The Twitter Thought Police
The Twitter Thought POLICE
By Eron Thomas:
Well here I am again suspended from Twitter LOLOL. Not really sure why? I never swore in a post, I never advocated burning down the white house,(no caps for emphasis), never advocated killing anyone, or anything of the sort. I just got a polite little note that said to review the Twitter Best Practices blah blah blah . I have put the quote below:
Hello,
We understand that you're contesting an account suspension. Please be sure to read this entire email; you will need to take further action in order to reopen your ticket and trigger a review of your account.
Twitter suspends accounts for a variety of reasons:
• If your account was suspended for aggressive following behavior, you should have received an email notification to the address associated with your Twitter account. You'll need to confirm that you've removed all prohibited following automation from your account, and will stop any manual aggressive following behavior. To expedite your appeal process, please review our Best Practices page if you haven't already, and then reply to this ticket with a confirmation that you understand our policies and will not engage in any prohibited following behavior.
• Please take a minute to review the Twitter Rules.
• If you received an email from admin@twitter.com saying 'you're being suspended' or that we're going delete your account, you're safe; the email is fake. More information here https://support.twitter.com/articles/204820-safety-fake-twitter-emails
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Twitter Support
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You will notice here that it says (if). There is no clear indication in the whole email what the suspension is actually for. After reading the Best Practices, I still cannot discern any particular example of how I have violated the “rules”, and there is still no specific example in the email that I received of how I have “violated” the rules. I have just somehow, in someone’s “opinion” violated them.
Then it comes to me. If you are a liberal spouting hate and profanity there really are not Twitter Best Practices. There are NO suspensions if you are advocating Killing Mitt Romney: trying to incite a riot if your candidate doesn’t win: calling for the murder of all Jews, or using 4 letter profanities. There are only Best Practices if you are Gay and Conservative and believe me they discriminate. Kind of funny don’t you think?
Well here I sit in Twitter Purgatory, for like the 3rd time in 6 weeks. What I am advocating must really be pissing someone off, but then again the truth is never a welcome visitor to the propagandist.