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Wow. I was under the impression that Twitter had a fairly high bar for banning accounts. Do you have any examples of the tweets that got members of your communi

Wow. I was under the impression that Twitter had a fairly high bar for banning accounts. Do you have any examples of the tweets that got members of your community banned?

njanirudh 6y ago
Twitter is so one sided and biased it almost makes me barf. So many conservative voices in india have been banned my them without reason.
Consultant32452 6y ago
The Unity 2020 group was basically an idea to put a center-left and center-right person on the ticket for POTUS and they had some stuff like they'd split areas of concern and trade Pres & Vice pres for their 2nd term. Super basic, non-threatening stuff. Nuked from orbit as soon as they got any traction. https://articlesofunity.org/2020/09/press-release-for-our-twitter-ban/ https://articlesofunity.org/2020/09/press-release-for-our-tw...
- snowwrestler 6y ago
  If @articlesofunity was banned based on its content (to suppress a point of view), why hasn’t Weinstein, who talks about the same stuff, not been banned? Why is @aounityhistory still up? Are we supposed to believe that Twitter hates bipartisanship or unity or something? It doesn’t pass the laugh test. Biden’s entire inauguration content package leaned into those themes and we can all note that their accounts are still online. All the signs point to @articlesofunity account being banned for technical violations of Twitter’s terms of service, specifically the use of automation to falsely pump up its follower count. Thats why the banned account had 25.5k followers but the history account, which purports to carry its flame, has about 100 followers.
  - hombre_fatal 6y ago
    That doesn’t pass the sniff test either. Articles of Unity was silenced during the entire period where it had any relevance and momentum. That the election has come and gone, and Weinstein has long stopped pumping it, explains 100 followers of a downstream account that I haven’t even heard of by the way as an avid Weinstein listener (both of them). Weinstein says that Twitter never gave them a reason for the ban, and even after getting a line to Dorsey, the most Twitter would do is allow people to link to Articles of Unity on the app. It’s still banned. And when you link it PM, it still gives you a “suspicious content” warning[1]. That doesn’t just seem like a follower inflation punishment to me. It’s also not the precedent. That defeats your theory on my eyes. As for a reasonable reason that AoU was banned, the most likely one to me is that someone at Twitter didn’t like that AoU was getting hashtags to trend that put people against both Trump and Biden during a critical moment in the race. Their movement would likely hurt Biden the most as it would splinter the “anyone but Trump” voter. Btw asking if Twitter banned AoU because Twitter hates unity is a very weak attempt at brainstorming the truth, is that really where your analysis ended? Twitter has super selective inexplicable inconsistent bans all the time. Like “men aren’t women” getting you suspended while “kill all men” does not. Twitter has obvious heavy handed biases, so don’t overthink it. [1] https://twitter.com/bootylactin/status/1351278941751926788 https://twitter.com/bootylactin/status/1351278941751926788
at-fates-hands 6y ago
Twitter recently clamped down on Qanon accounts, suspending some 70K accounts. Conversely, they also suspended several accounts that supported Antifa which had thousands of followers. I'm not sure the better approach. Suspending the user or an account that has thousands of users attached to it. I honestly couldn't tell you what got them banned; but I'm sure having politically charged tweets probably didn't help either group. It would seem anything political right now is on the radar of Twitter. Aside from that subject matter, I'm not sure what warrants a suspension these days.
FireflyChild 6y ago
I was suspended for 7 days for saying a comedian was "retarded". Then over a year later I was permanently suspended for saying that a bunch of rich scientists that someone was talking about were "a bunch of insufferable cunts". If only I'd said those things about Trump, I'd still be on there....

Wow. I was under the impression that Twitter had a fairly high bar for banning accounts. Do you have any examples of the tweets that got members of your community banned?

njanirudh 6y ago

Twitter is so one sided and biased it almost makes me barf. So many conservative voices in india have been banned my them without reason.

Consultant32452 6y ago

The Unity 2020 group was basically an idea to put a center-left and center-right person on the ticket for POTUS and they had some stuff like they'd split areas of concern and trade Pres & Vice pres for their 2nd term. Super basic, non-threatening stuff. Nuked from orbit as soon as they got any traction. https://articlesofunity.org/2020/09/press-release-for-our-twitter-ban/ https://articlesofunity.org/2020/09/press-release-for-our-tw...

snowwrestler 6y ago
If @articlesofunity was banned based on its content (to suppress a point of view), why hasn’t Weinstein, who talks about the same stuff, not been banned? Why is @aounityhistory still up? Are we supposed to believe that Twitter hates bipartisanship or unity or something? It doesn’t pass the laugh test. Biden’s entire inauguration content package leaned into those themes and we can all note that their accounts are still online. All the signs point to @articlesofunity account being banned for technical violations of Twitter’s terms of service, specifically the use of automation to falsely pump up its follower count. Thats why the banned account had 25.5k followers but the history account, which purports to carry its flame, has about 100 followers.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  That doesn’t pass the sniff test either. Articles of Unity was silenced during the entire period where it had any relevance and momentum. That the election has come and gone, and Weinstein has long stopped pumping it, explains 100 followers of a downstream account that I haven’t even heard of by the way as an avid Weinstein listener (both of them). Weinstein says that Twitter never gave them a reason for the ban, and even after getting a line to Dorsey, the most Twitter would do is allow people to link to Articles of Unity on the app. It’s still banned. And when you link it PM, it still gives you a “suspicious content” warning[1]. That doesn’t just seem like a follower inflation punishment to me. It’s also not the precedent. That defeats your theory on my eyes. As for a reasonable reason that AoU was banned, the most likely one to me is that someone at Twitter didn’t like that AoU was getting hashtags to trend that put people against both Trump and Biden during a critical moment in the race. Their movement would likely hurt Biden the most as it would splinter the “anyone but Trump” voter. Btw asking if Twitter banned AoU because Twitter hates unity is a very weak attempt at brainstorming the truth, is that really where your analysis ended? Twitter has super selective inexplicable inconsistent bans all the time. Like “men aren’t women” getting you suspended while “kill all men” does not. Twitter has obvious heavy handed biases, so don’t overthink it. [1] https://twitter.com/bootylactin/status/1351278941751926788 https://twitter.com/bootylactin/status/1351278941751926788

at-fates-hands 6y ago

Twitter recently clamped down on Qanon accounts, suspending some 70K accounts. Conversely, they also suspended several accounts that supported Antifa which had thousands of followers. I'm not sure the better approach. Suspending the user or an account that has thousands of users attached to it. I honestly couldn't tell you what got them banned; but I'm sure having politically charged tweets probably didn't help either group. It would seem anything political right now is on the radar of Twitter. Aside from that subject matter, I'm not sure what warrants a suspension these days.

FireflyChild 6y ago

I was suspended for 7 days for saying a comedian was "retarded". Then over a year later I was permanently suspended for saying that a bunch of rich scientists that someone was talking about were "a bunch of insufferable cunts". If only I'd said those things about Trump, I'd still be on there....