Eight long months ago I started an experiment. I needed to see if I would be held accountable. Not for the words I would write but for the words I would plagiarize. I needed to see if I, as an average citizen, was held to a higher standard of conduct than the original author 1/6

I set out without a goal in mind but with a simple premise. Would I be suspended for saying the exact same thing as the President of the United States?

It turns out I would. Over the course of those eight months I was suspended four times. The President was not. 2/6

An outpouring of support joined in on the experiment. People from around the globe joined in and reported my posts, to which I am most humbly grateful. They constantly begged Twitter to do something. We banded together and time and time again pleaded our case only to have it 3/6

fall upon deaf ears.

That, however, has now changed. Twitter has finally listened. They are no longer idly standing by and allowing the President’s account to subvert their platforms rules.

This experiment expanded into a movement. A movement that was ultimately 4/6

successful in answering the burning question, “Will they suspend me?”

It also proved something else. The old adage is true. Even the average can accomplish the extraordinary. A seemingly small idea was powerful enough to play a big part in 5/6

deplatforming the most powerful man in the world.

So, who’s next? 6/6