Thread by @AnnaOdesitka

🚨1. Important. Remember when X blocked Ukraine country code 2 years ago so we could not register?

Something even more dark happen now. I talk to several other Ukrainians who get banned like me for no reason. Not suspended, but banned. None of us have appeal option

2. As I tell you yesterday I had theory. I turn on my VPN and change my location to Ireland. Appeal option available. Between few of us we test this out. So far Germany, Ireland, France, Poland, Italy and UK will let us appeal. We only don’t have appeal option in Ukraine

3. So here is what is happening.

-Accounts in Ukraine are banned permanently for no valid reason.

-Accounts in Ukraine cannot appeal suspension because X remove that option.

-When we use VPN to appeal, it is denied within seconds.

4. As you know, I was banned for saying there was genocide in Chechnya 25 years ago. In my appeal I provided historical links showing this as factual statement. But even if it was not factual statement, how does saying that result in ban? I asked. I wrote such long

5. Appeal, you would think it was prison case. When it was rejected within seconds, it was clear appeal review did not even happen.

I urge all volunteers in Ukraine and all Ukrainians to get backup account with location in any other country but here.

6. Your suspensions are likely not about what you say or what flag you have in your profile but your location.

I will keep trying to get my old account back because I did nothing wrong. I send appeal so far every hour hoping someone actually read it. But I think it’s we

7. Are being silenced. It’s not paranoia. Although I’m paranoid. There is no sensible explanation for these “glitches” targeting only one location on earth.

8. And really I have question. How is this legal? It can’t possibly be legal for company to silence one nation in war because they prefer aggressor. I think they don’t target massive accounts as it would be too obvious. They target medium and smaller accounts.