Posted on 08/16/2018 10:28:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sometimes I think all the hand-wringing about some sort of online "war on conservatives" is silly. Sure, dude, maybe nobody is paying attention to your brilliant tweets because you've been shadowbanned. Perhaps Twitter's "Trust & Safety Council" really is keeping you from reaching the audience you deserve. Or maybe you're just boring and kind of dumb? I tend to be skeptical of these complaints, but it's possible that there really is an ongoing conspiracy to silence half the country. I have to admit, it would explain why I keep getting suspended from Twitter for no good reason. Maybe Twitter really is out to get conservatives, even us RINO cuck #NeverTrump traitors who probably love Hillary.
Just yesterday, I got locked out of my main Twitter account (@jtLOL) for 12 hours:
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Then it was restored, with the following in lieu of an explanation:
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What rule did I break? I have no idea, and apparently they're not going to tell me. How do I avoid breaking that rule again? Beats me. It's tough to avoid repeating the infraction if I don't know what it was. (Good lookin' out, Franz Kafka.)
Several other non-liberals I know also got a 12-hour lockout at the exact same time. Why? They don't know either.
At least this time, I only got locked out of my account. A few weeks ago I was suspended outright, based on false reports by alt-right trolls. My account was then reinstated, and this is the closest I got to an explanation:
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And this is just the latest incident. Last year I got suspended for using the wrong emojis to describe leftist darling Bradley Manning:
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That was dumb, but at least I knew my "crime."
Twitter can make up any rules it wants and enforce those rules any way it wants. And its users can point out when stuff like this happens to them for no given reason.
In the meantime, the effort to erase Alex Jones from the Internet continues. I do not like Jones, which is why I only pay attention to him when people are telling me why I shouldn't pay attention to him. Lately that effort has been driven by CNN's Oliver Darcy:
Twitter said Friday that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would, for now, remain online, one day after a CNN investigation found that Jones' Twitter accounts appeared to have repeatedly violated the company's rules.
That's right: CNN is "investigating" tweets by a guy they don't like because Twitter hasn't given into the outrage mob and banned him yet. It's not enough that Twitter gives you the tools to block any other user, or mute them, or even mute entire conversations and/or certain words. That's insufficient. Nobody else should be able to see the stuff that you don't like.
And Darcy is staying on the case:
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They’ll probably try to ban the President.
On a related note, I’ve lost almost 1,000 followers in the last 6 months or so. I think most of them have been banned/removed by Twitter.
Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
Well, shilling for one side has worked well for newspapers and news magazines, right? /s
Bkmk
Youtube is banning and demonetizing, Facebook is banning, Twitter is Banning, Mastercharge is banning, and Trump says NOTHING. Alex Jones helped him get elected, and he does Nothing. What a guy!
Makes sense. Just like Lois Learner at the IRS, Twitter and other platforms are trying to censor conservative speech.
These actions are designed to influence an election. Specifically the mid terms.
This tampering is done by US companies, not the Russians.
5.56mm
All those are private companies and you use them per THEIR rules.
The POTUS cannot do anything, no matter who it is............
Per Twit CEO the bannings are timeouts to modify behavior.
Bots?....................
It hit me an hour or so ago that this stuff is sort of like the Colorado bakery thing, where Twitter, Youtube, et-al are the baker and we are the customer.
One difference is that these organizations are very much the equivalent of “the only bakery in town”. And we’re not even asking them to give us anything special. They are merely offering us their generic service and we must follow their rules. But those rules must be publicly displayed.
So, do you think InfoWars has a case for a lawsuit? Do you think the AG should force the ogranizations to re-instate infowars as a member?
Why can they deny him service while a baker can’t deny a homosexual service, regarding selling off the shelf products?
The left wants us to be good little uniform sheep on their plantation. Eff’m
There are laws against discrimination for things like skin color, religion, ethnicity, and lately sexual orientation and sexual identity.
But those laws do not stop discrimination on political grounds..................
So I went to one of my other spoof accounts and called Biden a pedophile.
They suspended that one, so now I'm in the process of calling Cuomo a dick.
They've requested a phone verification for that account.
I gave them the White House Switchboard number.
This keeps up, I won't have any spoof accounts left to harass the DUmmies with.
Why don’t you get you Trump hatin’ arse outta here. You blame him all the time for everything.
What do you expect him to do? He speaks out more than anyone.
Blame Congress. Blame yourself and then just scram.
Simple: Don’t tweet on twitter, don’t google on google, don’t face off on facebook, and don’t you on youtube.
Bkmrk.
You are being swarmed. The left has figured out that since they really don’t have anything of value to say, they can do more good for their cause by silencing others.
They do this by using Twitter’s rules to get people banned. They will do mass follows on people to make their numbers look fraudulent...which will trigger an automatic / 12 hour ban.
Check to see if your followers spiked prior to your ban.
Maybe they left for gab.
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