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Sean Plunket founded The Platform in 2021.
Broadcaster and founder of online news site The Platform Sean Plunket has had his Twitter account suspended.
A post on The Platform Twitter account on Monday afternoon said Plunket had been “permanently suspended”, with Plunket describing the move as “Another victory for free speech” on his own Facebook page
Screenshots circulating online show the suspension is apparently due to his breaking privacy rules as well as the “hateful conduct rule”.
Plunket said he had no idea why he had been suspended. “I know as much as anyone,” he told Stuff.
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He said it was likely prompted by complaints from the “anti-woman brigade” who had turned out in force last week to protest planned events in Auckland and Wellington by anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker.
The Platform’s Sean Plunket was suspended from Twitter on Monday.
Plunket described the protests as “mob rule” and the ensuing cancellation of Parker’s “a victory for cancel culture and bullies in the trans and gay communities.
“It wasn’t me who whipped up hysteria about Nazi s… given the crowing from the anti-women brigade [online] I’m presuming they complained,” he said.
