I am furious. Therefore I will choose my words very carefully.

The ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad posted on Twitter: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.” In context, he was cheering on the brutal murder of Samuel Paty. Twitter did not suspend his account and was slow to delete that tweet.

I responded with what I consider an appropriate level of outrage and called on Twitter to remove his account.

As a result, my Twitter account is now suspended. If Twitter went to the trouble of suspending an account as obscure as mine (524 followers, last I checked), it likely did the same to a lot of other people criticizing Mahathir Mohamad, though I don’t know.

Calling for mass murder doesn’t get your account suspended, but criticism of a call for mass murder does. Twitter calls my criticism “targeted harassment.”

I have no intention of appealing the suspension or removing my response. If Twitter apologized to me (which it won’t, of course), I’d consider resuming the use of my account. In all probability, I’m done with Twitter. I could set up an alternate account, but I’m not in a mood to think about that right now.

Because of the current political climate, I should make a few things clear. I’m not saying Twitter was violating my “First Amendment right” to use their service. It’s their business, and they can act like jerks and kick people off or not as they choose. I am not calling for the repeal or alteration of Section 230 of the CDA. If it didn’t exist, social media sites would have to block content much more aggressively for their own legal protection.

Twitter has the right to delete content for any reason, but that doesn’t make its decision to side with a thug anything but contemptible. It’s going its way and I am going mine. To Hell with Twitter.