Thread by @_journaling_

@jack The amazing thing is that Jack Dorsey can post this "fertilizer" and be taken seriously.

Reality check: @coffeespoonie saw her account get suspended after she talked back to the neo-Nazis who threatened to rape her.

@jack @coffeespoonie I have a best friend who posted his last active tweet and logged out for the last time three days ago, after his cousin got suspended.

@jack @coffeespoonie The cousin didn't break any of the rules on this site or do anything that any sane person would consider to be wrong.

@jack @coffeespoonie A member of Twitter's writing community ran into a creative block. The characters were behaving a compulsive manner that got in the way of plot development. The cousin offered her a suggestion for how to get past that creative block, introducing her to a little basic psychology.

@jack @coffeespoonie The writer, who turned out to be fond of playing cat and mouse games, then accused him of sexually propositioning her, despite the fact that he had obviously done no such thing.

She gathered a mob and targeted him for harassment, just to prove that she could.

@jack @coffeespoonie Members of the mob even admitted that they knew that this was all nonsense. They said that they were doing this for the lulz, because they loved the bloodsports.

They publicly admitted that this was trolling.

@jack @coffeespoonie The cousin ended up having to hide his tweets for six months, anyway. When he tried to engage on Twitter, again, at the start of this month, his account was locked within minutes.

@jack @coffeespoonie He appealed and waited for two weeks. No response. We visited his profile a few days ago, and could see that he was now suspended.

Still no response.

@jack @coffeespoonie Thinking that maybe the ticket had been closed without notice, he then appealed the suspension and then got a notice telling him that his original ticket was still open.

@jack @coffeespoonie Nobody even bothered to look at his appeal before suspending him. Even after being sent reminders of this pending appeal, which will be three weeks old tomorrow, nobody has bothered to reply to it by email.

@jack @coffeespoonie But one of your employees did bother to reply through informal channels.

His explanation: "we don't like Jews.":

Us: "We've been noticing that."

@jack @coffeespoonie My friend, himself, had been dealing with an attempt by members of that same community to get him thrown off of the site and swatted, because he wrote a short story that they didn't like.

He heard about the cousin and thought "this is enough."

@jack @coffeespoonie The cousin, who seems destined to never get any sort of hearing at all, is a mousy probabilist who mostly writes about pre-WWII literature, black and white photography and caffeinated beverages.

This was the scary guy who isn't getting a hearing.

@jack @coffeespoonie Meanwhile, Jack, you're on record as having fought to keep Richard Spencer on this site.

@jack @coffeespoonie You silence the Jews, radically empower the people harassing them (including literal neo-Nazis), refusing to even listen to the marginalized people your staff suspends without just cause, and you want to talk about serving the interests of Society?

@jack @coffeespoonie Which Society is that, Jack? Some future Fourth Reich?

@jack @coffeespoonie When your staff refuses to even look at our appeals, after our tweets get false flagged by the Nazis, and your staff's only response is somebody giggling off of the record about the mistreatment of those being harasses, in what sense are you trying?

@jack @coffeespoonie Here's one for you, Jack - do a search and how many reports there are of anti-Semitic incidents on this site. Over 30 million, I hear.

There aren't even 15 million Jews on the planet. Imagine the exhaustion of dealing with that.

@jack @coffeespoonie Imagine the experience of writing in to report the slurs, even the death threats you've gotten, and watching Support refuse to do anything.

@jack @coffeespoonie Then imagine being the Jewish boy who, having been slurred and harassed on a daily basis for three years, while the staff on your site refused to act, got a 12 hour lockout after daring to say that he wasn't much bothered by the thought of the so-called "white genocide."

@jack @coffeespoonie It's an Alt-Right concept. I know you've heard of it, Jack, but I'll remind you of what it is, anyway.

Supposedly, immigration and interracial marriage are going to wipe out the white race, so together, they are referred to as "white genocide."

