Twitter accused Contreras of violating its policy against posting material which threatens or promotes violence against others based on their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender. In response, Contreras' supporters have begun to share the hashtag #AManCannotBePregnant. 

 

“We will continue to speak the truth about human nature. Biological truth should not be regarded as ‘hate speech’. It’s biology, not bigotry,” Contreras said. 

 

 Many expressed support for Contreras on Facebook, with some claiming that tech giant censorship was worse than the Spanish Inquisition, while one Facebook user suggested succinctly that “The truth offends.”

 

Others cited comments by 19th-century English writer, philosopher and critic Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who famously warned that “We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four…” and that one day people might “hang a man for maddening the mob with the news that grass is green.”