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You can get ban over what you say in Twitter DM. Using your DM to harass someone is a bannable offence for example, and it should. I think it is perfectly norm

by maeln 6y ago

You can get ban over what you say in Twitter DM. Using your DM to harass someone is a bannable offence for example, and it should. I think it is perfectly normal that community want to have a certain quality and moderate for this reason. Are we going to complain that HN ban trolls because it impede on their "free-speech" ? Or spammer ? The case of Amazon is different though. If you have a contract with a company and the company terminate the contract with no valid reason, you should sue. It is their right to break the contract because they don't want to deal with you, but then they have to pay a fine because they were engaged in a contract with you and they broke it.

mattjoyce 6y ago
> It is their right to break the contract because they don't want to deal with you, but then they have to pay a fine because they were engaged in a contract with you and they broke it. That would depend on the terms.
- maeln 6y ago
  Yes absolutely. The catch being that most company include a catch-all termination condition where they can terminate the contract whenever they want. It is then the justice who has to step in and say if those condition are valid or not. If my memory is correct, those kind of catch-all terms where deemed non-applicable in the EU, but it doesn't prevent company from still putting them in the hope that you won't sue them afterward.
armada651 6y ago
> You can get ban over what you say in Twitter DM. Using your DM to harass someone is a bannable offence for example, and it should. Getting banned over harassment in a DM is not the same as getting banned over expressing your opinion in a DM.
- maeln 6y ago
  Sure, and I don't believe anybody got banned from expressing their opinion over DMs. But if your DMs include threat, pushing for insurrection, pushing for violent action, etc, you will still be in violation of most website TOS.

by maeln 6y ago

mattjoyce 6y ago

> It is their right to break the contract because they don't want to deal with you, but then they have to pay a fine because they were engaged in a contract with you and they broke it. That would depend on the terms.

maeln 6y ago
Yes absolutely. The catch being that most company include a catch-all termination condition where they can terminate the contract whenever they want. It is then the justice who has to step in and say if those condition are valid or not. If my memory is correct, those kind of catch-all terms where deemed non-applicable in the EU, but it doesn't prevent company from still putting them in the hope that you won't sue them afterward.

armada651 6y ago

> You can get ban over what you say in Twitter DM. Using your DM to harass someone is a bannable offence for example, and it should. Getting banned over harassment in a DM is not the same as getting banned over expressing your opinion in a DM.

maeln 6y ago
Sure, and I don't believe anybody got banned from expressing their opinion over DMs. But if your DMs include threat, pushing for insurrection, pushing for violent action, etc, you will still be in violation of most website TOS.