Thread by @vrosu

I'm back after 7 days in twitmo following about 4-5 days while I was waiting in vain for @twittersupport to address my appeal. No reply whatsoever.
My transgression? Just pointed out to a freshly laid-off journalist (my only tweet ever to that person) that .../

not even learning to code would spare her of that scenario and that she'd be better opening up her own business and drop the 'worker' label (she used that word excessively coupled with 'bloodthirsty capitalists'.
That was all. That's 'abusive behavior' apparently. .../

I'm flabbergasted that @twitter is censoring people so blatantly.
I'm a nobody; a following less than 200, not a public figure, a literally working class nobody.
Why would a Silicon Valley behemoth want to silence me? Why this iron boot intolerance to divergent opinions? .../

As many of you know I was born and lived until the age of 26 in one of the most repressive communist regimes in Easter Europe. I have a very keen sense of what tyrannical powers can do to ordinary people as well of the fiendish effect such a regime has on them, .../

turning children against parents, friends against friends, mentees against mentors, the pervasive culture of snitching on Orwellian wrongthink. .../

This is what happened to me for the past two weeks. Not a big deal in the larger scheme of things: being banned from Twitter does not seem to qualify as hardship or rights infringement. Or does it?
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When FB, Instagram, Twitter, Patreon, Visa, Mastercard, exhibit the same behavior of picking and choosing members of society who have or don't rights to use their ubiquitous platforms, .../

when they use chilling, unpersoning language to cut off undesirables from what is supposed to be an equal access platform, then it's not a trivial matter anymore.
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I watched @gadsaad's interview with @jack: nothing that @jack (as diluted and sanitized his answers were) explained there as infringing on @twitter's terms and conditions apply to what I supposedly did. .../

@twitter does actually behave as an iron wall of intolerance with no recourse. My repeated appeals to their 7-day suspension were completely unanswered. The algorithm claims that if I remove the 'offending' tweet I'd be put in a 7 days TO with the ability to still browse twtr.../

Well, they blocked that too; any attempt to connect to my Twitter account was met by a suspended account page but any attempt to 'continue to twitter' sent me back to the same page. A bug? perhaps.../

If @jack's claims in the @gadsaad interview are accurate, it looks like if a @twitter member with a hefty following has a complaint against another @twitter member, their word is taken at face value by the 'algorithm', the lower class member suspended and appeals ignored.
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Way to 'enable speaking truth to power' @jack! It's the exact opposite of what you claim you wish to achieve.
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I as I see it now, we're facing a grave danger in the corruption of the soul of America; the belief that a significant segment of the American society has no right to a voice, has no right to be heard simply because their views do not align with those who hold real power.
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One of the things I've noticed and appreciated as soon as I set foot on this continent (first in Canada 22 years ago and then even more true in US 11 years ago) was the minimal impact of federal government on its citizen's daily life.
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From paying your utility bills and buying groceries, to getting a job, to finding a place to live, getting a loan, I was free of the oppressive boot of a government that encroached on every aspect of life in the Socialist Republic of Romania.
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Although the power and influence of all levels of government in US is gradually increasing in previously barely touched aspects of ordinary people lives (see obamacare) .../

.. by far the greater threat is the power of a self-anointed establishment of academia, high-tech and high management class with a terrifying uniformity of thought.
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In just two decades they've managed to generalize a censorship mechanism that hides behind free market, but is a de-facto monopoly on discourse as all these companies are owned, controlled or cowed into following one progressive ideology.
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Many times I contemplate upper middle class bien-pensants, living a live of luxury and having sophist arguments about this and that 'oppressed' class/race/protected group; I inevitably end up remembering dialogues from great novels of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.
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Same type of discussions and 'concerns' that progressive Russian aristocracy youth at its apogee was having about the 'others' whom they thought to be separated from by an antiseptic wall of wealth and military might. Well, it didn't end up for them didn't it?
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They've unleashed the monster that ended up devouring them.

/fin