Senator Ted Cruz came to the defense of a grassroots activist on Twitter Sunday after news broke that Chuck Nellis, an influential Christian conservative voice with over 142,000 followers had his account suspended for no given reason.

Nellis, who I’ve personally followed on Twitter for years and have yet to see anywhere remotely near the kind of hate spewed from the average leftist with no retribution, announced that he’d been sent to the Twitter Gulag on Sunday using a new Twitter handle, @ChuckNellisJail:

6 years, 737,000 Tweets, 142,000 followers & Twitter just KILLED @ChuckNellis account with NO REASON. I hate this crap, WHAT FREE SPEECH???

— NEW Chuck Nellis (@ChuckNellisJail) June 18, 2017

Nellis’s being banned caught the attention of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who called the suspension absurd and said that if Twitter is “censoring speech to promote left-wing views, that’s a real problem.”

This is absurd. Twitter is not the speech police. If they insist on censoring speech to promote left-wing views, that's a real problem. https://t.co/zhjVgqk1j5

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 18, 2017

Nellis, a strong supporter of Ted Cruz during the 2016 Republican presidential primary, who was “Never Trump” but after the election, like many conservatives has taken a position of judging Trump on an issue by issue basis:

To be clear for folks who haven't read me in sometime: I'm not never Trump anymore, after he won I've judged him fairly on accomplishments.

— NEW Chuck Nellis (@ChuckNellisJail) June 19, 2017

Many other followers of Chuck Nellis have joined in, requesting that Twitter reinstate his account, while others bashed the social media giant for hypocrisy:

Yeah I got a request reinstate @ChuckNellisJail's account https://t.co/nrNGDoqfF3

— UncleFacts (@unclefacts) June 19, 2017

@chucknellis was the first Tweeter to follow me. I enjoyed our convos immensely. @Twitter, stop the bias insanity!@ChuckNellisJail

— WhatATimeToBeAlive (@RStephens1962) June 19, 2017

Sex Offenders can use Twitter but Chuck Nellis gets suspended.

Let that sink in, @tedcruz @ChuckNellisJail https://t.co/fd5rqOnKSm

— KeepAmericaRed2018 (@PolarWhut) June 19, 2017

Nellis says that he has appealed the deletion of his original Twitter account three times but Twitter management have ignored his plea:

3 times, yes. No response why. Just closed.

— NEW Chuck Nellis (@ChuckNellisJail) June 18, 2017

Twitter, which is run by San Francisco progressive leftists, has earned the reputation of being biased against outspoken conservative Christians like Chuck Nellis who are making an impact against the Left’s anti-American ideology.