Dave Rubin Suspended by Twitter After Defending Jordan Peterson

Dave Rubin in an interview with EpochTV's "CrossRoads" premiered on Aug. 11, 2021. Screenshot via The Epoch Times

Twitter suspended Dave Rubin after the conservative talk show host defended renowned Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

“I have been suspended by Twitter for posting a screenshot of Jordan Peterson’s tweet which got he himself suspended,” Rubin wrote in a statement on July 5.

“While it is unclear how I broke their terms of service,” he continued, “it is clear they are breaking their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders by letting a bunch of Woke activists run the company.”

With over 1.3 million followers on the platform, the political commentator and host of “The Rubin Report” returned to Twitter by announcing on Wednesday that he decided to delete the post that got him banned from the platform, upon “much deliberation.”

It happened after he vocally supported bestselling author and psychologist Peterson, who had earlier been removed from the platform after referring to trans actor Elliot Page as Ellen Page—the name she was previously known as.

“Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician,” Peterson wrote on June 22 before getting suspended from the platform that day.

Although Peterson’s account could be restored within 12 hours if he deletes the post, Peterson told Rubin that he will “never” delete the Twitter post.

“The insanity continues at Twitter,” Rubin wrote in a June 29 Twitter post, adding “Paging @elonmusk…” at the end, hoping to raise attention of the potential new owner of Twitter.

But Rubin then, too, revealed in an Instagram update his own temporary Twitter suspension. A screenshot captured by Rubin showed the alert he received from Twitter as well as an advisory to delete the content and abide by the platform rules.

“Elliot Page is a great man who must never be questioned. As for Ellen Page, well, she was less great...” Rubin wrote upon his return on July 6.

“For the record, I strongly considered not coming back, and perhaps that is the right move,” he said. “But for now I chose to stay and fight on their territory while we build better products at @onlocals and @rumblevideo,” he added in reference to his other media platforms.

The commentator said he‘s now banking on billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter so that the latter “can blow up their servers and humanity can move past this pervasive, twisted, self-imposed mental institution.”

The Epoch Times reached out to Twitter for comment.