@jack @coffeespoonie The same staff that refused to act when the white supremacists threatened to shove this guy into an oven snapped into action quickly, the moment he dared to say that he had no objection to the idea of Turkish men marrying German women. Or vice versa.

@jack @coffeespoonie The rest of this story should be familiar to you. 12 hours came and went. The lockout was still going on.

The user who was locked out asked why he was still locked out. Your anonymous staffer then started lying to him.

@jack @coffeespoonie First, he denied that the user was writing from the email address used to registered the locked account on Twitter.

The user forwarded an email from Twitter showing that this was not the case.

@jack @coffeespoonie Your employee then denied that 12 hours had passed, even though at this point, it was now a few days.

@jack @coffeespoonie Knowing that the Jewish user he was helping to harass had cerebral palsy and could only type very slowly, your employee capitalized on that disability by taking a long list of completely innocuous treats, declaring them to be hate speech.

@jack @coffeespoonie Your employee then told the user that he'd have to appeal each of these false flagging done by a Twitter employee, individually.

I could go on and on like this, @Jack, but one more example will do.

@jack @coffeespoonie There is a user who came to you, personally, after a tweet of his that explained the meaning of an expression in Haketia (a Moroccan Jewish language) was locked out of his account on the basis that the tweet was supposedly a death threat. Even though it obviously wasn't.

@jack @coffeespoonie His twelve hour lockout started in August of 2018. It's still going. Your staff has refused to admit that in over a year, that 12 hours have passed.

That user, of course, was also Jewish. Notice a pattern? We sure have.

@jack @coffeespoonie And so have you, Jack. Yes, Jack, we know, you've pledged to fight Hate and Injustice on Twitter, but when your company fights in court to be given the right to deal capriciously with its own users, that pledge rings a little hollow.

@jack @coffeespoonie This, Jack, will probably be my last active engagement on your miserable excuse for a site. As my friend, who is out getting some late summer sun right now, has observed, as users we have an excellent way of getting even with companies like yours.

"All we have to do is nothing."

@jack @coffeespoonie If users don't post, what does Twitter have? Nothing.

As for your love of trolls, Nazis and racists, let me let you in on a little secret, Mr. Dorsey - when they don't have anybody left to harass, these are the most boring people on Earth.

@jack @coffeespoonie I'm going to unroll this thread, make it into a moment, and then have the sense to do as my friend and roommate did a few days ago and log out for the last time.

Then I'm going to go out and enjoy that same nice day, while sipping some iced coffee and reading a good book.

@jack @coffeespoonie You've got a plan for making Twitter less of a hellhole? No, Jack, you have a press release and a desire to get angry people off your back, while you continue doing the same old thing.

Time's up, Jack. We're not falling for this act, any more. Goodbye.

@jack @coffeespoonie I've unrolled the thread

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and archived it.

archive.is/Mhuiz

web.archive.org/web/2019082920…

^

@jack @coffeespoonie I've also made it into a moment

twitter.com/i/moments/1167…

which I've also archived.

archive.is/eg6kz

web.archive.org/web/2019082920…

^

@jack @coffeespoonie I'm now going to temporarily retweet these last few tweets and then re-archive my own profile.

@jack @coffeespoonie That way, if Support plays the game of deleting content and then lying about it with me, all I have to do to find the archived copies and prove to them to be liars is to remember my own Twitter handle.

I think I can do that. 🙂

@jack @coffeespoonie My last manual tweet, ever. The end of a brief, pointless era.

After this, I'm going to let @IFTTT and @Automattic do my tweeting for me. That, @Jack, is the future of your site - it's where people are going to send their new content notices without engaging, at all.

@jack @coffeespoonie @IFTTT @automattic You'll lose your billions, but at least you'll still have the Nazis. Awesome trade, d00d. 🙄

Over and out.

@jack @coffeespoonie @IFTTT @automattic unroll @threadreaderapp