Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times,
Twitter late Monday suspended the account of MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell on its platform.
Users were faced with an error message, “You’re trying to follow user that doesn’t exist,” before the account page simply said that Lindell’s account has been suspended for having violated Twitter rules.
Lindell’s personal Twitter account had over half a million followers before being suspended.
The Twitter account of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell just moments after it was suspended. (Twitter/realMikeLindell/Screenshot)
The Twitter account of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell just moments after it was suspended. (Twitter/realMikeLindell/Screenshot)
Lindell repeatedly violated the company’s civic integrity policy, due to which he was suspended, according to a Twitter spokesperson. The policy says, in part: “You may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes. This includes posting or sharing content that may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a civic process. In addition, we may label and reduce the visibility of Tweets containing false or misleading information about civic processes in order to provide additional context.”
“The public conversation occurring on Twitter is never more important than during elections and other civic events. Any attempts to undermine the integrity of our service is antithetical to our fundamental rights and undermines the core tenets of freedom of expression, the value upon which our company is based.”
Lindell did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times.
A supporter of former President Donald Trump, Lindell was advocating for election integrity amid allegations of widespread voting irregularities and election fraud in the aftermath of the November 2020 general election, which put him under the media spotlight. Lindell frequently posted political commentary that sometimes questioned the results of the election.
The suspension of Lindell’s Twitter account is the latest in actions taken against Trump and his supporters since the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol that resulted violence and a breach of the building.
Trump had repeatedly called for peace and condemned the violence that took place. Despite this, he was banned from Twitter and other social media platforms, including Twitter, and cut off by some banks, while some of his supporters have also been banned by Twitter and have been fired by employers.
Lindell recently made media headlines after having visited the White House to meet with Trump and was spotted holding some mysterious notes that, in part, appeared to refer to “martial law.” It was unclear what the notes were about. Lindell told The Epoch Times that the notes were not official and he was helping deliver them from a lawyer who said it was a suggestion for Trump.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell waits outside the West Wing of the White House before entering in Washington, on Jan. 15, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Lindell is known for his American dream story of an ex-cocaine addict turning his life around and running a successful business, MyPillow.
Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s, and Wayfair announced they would no longer carry products from MyPillow. Lindell said the actions came after groups such as Sleeping Giants pushed companies to stop doing business with him.
Bed Bath & Beyond told The Epoch Times via email that their decision to stop carrying MyPillow was “data-driven and customer-inspired.”
Sleeping Giants, a leftist activist group, shared the news on Twitter about the companies’ decision to discontinue stocking Lindell’s products. The group accused Lindell of having encouraged the breach of the Capitol by calling for election integrity. Sleeping Giants has ongoing campaigns to pressure companies to shun conservative and right-leaning entities. It also shared the news of Lindell’s suspension from Twitter late on Monday.
“These are groups that were hired to attack and crush my companies to cancel MyPillow out. And they’re attacking these people, like Bed Bath & Beyond,” Lindell told NTD News last week. “They succumb to the pressure. And you know, that’s their choice. But you know what, this is the time we all have to stand up against this.”
“This is the time we have to make a stand. We have to make a stand and not back down to media and cancel culture,” he said. “We can’t live in fear this time. We got to all stand together. And I’m not talking politics. I’m talking people.”
Lindell is also facing possible litigation from Dominion Voting Systems over his accusations that their machines and software contributed to election fraud in the general election. According to reports, Dominion sent a letter to Lindell last month warning of an “imminent” defamation lawsuit and telling Lindell to stop “making defamatory claims against Dominion.”
Lindell said he hopes Dominion will sue him so that he can present evidence.
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Question: In view of the rampant censorship described in this article, why does TBP still have links to Twitter and Facebook?
That is a perfect example of why the Right always loses. The left plays to win, the right doesn’t.
Hypocritical much?
Admin?
How do you suggest the information get shared?
Parler?
meat space – every click on line is a bread crumb –
TBP doesn’t need or depend on Twitter. There are still people on Twitter who have great insights. I follow them and share their great insights on TBP. It’s that simple.
Stay the course. Thanks Admin for doing so.
you having an account is one thing, providing links to those data extraction sites are a different story, encouraging others to remain subjects. And the affiliate link? more intel gathering, but for the other team….there is no straddling the fence.
