ||
| We use text campaigns to reach out to people because, like I said, I can't use social media. | ||
| And today, when I went to go approve my text campaign for today to make sure that there were no typos and that everything was set to go out to my supporters for my fundraising email, this is the message that came through on my phone. | ||
| So, just so that you understand what you're looking at, the message says potential threat detected. | ||
| And this is the link that somebody would receive if they got my text message that said, Hey, it's Laura Loomer. | ||
| Matt Gates just endorsed my campaign. | ||
| Check out what he said here. | ||
| And then they would click on a landing page that was sent to them in a text message, and it would take them to the page. | ||
| But the first thing that they see upon getting that is potential threat detected. | ||
| So if you get something on your phone that says potential threat detected, you're likely not going to want to click on it because you're going to be concerned about what that threat is, right? | ||
| So you can see. | ||
| So now I just want to show you all how the telecommunications companies, and this is Xfiniti, this is Xfinity that we're on right now. | ||
| You click on it, and it's supposed to go. | ||
| You saw it's supposed to go to my campaign page and it says we've blocked access. | ||
| So Xfinity is now blocking access to my campaign donation pages and my campaign website and they're calling it dangerous. | ||
| So again, I'm going to do this again for you to see right here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You see, I just opened up my text. | ||
| This is real. | ||
| This is happening. | ||
| This is not a hoax. | ||
| This is not a conspiracy. | ||
| I'm clicking on the link. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We have blocked access. | ||
| This site might compromise your device or contain dangerous content. | ||
| To avoid these risks, close the window and skip this site. | ||
| So I would love to know. | ||
| You know, Facebook not only banned me and labeled me a dangerous individual, but now it looks like Xfinity, which is not a social media company. | ||
| Xfinity Comcast is one of the largest internet providers in the country. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And in Palm Beach County, it's one of the only choices that you have. | ||
| In Palm Beach County, where I'm running for Congress, one of the only choices you have as a cable and internet provider is Xfinity Comcast. | ||
| And now Xfinity Comcast is blocking my campaign links, my donation pages, and my website to my constituency. | ||
| So this is an insane escalation. | ||
| Now conservatives are not only being targeted by the big tech social media companies, but also by the telecommunication firms, which proves that we need serious antitrust legislation in this country right now. |