Internet mocks Ted Cruz for suggesting Twitter is targeting him for criticizing CEO Jack Dorsey

This week, in response to how incapable Facebook has proven itself to be in creating a consistent policy to ensure accuracy in political advertisements, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that his own platform would be banning political ads altogether.

Though many people welcomed this move, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did not. Writing for The Hill, Cruz decried Dorsey's decision as a threat to freedom of speech. But when he posted it on Twitter, Cruz took the lack of replies to the tweet as a sign Twitter was silencing his political criticism of their decision:

Cruz's remark was immediately mocked by commenters: