By Dade Hayes Finance Editor Twitter has banned InfoWars personality Owen Shroyer for using Twitter and its live-video subsidiary Periscope to promote a rally on Saturday in Austin, TX against the state’s stay-at-home order during COVID-19.
Shroyer this week conducted live streams in which he derided the virus response as a “deep-state” over-reaction and mockingly coughed in the direction of a campus police officer.
He has given a name to Saturday’s rally: “You Can’t Close America.” The protests in Texas coincide with outcries in Ohio, Michigan and other states, where gatherings of hundreds or even thousands of demonstrators have raised public health alarms and tied up traffic.
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