Posted on 04/30/2012 10:30:56 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
As of late, conservatives have been dominating social media platforms including Twitter. In 140 characters or less, conservatives have managed to get deep under the skin of the progressives using the site and in retaliation, it seems, some Twitter users from the left are creating “blocklists” to automatically get conservatives’ accounts suspended.
If you are conservative and using Twitter, you may be on a “blocklist.”
Chris Loesch is one such unlucky conservative who had his account suspended twice in one hour. Apparently, Mr. Loesch got into a heated Twitter discussion with progressives who were threatening and harassing his wife Dana, who works for the Breitbart empire.
A group of “tweeps” from the left banded together and “spam blocked” Loesch’s account activating the automatic suspension tool woven into the Twitter technology. If enough people click the “Block for Spam” button on an account, the user is suspended without warning.
Loesch’s initial suspension was less than 30 minutes old when the hashtag #FreeChrisLoesch started trending. A conservative army of followers heard of the suspension and “flash mobbed” twitter with an outpouring of support for Loesch. His account was reinstated only to have the very same thing happen minutes later.
Rumors on Twitter and other social media sites suggest that there are other conservatives who are being “targeted” not for actual spam, but for being conservative. There are lists floating around that encourage Twitter users to abuse the auto-suspension tool to silence those who disagree politically.
If you have seen or can link to any such lists, DM me on Twitter. This story isn’t over yet.
ROFLMFAO!
Twitter’s TOS (Terms Of Service) just like AOL’s were biased against conservatives! Or let’s say more regularly ENFORCED against conservatives than liberals.
after all - Aren’t the jerks who started twitter and googala, radical leftist’s themselves?
And who the heck ever bother’s to read their Efn terms of service...
most of the lefties that frequent these talk/discussion groups, do this on a full-time basis! They have no jobs, are probably collecting SSI and sitting in the basement of their mommy’s house at their computers.
Usually you can spot them by their self-inflicted User Names.
One ahole on AOL, if I can remember, went by user name F***Bush... Numerous complaints and AOL never removed him/her ... great TOS there!?
“City Data?” discussion groups were/are liberal biased also.
b o r i n g ... leftists - Winning an argument for them means taking their ball and going home!
But it’s private property.
They can block who they want to protect their political and cultural philosophies.
Right?
Who wastes time with something like this “twitter blocking”?
I’d say get a life liberal pubes..
How do you get in a discussion on Twitter? I thought all you could do was follow or send messages to certain subscriptions. Do you have to have everyone in the discussion continually send their messages to the same subscription or something? Not to mention how can you carry on any kind of a discussion when you’re limited to about half a sentence per message.
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