Thread by @sighing_sadly

@Safety So, I see you guys are back to playing your adorable little underhanded censorship games. This time, I tried to reply to a tweet posted by a real life friend



and kept seeing this infamous error message, ...

https://x.com/chicagolandish/status/1952491707661988118

@Safety ... over and over:

"Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Of course, no matter how many shots I give it, the same thing happens. Quite obviously, this is by design. Instead of being openly censorious, you're being passive-aggressively so.

@Safety Now, let's take a look at what you were censoring, because this is just so classy. The friend had defended me against somebody who was racially slurring me here on your site, and this is what I started to write.

This is what you tried to keep me from saying ...

@Safety "Two things.

1. Thank you for standing up for me.

2. @VivvE23 deleted her account. It wasn't locked, suspended or taken away from her. There would be a note at the location of her account, if that had happened.

No, she deleted it, herself."

@Safety Your team has routinely dismissed complaints about anti-Indian racism when they've been reported, no matter how blatantly those posting the tweets we reported had violated the rules.

@Safety You guys then tried to hide from complaints about the hostile environment being created for Desis on this platform, behind your supposed love of free speech.

Where has that supposed love gone, when you're playing games like this, when I merely attempt to comment on the abuse.

@Safety "Freedom of speech, not reach" is a copout, in general, but it becomes a particularly despicable one when your employees are letting the bigots speak freely, while silencing those they've targeted for Hate.

@Safety You've done this, before. You did things like this to Jewish users, and gaslit them about it starting at about the time Donald Trump ran for office, the first time, and neo-Naziism became a fad.

I know, because I've spoken with more than a few of them, in person.

@Safety I guess you forgot how many Jewish mathematicians and scientists there were, not to mention physicians and lawyers, when you singled them out for abuse and censorship, and thought that nobody would ever hear about it.

@Safety Oopsie! They'd walk into departmental teas the next day and tell the whole story. The word about your team's shameful behavior got around to a much wider audience than they would have found at their synagogues.

They told us what happened, and we remembered.

@Safety Now you want to score brownie points with the same Alt-Right trash by silencing Indian-Americans and other Asian-descended people, now that we're the scapegoats that are currently in fashion?

@Safety You guys will put on these great shows, like the Twitter Files thing, claiming that you've seen the light and chosen to reform, but it's always bulls--t with you guys, isn't it?

You're never really reforming. You're just deflecting the rage your actions have earned you.

@Safety We're seeing your redemption, we're seeing a performance out of people who don't want to be held accountable for the things they do.

@Safety You have Grok gently nagging me, trying to get me to spend more time on this site. But if I'm not really free to speak on my own behalf when I get abused by one of your precious racist trolls, why would I agree to do that?

I'm not a masochist.

@Safety This is what is going to happen, and it's not open to discussion. I'm going to be scaling down my activity on X'itter, for now. What little activity you will see out of me will almost all be in the form of non-reply tweets with replies turned off for users I don't follow.

@Safety This is going to drop the ad revenue that you're getting through my account to basically nothing, while costing me nothing other than the slight elevation in my blood pressure that I was getting from dealing with the trolls and your collective decision to enable them.

@Safety Don't like that? Then publicly name, shame and fire the employees who've been empowering the trolls. Make a public spectacle so hard to miss, that the guilty parties never find work, again.

@Safety Don't want to do that? Think that personal accountability is just so square, man? No problemo.

Users like me will continue to spend their time elsewhere, where they really can enjoy life, and the trolls, bigots and lunatics will be the only users you'll really be left with.

@Safety In case you haven't noticed, there's already a site that has built its brand around serving that contingent: . They do a better job of it than you do.Gab.com

@Safety So, if X'itter gets abandoned by everybody else, then it's going to end up becoming a smaller version of Gab. You might notice that Gab only has a few employees.

And so will X'itter, at that point, because the money for paychecks has to come from somewhere.

@Safety If you guys want to wipe out your own jobs just to prove what total edgy badasses you can be, then you do you.

I'll still be making a few hundred dollars an hour while you'll be living on public aid and ramen, but hey, whatever works for you.

Do we understand each other?