Earlier this week Twitter temporarily suspended Rose McGowan’s account after she continued to Tweet negative comments about movie produce Harvey Weinstein.
In the past two weeks Weinstein has been met with numerous claims of sexual harassment and assault. Women including the actress Rose McGowan, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevigne and a string of others (some anonymous) have made claims against the producer.
Harvey Weinstein and his wife Georgina Chapman, who reportedly left him this week.
Rose McGowan used the platform to tell actor Ben Affleck to “fuck off,” accusing him of lying about the lack of knowledge he had in relation to Weinstein’s history of sexual assault.
She also claimed that Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos knew Weinstein had raped her and called on him to “stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers.” According to Twitter she was banned because she posted a telephone number which violates Twitter’s terms of service.
3) @Jeffbezos I forcefully begged studio head to do the right thing. I was ignored. Deal was done. Amazon won a dirty Oscar.
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017
After being suspended, (she has now been allowed to return) both women and men in Hollywood have come to defend Rose and show solidarity by boycotting Twitter today. People including Chrissy Teigen, Alyssa Milano and Mark Ruffalo have been encouraging the boycott, and it has absolutely exploded under the hashtags #womenboycotttwitter #boycotttwitter and #istandwithrose.
Ok ok Jesus, let me clear this up. #WomenBoycottTwitter will not silence us, but @Twitter will make much less $$ b/c of fewer clicks. I’m in pic.twitter.com/LPEbKJwpgM
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) October 13, 2017
Tomorrow I follow the Women. #WomenBoycottTwitter
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) October 13, 2017
Tomorrow. And maybe even forever. #WomenBoycottTwitter
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) October 13, 2017
#IStandWithRose .@rosemcgowan and all the other victims. #WomenBoycottTwitter tomorrow. https://t.co/XTXtFMv2CM
— Anna Paquin (@AnnaPaquin) October 13, 2017
Tomorrow (Friday the 13th) will be the first day in over 10 years that I won’t tweet. Join me. #WomenBoycottTwitter pic.twitter.com/xoEt5Bwj5s
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) October 13, 2017
In in 🙂 https://t.co/ylX1BQBwDs
— John Cusack (@johncusack) October 13, 2017
