Thread by @willchamberlain

Nearly 60,000 followers - gone, in a drop of a hat.

Because of a nonexistent "parody" violation, since @officeofmike managed @aocpress.

Clearly Mike was trying to comply.

And Twitter suspended him anyway.

Favoritism to @AOC? Anti-semitism?

What's going on, @jack?

If we created a private right of action for wrongfully banned users

@OfficeOfMike could run to the courthouse RIGHT NOW

And get a court order FORCING twitter to IMMEDIATELY restore his account

It's time. PLATFORM ACCESS IS A CIVIL RIGHT.

humanevents.com/2019/05/03/pla…

There's also a process problem here

A 60,000 follower account is a six-figure asset

That Twitter seized from @OfficeOfMike on a whim

$100,000 may be nothing to a 30 billion dollar company

That's why they'll destroy a young man's livelihood for no reason

Oh hey look

The verified account that offered $100 to his ENTIRE AUDIENCE

To DOXX TEENAGE GIRLS

Hasn't been suspended yet

But the Orthodox Jew who was running a parody account that was CLEARLY LABELED AS SUCH was permanently suspended on a whim

Explain yourself @vijaya

I have a thought

Maybe Twitter shouldn't be trusted with the power to determine who gets to speak and who doesn't

Maybe the right to speak on major social media platforms is a CIVIL RIGHT

And when companies VIOLATE YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS they should be PUNISHED

Ridiculous, I know.

Hey @realDonaldTrump you said you were monitoring social media censorship

@OfficeOfMike is an Orthodox Jew who was a fervent supporter of yours

Perhaps it's time to order DOJ's Civil Rights Division to order an investigation into anti-semitic discrimination at Twitter?

Hey @TwitterSupport

It looks like the account "@Twitter" is behaving in an anti-semitic fashion

Targeting Jews like @officeofmike for arbitrary bans

I think it's time to investigate whether the "@Twitter" account is violating the Twitter hate speech rules

Hey @parscale @KatrinaPierson here's an Orthodox Jewish supporter of your boss banned for no reason

If this isn't high ground I don't know what is

Also - @AjitPaiFCC - it's time to stop messing around

Bring some pain

From various sources I've heard rumblings about the "plans" that various agencies have to deal with social media censorhip

It's time to make those plans public

Investors deserve to know about the potential civil and criminal liability Twitter faces

Twitter and Facebook might complain about how unfair and arbitrary it is for agencies to announce investigations that haven't started yet

Which will be delicious irony

I talked about all of this with @timcast today

About the idea that platform access is a civil right

About the idea that you should be able to get a court order restoring your account if you are wrongfully banned

TAKE THE FIGHT TO BIG TECH

humanevents.com/2019/05/06/wat…

Conservatives are operating under a sword of Damocles on the most important platform for political speech in the world

Leftists are not

Because Twitter is run by leftists

It doesn't have to be this way

PLATFORM ACCESS IS A CIVIL RIGHT

https://twitter.com/vjeannek/status/1125599070410690565