Laurence Fox received a temporary ban from Twitter over the weekend after he changed his profile picture to that of a swastika made out of four LGBTQ+ pride flags.
The former actor, 44, saw his account temporarily locked after Twitter found the image violated their rules regarding abusive profile information and rules against posting hateful imagery.
A Twitter spokesperson told the Mirror: “We took enforcement action on the account referenced for violating our rules on Abusive Profile Information and Hateful Conduct. The account owner was required to remove the violative profile image before regaining access to their account.”
Laurence returned to posting on Monday morning – sharing the warning from Twitter with his 310,400 followers and discussed the possibility of “wokies” having a meltdown over a new altered image of a flag.
Laurence Fox blasted his Twitter suspension upon his return to the platform, after complying with the rules (
Image: Twitter)
The former actor was ordered to delete this profile picture and image that he shared over the weekend (
Image: Instagram/ @LozzaFox)
The aspiring politician sparked outrage on the social media platform when he changed his profile picture to a swastika constructed from various pride flags just days after a gunman killed two people during the Oslo Pride festival.
“Oh blessed and most holy month!” Laurence captioned his profile picture update on Sunday, seemingly referring to Pride Month which occurs throughout June.
“Not entirely sure why Laurence Fox is allowed to have a Swastika as his profile picture,” presenter Matthew Stadlen tweeted prior to the Reclaim Party founder being suspended from the site, with many more adding their disgust and pledging to report the image.
Laurence shared another controversial image within hours of returning to Twitter (
Image: Instagram/ @LozzaFox)
Upon his return to Twitter on Monday morning, Laurence claimed certain flags are not allowed to be criticised on the social media site.
You can openly call the [Union Jack flag] a symbol of facism and totalitarianism on Tw*tter. You cannot criticise the holy flags [LGBTQ+ pride flags],” the dad-of-two captioned a screenshot of his warning email from Twitter.
In the email sent to the former actor, Twitter told Laurence how his profile picture update had violated their rules and his account had been locked.
In order to regain posting privileges and unlock his account, the wannabe politician was told to “delete the content that violates [Twitter’s] rules” – which he did.
Martin Daubney – deputy leader of the Reclaim Party – replied to Laurence’s comeback tweet with an image of the Union Jack flag reconstructed to create a swastika symbol.
“So is this worthy of a ban?” Martin asked his pal, who quote-tweeted the reply and added: “Waiting for the wokies to have a meltdown about this.”
Following Laurence’s now-deleted profile picture update on Sunday, volunteer-led charity Campaign Against Antisemitism called the controversial activist out for the using the swastika to make a political point.
“Displaying pride flags in the shape of a swastika is not the edgy statement that you think it is,” they wrote on Twitter regarding the image.
