Hawley apparently didn’t see the irony of positioning himself as a giant tech foe whereas utilizing huge tech to advertise a e-book that’s anti-big tech. Twitter customers, in fact, pointed it out to him.
Utilizing Twitter to brag about your Amazon gross sales of a e-book about how Twitter and Amazon are silencing you is the whole conservative motion boiled all the way down to its essence. https://t.co/OCJi9pR7sz
— Zach Heltzel (@zachheltzel) May 7, 2021
Nothing reveals you are being SILENCED whereas sticking it to huge tech like tweeting to your 635,000 followers about your e-book gross sales on Amazon https://t.co/FAJsDWJTuj
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 7, 2021
Hmm. Whereas selling a e-book about Huge Tech’s “tyranny,” Hawley used an Apple product to publish an merchandise on Twitter about his Amazon gross sales? https://t.co/XnraDtp1ln
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) May 7, 2021
Capitalists will at all times promote you the rope it’s good to cling them. At Amazon, they will even ship it to your door. https://t.co/vE2Oj3uqpY
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) May 7, 2021
please purchase my e-book “Cease Consuming Meat, A Vegetarian’s Plea To The World” at Captain J Meat’s Meaty Emporium https://t.co/U9K1FrYbg5
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 7, 2021
CNN’s Brianna Keilar famous on Thursday that for all of Hawley’s complaints about being silenced by tech corporations and the media, he’s throughout Fb, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, and he reveals up on Fox Information “as usually as you sweep your enamel.”
Final month, Hawley was dragged on Twitter after selling the e-book as one thing the “company media” and “the woke mob don’t need you to learn.” That pitch additionally included the Amazon hyperlink.
Although Hawley appears to be having no bother discovering retailers for expressing himself, he has confronted penalties for selling Donald Trump’s election lies and elevating a fist in help of Capitol rioters on Jan. 6. Simon & Schuster, which had been set to publish his e-book, canceled the deal, and Lowes Resort Group dropped plans to hold a fundraiser for him.