So I'm suspended off Twitter for a week. Why?
I got into a battle with a checkmark.
The elders among us will recognize this as the sigil of a relentless and dangerous enemy.
Apparently, I've made 'hateful comments' and I need to be 'punished.' And despite the fact that I've definitely said some questionable things on Twitter, there wasn't a hateful thing in this reply.
However what I was replying to on the other hand -
"Let's vote them into oblivion." definitely isn't a loving statement.
The way Twitter's report function works is that if enough people report your Tweet for hateful content, then they'll flag it and demand you delete it. Regardless of whether it's actually hateful. I'm guessing the boys in this guy's replies didn't feel like fighting fair today, because not even two minutes later I got hit with this.
And the reason they stated I was being suspended is because they don't allow targeted harassment of anyone based upon "race, religion (I beg to differ), gender, or income". Well, this tweet obviously isn't directed at any group. Obviously. So who am I harassing? The guy who made the initial tweet? The "terrible Americans and worse humans who need to be voted into oblivion?" Joe Biden?
As we all know the most heinous form of harassment is the dreaded
"not harassing anyone at all." Look at these two monsters.
Of course, it's far more likely that Mr. Blue Checkmark saw my response to his nonsensical tweet, and couldn't comprehend why I wasn't agreeing with him, so he reported it. And don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those guys that try to demand that people with massive online platforms be responsible with the things they say (I think I gave up that right when I published a book about a talking pillow sexually assaulting homeless people.) I honestly don't think it's my place to police anyone's stupidity. But when you see a guy broadcasting borderline intolerance to thousands of people (a good bit of whom he probably has some level of influence on), it doesn't hurt to chime in and call him out. Couple that with the fact that this guy made a serious of tweets, and this was the tamest of them. The other ones were a bunch of horrible zingers implying anyone who doesn't like Joe Biden is an idiotic Trump-loving redneck who's going to die of coronavirus. And the replies are a bunch of people saying the same shit to different levels of happiness. I don't know what kind of platform Twitter is, that its top people are celebrating the imagined deaths of hundreds of others simply because they don't support the president. Or why the narrative is that not liking Joe Biden means you love Trump and you also hate science and fuck your sister. Flawless logic from the Blue Checkmark crowd. You can definitely see why they'd rather report you instead of actually replying to you.
I guess I said all this to say, follow me on Twitter. (After my suspension is up.) And support alternative tech sites like Minds and Gab. They may be cesspools of insane rhetoric, but at least they won't suspend you for arguing with the people who say dumb shit.
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