There are a number of reasons to maintain a twitface fakebook accts. One is that you can monitor what they are doing as they openly brag about it and they often divulge their plans. Two is if you post random junk it makes refining their algorithms that much more difficult. Its like throwing sand in the gear box, it may not cripple them but it sure doesn’t help either. Having an account doesn’t mean you have to be nice.
That’s not what Grumpy asked about.
I realize he was asking about why TBP maintained links to the enemy. for which Amin gave his answer. I just gave people other reasons to maintain their accounts as well…
The alternatives to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook seem to me to be built on the assumption that users will be a small subset of people – and lean right. They seem designed to quickly monetize their little club of users. I don’t have ANY social media accounts, but I can look at the Twitter feeds of people who are interesting. I can watch videos on YouTube with joining it. I think that to see stuff on Gab, you have to join. I ain’t joining shit. Look at all of those Parler users whose personal info – including email addresses – was hacked a couple weeks ago.
According to Dan Bongino Parlour wasn’t hacked, no data loses.
I hope everyone buys one of these pillows now and prepares for the biggest pillow fight ever.
Ghost….I know its in jest but never bring a pillow to a gun fight. Always bring your favorite handgun and preferably in a caliber that begins with a 4…….
She was talking about smothering Kammie in her sleep…Joe will be gone on his own soon…
More pillows for congress…
In the old gangster movies a pillow was used as a makeshift pistol silencer.
Maybe Lindell should market them that way.
That probably works less well than smothering someone with a pillow. I tried that. An honest effort in the army to smother my roommate to death. It did not work. I didn’t even wake that lazy pos up.
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As has been pointed out many times here before, it is important to note the language used.
Notice it says “… user that doesn’t exist.”
Not account or page, user.
He has become a non-entity in their world.
and a ‘user’ not a community member but a dehumanized user.
Wonder how Parler is coming along?
Check yourself:
I heard their landing page is now hosted in Russia.
What the reason(s) are that they can’t get their main services started up again (money, hardware, bandwidth,…), I don’t know.
Hosting services in the US won’t allow them accounts. SO they had to go international.
Likely coming down the pipe will be ICANN not giving IP’s to noncompliant companies or businesses that question the communist narratives.
Not many appreciate the potential damage caused by Obama surrendering ICANN.
Rich conservatives are going to have to spend $$ to fight rich liberals by funding conservative action groups.
Is it OK to say the USA now has domestic enemies? just asking for opinions.
If we have domestic terrorists’, what are they enemies of ?
I am trying to determine if the logic is correct that may establish a basis for stating we are at war (internally).
Congratulations Mike!!
Twtr-fb-amzn avoid these and anyone who uses them.
Don’t dump the ‘social media’ account use them against the left. Fill your accounts with rubbish mis-information. Post a picture of a cabbage naming it as you. Screws with their algorithms. Definitely do not use Scamazon or any Alphabet ‘services’ like google, gmail etc… Stop buying apple phones and find alternatives like Blackberry or others.
Its a war… learn to fight them online before it goes kenetic.
I’m anti-Twitter and FB, anti-censorship – but this guy is a nutjob. What did he think he was accomplishing by standing outside the WH with exposed “papers from an attorney” that mentioned “martial law,” and holding them in a way that the media could blow up the photos to see? What kind of statement did he think he was making?
Trump was never going to declare martial law. He was never going to invoke the Insurrection Act, 2018 “election” E.O., or declassify the documents he bitched and moaned on Twitter about Barr not declassifying. Surely Lindell, a successful multi-millionaire businessman, wasn’t naive enough to believe Trump was going to do something substantive, right?
I really believe Lindell and Lin Wood are trying so hard to have their “Jesus Moment.” They’re getting off on it. They want to be nailed to the cross (figuratively, but these types of people often have a tendency to make the figurative literal, so who knows…) They want to be public martyrs.
They – and Giuliani, albeit in a different way – are acting like complete kooks and don’t realize that this is a propaganda and public relations war and the left/Democrats are the masters of it.
So the alternative is to simply roll over and obey your new masters?!?!?
Coward… at least they are willing to but everything on the line and have more to lose than you ever will. If you run according to the communists propaganda then you’ll always be running in circles, time to say who gives a rats hiney about what the left says and bulldoze them out of the way.
“….time to say who gives a rats hiney about what the left says and bulldoze them out of the way.”
