Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s twitter account was temporarily limited on Thursday after posting what he claims to have been questions about placing support for Israel first over the interests of the United States.
DeCastro’s account was flagged by the service with a notice in his notifications reading, “We’ve added a temporary label to your account which may impact its reach. Learn more here.”
Flagging by Twitter may happen for a lot of reasons and usually results in a limit on the account of who can comment on you posts and a limit placed a user’s account of who can see the same posts.
In effect, he was given notice that he would be “shadow banned” for his comments, which are the same claims he had previously made against YouTube. This temporary ban may hinder his ability to interact with his fans on the platform but was apparently cleared up later on Thursday.
As of press time, we’ve had no problem reading or replying to his posts. However, we can’t tell if it’s a bigger issue as DeCastro’s following on the platform was miniscule before the ban as the only responses he seems to get are an equal mix of a handful of supporters and dedicated trolls.
Unlike his previous suspension from the platform, where DeCastro had been banned for doxing YouTuber Glober Mom until he removed the controversial content, the flag and ban appeared temporary and appeared to go away by the end of the week.
DeCastro’s comments came after a disastrous Wednesday night live stream in which he admitted that he was essentially streaming in order to provide his editors with material to use for stand-alone anti-police videos. He had no other point or purpose and seemed to be stuck in a rut with his feigned outrage.
The crux of his attacks was on the Midwest Safety YouTube, which features edited bodycam videos. DeCastro attempted to convince his audience that the channel was a “psychological operation” run by a former police officer.
DeCastro complained bitterly about the amount of revenue generated by the channel from each video. He then questioned how the channel obtained its videos and how the person running it knew which videos and case numbers to request in order to make an interesting video.
Updating his “Constitution Headquarters” game, DeCastro said that there may be a delay on his release of videos in support of the game as he’s copyrighting all the videos at copyright.gov before releasing them to YouTube.
He also said that he has repurposed his “First Amendment Auditor” idea and the project will be coming out in another platform with multiple partners involved.
DeCastro finished the livestream by assuring his fans that he would “get paid” for the overturning of his arrest last year in Las Vegas, Nevada. New to his angry rant about the situation came the idea that he would be suing Judge Michelle Leavitt, who oversaw his appeal, for not allowing him out of jail during the appeals process.
While the YouTuber has reopened his GoFundMe campaigns related to funding lawsuits, he has yet to follow through on any of his lawsuit threats in regard to the appeals process of his 2023 arrest in Las Vegas.
His existing federal civil rights lawsuit against the officers who arrested him is currently facing a second summary judgment motion, which may result in the dismissal of the lawsuit.
This is an on-going news story.
