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Recently twitter was auto-suspending everybody who had "Elon Musk" as a subset of their name, including parody accounts such as "Italian Elon Musk" or puns invo
by notthemessiah 8y ago
Recently twitter was auto-suspending everybody who had "Elon Musk" as a subset of their name, including parody accounts such as "Italian Elon Musk" or puns involving the name. Twitter goes out of their way to prevent anything resembling fraud reguarding the blue-checkmarked accounts, yet if you have one, you're able to spew as much bullshit as you want.
Who gets a blue-checkmark is a rather arbitrary selection process, and Alex Jones retains his despite launching harassment campaigns against Sandy Hook victims. If you don't want to suspend the account, why not take away his coveted blue checkmark?
- tomjakubowski 8y ago@alexqarbuckle changed his account display name to "Italian Elon Musk" for a dumb but hilarious bit and lost his blue checkmark over it. So that's where the line is, I guess. https://twitter.com/alexqarbuckle/status/1008257043843690497 https://twitter.com/alexqarbuckle/status/1008257043843690497