On Thursday, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reported that his LinkedIn account had been suspended for violating the website’s policies on “misinformation, hate speech, and violence.” Ramaswamy retaliated by posting screenshots of LinkedIn’s correspondence with him on a Tweet, which began, “Big Tech election interference has begun.”
“Your account was restricted for repeatedly sharing content that contains misleading or inaccurate information,” LinkedIn initially wrote to Ramaswamy.
The candidate asked LinkedIn for clarification regarding the censorship: “Can you please clarify what is misleading in any of these statements made?”
LinkedIn responded, “We don’t tolerate misinformation, hate speech, violence or any form of abuse on our platform. We understand that this might not be the response you wanted, but we work to apply our policies in a fair and consistent way for all of our members.”
Ramaswamy’s account was blocked for nearly a week — until he made the announcement on Twitter. Later that day, LinkedIn restored Ramaswamy’s account, claiming that it had been “restricted in error.”
The job-seeking site referenced three videos that the presidential candidate had previously shared. The first was a February 5 video in which Ramaswamy opined that the Chinese Communist Party was “playing the Biden administration like a Chinese mandolin.”
LinkedIn complained that the second video, shared on February 16, contained the comment, “If the climate religion was really about climate change, then they’d be worried about, say, shifting oil production from the U.S. to places like Russia and China. Yet, the climate religion and its apostles in the ESG movement have a different objective.”
The third video LinkedIn objected to was posted on May 7, and had the audacity to say, “The climate agenda is a lie: fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.”
The 37-year-old Ramaswamy referred to his brief removal from LinkedIn as censorship, and, perhaps, one of the opening volleys of Big Tech’s war against Republicans in 2024.
“Big Tech election interference has begun: @LinkedIn locked my account & censored me this week for posting videos where I expressed fact-based views as a presidential candidate about climate policy and Biden’s relationships with China. They said it violated their policies relating to ‘misinformation, hate speech, and violence.’ Sad but not surprising,” the candidate tweeted.
“Two years ago, Big Tech censored people who argued that we shouldn’t close schools for Covid,” the candidate said in a subsequent tweet. “Now they’re censoring presidential candidates for arguing that fossil fuels are required for prosperity. They didn’t censor me because it’s false. They censored me because it’s true.”
Ramaswamy had previously created a stir when he pointed out some of the climate cult’s hypocrisy in a March video.
Speaking on climate change, Ramaswamy said, “It has nothing to do with the climate. If it did, the people who are calling for the U.S. to stop production [of fossil fuels] here should be really concerned if petrol-China is picking up those projects because … methane leakage … is eighty times worse for global warming than … a unit of carbon dioxide.”
“Methane leakage is worse [in China] than it is here, so, if you really cared about, supposedly, even the core tenet of your religion, your god, the climate you would have cared about shifting that production to places like China because the projects are still proceeding — but they don’t,” Ramaswamy pointed out.
Ramaswamy, a first generation Indian-American, also had strong words against the ESG movement, which considers climate policy and “woke” politics when giving out its scores for investors.
“If you really cared that much about so-called carbon emissions you would be a proponent of nuclear energy,” the GOP candidate noted. “And yet, this ESG movement … excludes nuclear energy companies from their ESG funds. The ESG movement is hostile to nuclear energy. The problem with nuclear energy for this movement is not that it is too bad, but that it might be too good at solving their own — in my opinion — mostly made up problem.”
LinkedIn has a history of removing subscribers for questioning the dogma of the climate cult. In July of last year, the platform removed scientist Gregory Wrightstone of the CO2 Coalition for posting facts about the life-giving molecule known as carbon dioxide, which climate hysterics claim is causing runaway global warming.
Ramaswamy is a problem for leftists. He’s young, intelligent, well-spoken, and, worst of all from a Democrat point of view, he’s a person of color. Expect him to receive the Clarence Thomas treatment from the Left going forward. If there’s one thing that cannot be tolerated by the “tolerant” Left, it’s a person of color who is conservative.
