Posted on 02/21/2018 9:25:01 AM PST by AU72
Overnight Twitter exploded with rage, sending #TwitterLockOut to the top of the trending list. People like Ben Garrison, the famous cartoon artist, are reporting they have lost thousands of followers in an instant and more are dropping out by the minute. It appears that only conservative accounts are included in the follower purge.
#TwitterLockout - just saw 2k followers go poof~ What's up Twitter? — BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) February 21, 2018
RED ALERT!
Twitter is Banning Hundreds of THOUSANDS of Conservative Accounts Tonight.. I literally just lost 5,000 Followers within the last 10 minutes.
All hands on Deck America, #TwitterLockOut — Matt Couch ?? (@RealMattCouch) February 21, 2018
In a matter of hours it seems twitter removed over 2,500 followers from my account.
Anyone else experiencing this today? #TwitterLockOut — Veteran For Trump (@Veteran4Trump) February 21, 2018
#TwitterLockOut shit it just dropped another 1,000 — Joe Biggs (@Rambobiggs) February 21, 2018
How in the world did I lose 500 followers in less than 3 hours?! ??@carrieksada @thebradfordfile @DebbieAAldrich I noticed y’all lost some too: must be those pesky “Russians”. SAD #TwitterLockOut #MAGA pic.twitter.com/r1rxPew9c5 — Donald J. Thump (@POTUSThump) February 21, 2018
Gab TV broadcast the reports they are getting by the thousands of people locked out. Twitter seems to be labeling Trump supporters "Russian bots" and banning them until they provide confidential information most people don't want Twitter to have.
BREAKING: Twitter falsely labels thousands of users as bots, locks them out of their account?? https://t.co/nIzzClqMBU — Gab: Free Speech Social Network (@getongab) February 21, 2018
This is not unexpected. We have been reporting on Twitter tomfoolery for quite a while now and have been waiting for the main purge to begin. This looks like the big one. In order to get back into their accounts, Twitter is requiring a phone number to be attached to the account. Gab TV thinks it could be a data grab. At the same time, Twitter is having a scandal at Periscope involving minors being groomed by pedophiles and talked into doing sexual acts online for adults. Critics say Twitter hasn't done much to stop it. The Daily Mail reported on it back in December:
In a video shown to The Sunday Express, a girl aged around seven or eight is seen sitting in her living room, with her mother just metres away, while paedophiles post sexual requests. Speaking to the paper, Shaun Stockdale, 34, from Hull, said he noticed a large number of users clicking onto the video and was disturbed by the comments being posted underneath. 'It became clear pretty soon that these were not children her own age, they were grown men – paedophiles – exploiting her for their own gratification.
Periscope and Twitter are aware of these issues but it was still going on as of last week when I reported two videos that were brought to my attention showing minor girls being harassed and groomed by sickos. The same thing happened to #MeToo during a live stream and I was unable to block the harasser.
More importantly, controlling the most important tool in Trump’s election - a means for him to communicate directly with Americans without the Bolshevik media filter.
There was no way they would allow that to happen again; they’ve been working to prevent it even before election night (when Hillary wasn’t “ahead by 50 points”)...
Bkmrk.
I joined Gab and cannot for the life of me figure out how to navigate the damn site
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I lost a dozen followers on Twitter overnight. The biggest single loss of followers I ever had.
The people running progressive, fascist, social Marxist sites (Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) are so hateful, so intolerant, so unAmerican.
Yep book burning and suppression of non party line thoughts...opening shots of revolution....
“Fascism is as Fascism does”
Come on, its not like they refused to bake a cake for some homos.
I just checked my account. I’ve lost 25 in under a week.
These massive social media powerhouses are an ideological part of the “Leftist Government In Waiting”.
They have become an adjunct to the totalitarian government envisioned by Orwell in his novel “1984”.
Orwell described a world which the totalitarian government controlled speech and communication and rewrote the historical record in real time.
Today the social media companies own and provide the technology and vehicles to communicate in ways Orwell could not have forseen.
But that also gives them the tools and power to control speeh in ways that (so far) are able to bypass Constitutional guarantees of free speech.
What value is that constitutional guarantee when everyone is communicating on a system that is extra-constitutional?
again, please everyone do not be stupid to give Twitter your phone number (and thus ability to identify you as an individual) for their enemies’ list
There are TONS of social media networks out there.
You’ve only heard about 3 though.
And that, is why it’s hard to start another.
last night my Twitter account locked..i hardly tweet I’m mostly a “like” kind of gal but last night got a message saying i need to put in my phone number to verify otherwise will stay locked so I did..but I notice today some of my followers are gone..i don’t remember how many i had but it seems less
Jack is gone from twitter, more need to be expelled!
From another site
It appears they are removing bots and AI sites. Some people are having to prove they are human and then are returned to the site.
If so this is a good thing. Conservatives sites are seeing the most action because nobody in their right mind would program an artificial intelligence or spam team to target a liberal. They are them.
The last gasp of the Deep State.
Ol’ Gab does have a learning curve to it. You’ll get the hang of it.
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