small affairs: #WalmartElves Suspended for 3 Weeks Now.

12.09.2013

#WalmartElves Suspended for 3 Weeks Now.

The Twitter #WalmartElves on strike are all still suspended.

Keep up with them here: #FreeTheWalmartElves

As of November 27, 2013, there are 8 suspended Twitter accounts for #WalmartElves who supported Walmart Strikers. These Twitter accounts did more than simply annoy Walmart by using the #WalmartElves hashtag. They were used by people attending protests on the ground, they received information from Walmart employees who were afraid of retaliation and they shared this information with the world, and they fought internet censorship. To ignore this censorship imposed upon political speech would be to admit defeat. Twitter has not offered an explanation as to why these accounts were suspended, but we suspect the suspension was requested or demanded by Walmart. It’s very scary to think that a corporation can silence political speech.

#FreeTheWalmartElves is a movement that supports political speech and political speech in the form of parody. If you’d like to help with research and queries to Twitter as to why these accounts were suspended, you will be taking a stand against censorship. The #FreeTheWalmartElves hashtag is also used to draw attention to the struggles of Walmart Associates who fight for a living wage, and the overseas workers in Walmart sweatshops living and dead.

Help stop the war on information. Demand an explanation for the suspended Twitter accounts:

@WalmartElvesLOL
@walmart_elves
@86WalmartElves
@86WalmartElves_

@walmartelves86

@LOLWalmartElves

@WalmartElves_

@NoWalmartElves

Please tell your contacts at the EFF, your contacts on Twitter, bloggers, information activists, and everyone you know.

The WalmartElves Solidarity Network does not forget.

The #Suspended5 - WalmartElves created in 2012 suspended all at once on November 18, 2013.

@walmart_elves - Suspended November 18