Thread by @rajiv_pandit

UPDATE: my Twitter account was locked for 5 days after exposing a group attacking Hindu American candidates. Why? Because I posted the group's public registration form that contained their address. Apparently this incompetent group filed its papers using a private address. 1/n

Twitter rightfully does not allow posting of private information. But is it my responsibility to know that CAPI, a sham organization created just to attack Hindu candidates, registered itself using a private home address??

So after consulting an attorney, I filed an appeal. 2/n

I informed @TwitterSupport that their own rules expressly permit posting the location of a business when this information is publicly available. 3/n

@TwitterSupport acknowledged my appeal, but their rules force the entire account to remain frozen while they investigate a single tweet, with no approximate time of resolution. 4/n

5 days later, I've decided to withdraw my appeal, even though my attorney & Twitter's own rules support my actions. Instead, I'm reposting my tweet exposing this anti-Hindu group, but I blacked the group's registered address even though this information is publicly available. 5/n

You can verify CAPI's details yourself. Enter "CAPI PAC" as the Entity Name on the state of Michigan's business search site. FYI, they have updated some of their details after I exposed them. 6/n
cofs.lara.state.mi.us/SearchApi/Sear…

CAPI = Coalition of Americans for Pluralism in India

In summary, CAPI was created this year by @MasoodRab, friend of @shaikubaid, who hired Pieter Friedrich full time to attack Hindu candidates. They posted an ad in a Michigan newspaper attacking Hindu American Padma Kuppa. The ad looks like an article, to fool the public. 7/n

I have previously tweeted about Pieter Friedrich's racist, homophobic, Hinduphobic, & anti-democratic views. Now he has also been exposed as a blatant liar by @hinduampac. 8/n