Let’s see, the Cabal has stolen the election, deleted 70,000 Twitter accounts in the biggest act of political censorship we have ever seen, downloaded into the mush-brains of millions of Zombie-slaves living in ‘murica the lie that the Capitol demonstration was a violent attempt to overthrow the government, and ramped up their demonization of kulak Whites 1,000 fold.
Yeah, you’re sure showing them who’s boss! Keep on bulldozin’, Brian, you’re clearly in it to win it!
Some people might say an inability to recognize how the media is easily weaponized against us guarantees we will inevitably lose.
But nevermind, those people are cowards who are just rolling over to obey (!?!?!?)
Well I’m not running away, hiding or simply obeying anything the left throws out there. If I were wealthy I too would be spending the money to fight these communists as I put MY money where my mouth is and I do what I encourage others to do as well.
If you look at any of my other posts you’ll see that, not only I but many others, have been saying all along its an information war right now. Learn to fight it and use it against the communists.
I don’t hide behind anon and will defend my positions unlike the naysayers that hide and spew their ‘we’ll get them next time boyz’ mantras. If more people actually GOT involved in resisting these communist dirtballs it would be a bulldozing. But then I wouldn’t expect an anon to have the courage to carry thru on much of anything.
“Well I’m not running away, hiding or simply obeying anything the left throws out there”
Oh, so you went to the Capitol demonstration on January 6th! I guess you were at Charlottesville as well? It’s so refreshing to finally meet someone from the front lines.
“If I were wealthy I too would be spending the money to fight these communists as I put MY money where my mouth is and I do what I encourage others to do as well.”
In-deed! Say, how’s the campaign to outspend the Communists and win through the court system going? SCOTUS is reviewing the evidence of fraudulent elections on the Wealthy Patriot dime, huh?
“I don’t hide behind anon and will defend my positions unlike the naysayers that hide and spew their ‘we’ll get them next time boyz’ mantras.”
No, you hide behind the entirely generic name of ‘Brian’ instead. Well done! Defending your position is an admirable trait, especially when your position can be shown to be making headway anywhere on the planet.
“If more people actually GOT involved in resisting these communist dirtballs it would be a bulldozing. ”
Getting involved by withdrawing support for the platforms they are using to silence and demonize us, you mean? Like Twitter? Facebook? Google? No, we should not do that?
“But then I wouldn’t expect an anon to have the courage to carry thru on much of anything.”
Oh ‘Brian’! Your fearlessness has smitten me down with shame! How can I ever hold my head up in public again!? I will go and create the username ‘John J. Doe’ right now, ‘Brian’!
I actually do go out to protest rallies held on the streets in the nearby cities of penticton and kelowna. And my name is brian. Not an anon coward that hasn’t the cohona’s to do much of anything but hide like a panty waist and complain about those that are making a difference.
Certainly are a brave one… and sooo smart too. Maybe you should abandon posting here because you will draw the attention of an evil movie character and put yourself in danger. Best to hide and be very very quiet.
“I actually do go out to protest rallies held on the streets in the nearby cities of penticton and kelowna. And my name is brian.”
Oh, your name is Brian? Good thing there aren’t a million more with the same name, otherwise your claim that calling yourself ‘Brian’ online is some unique and courageous identifier would make you look like an idiot.
“Not an anon coward that hasn’t the cohona’s to do much of anything but hide like a panty waist and complain about those that are making a difference.”
Making a difference. hahahahaha. Right.
“Maybe you should abandon posting here because you will draw the attention of an evil movie character and put yourself in danger. Best to hide and be very very quiet.”
The debate was whether or not it would be better to stop using the enemies’ platforms, as it is simply feeding the beast that is killing us. It’s not about being afraid or trying to hide.
Do try to keep up, Brian!
Substitute “kahal” for “cabal” and give it some thought.
There’s no power in martyrdom, Brian – despite what you learned in Sunday School.
The powerful know when to hold em, know when to fold em – you know the rest of the lyrics. Retreating and using guile in the face of an overwhelmingly powerful enemy isn’t being a “coward,” it’s being smart, which you obviously aren’t.
When you’ve been cleared from the field by your enemy, you’re no longer in the game.- thus you’ll never have a chance to win.
How are the Q prophecies doing?
