Watkins maintains one Telegram channel strictly for his own missives and another where subscribers can also post. He promotes the latter and has described it as his “associated chat channel.”
Watkins professes to loathe censorship of any kind, once writing, “Tyrannical leaders despise free speech.”
Like many who’ve been permanently suspended from Twitter, Watkins cheered Elon Musk’s plan to buy the platform. “Mark my words, this will end with FULL restoration of free speech,” he wrote of Musk’s interest in Twitter in April.
But when it comes to his own chat room, he doesn’t seem to have any problem restricting speech.
A search of his chat channel, Ron Watkins [Code Monkey Z] Chat, shows that 40 people have been automatically banned for using a certain word or words in recent weeks.
The year-long bans are enacted by a bot called “SecOfDef.”