Never read any Q rubbish. Hiding and hoping the communists will walk by you is about as naïve as it gets. You obviously miss a lot of whats been said, some have money to fight these evil dirtballs. There are many ways and means of fighting and resisting, using their own tools against them. Stated repeatedly encouraging people to not close social media accounts but to use them to throw sand in the gears so to speak. Yet you seem to be able to criticize those risking much while you risk what??? Other than hiding and obeying your new masters what are your battle plans?? Tell us all just how smart you are.
By all means you are certainly entitled to strategically hide and make your appearances to take some shots at some of the good guys, then go back to hiding effectively again.
My ‘Battle Plan’ is to avoid being near foolish people like you, who will draw the Eye of Sauron onto me and my position in the process of getting themselves killed.
Really… Well personally I’d rather be on the battlefield at the gates of Mordor and die with principles than the coward dressing up as a woman and trying to hide in the dark corners. Only coming out as a brave warrior when theres no danger to themselves and taking pot shots at those willing to risk anything.
To each their own, enjoy your dark little corner.
A warrior on the battlefield, eh? Because you keep using the enemies’ platforms.
Well, well, well…there’s one born every minute, P.T.Barnum said. Clearly he underestimated by an order of magnitude. Please film the encounter when the agents of Sauron come to visit your house. You know, to inspire the shadow lurkers with your strategies and wiles!
oh look.. a brave anon… lol. boo…
You’re an idiot, ‘brian’.
What’s wrong with being a nut job? Who the fuck wants a world without nut jobs? A guy can’t sell pillows because he’s weird?
I found myself saying “YES!!” to every sentence you wrote.
Lindell IS a nutjob …. and his pillows are shitty, imho.
That being said, I hate what Twitter has done to him, and to millions of others. I wish they would be destroyed. But, because people like Admin won’t stop using it, and people like ME still click on the links when they are posted (which, I think, makes me a hypocrite), it just won’t happen.
I like his pillow and I consider myself a pillow enthusiast. I wouldn’t have even tried it if it wasn’t a gift.
However, I really never look to former crackheads for wisdom or knowledge, but I might buy a pillow from him.
Twitter should be sued for slander for that statement in the screenshot above.
It is entirely untrue and harms that the pillow fellow’s reputation.
You are trying to follow a user that does not exist.
Fuck @jack and the diseased donkey he rode in on….
It should read
either
You are trying to follow an account that does not exist.
or
You are trying to follow a person that does not have an account on this platform
or better yet
You are trying to follow a man that is tired of getting fucked around by @jack the twit.
or even better yet
Why are you following @jack who is an insufferable twat, and yeah,
spends his days alone in his bunker sucking on George Soro’s diseased donkey dick!
When the sort of people that run Sleeping Giant (and all the rest of the poisonous crew who carry out the instructions of the powers-that-be) are afraid that their children have been abducted and are under horrible torment, and they worry that their home has been burned down, along with the cat, dog and spouse, we will be making some progress. Until then, it is nothing but bitching.
Lindell is you. The people seeking his destruction won’t stop until they are stopped, and not by boycotts, media campaigns or lawsuits. It is a war, but only one side is fighting it. No wonder they are winning.
I have to remind myself to buy Goya products as well.
I went out and bought 8 pillows for family and friends……If everybody does the same or similar Mike will be fine.
Right. Because money is the only meaningful way to measure life.
No, because it helps fund the good guys willing to spend millions to battle these communists in court. Fund the good guys, or fund the communists like Alphabet and scamazon.
Yes, battling the Communists in court is what saved us all from gay marriage, tranny restrooms, abortion, pornography, and abortion.
Oh wait……
I have pillows, thanks, but that’s not the point. I don’t have F’book, Twit, Insta or any of that crap. At least the pillow guy has balls. God bless ‘im and good luck! The USA needs some kind of luck a la this guy. Ain’t holdin’ my breath.
When can we collectively stop caring about a social media platform we don’t use and don’t need?
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
There is always a justifiable reason to continue to draw citizens to bluebird and f for data extraction and thought manipulation or the A affiliate link that extracts funds used in our oppression. Luke warm patriots , everyone still has an account, everyone is doing “intel gathering” or “just keeping up with old friends and family, nothing more” – – Spineless Mask wearing, bug eating big talking do nothing lazy americans, many are no longer even human, dna altered, jab created genetically modified organism’s —