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> why were those accounts banned? Twitter is/was a ban happy shithole. It is absolutely trivial to get banned on Twitter. My favorite example is someone I kno
by zionic 4y ago
> why were those accounts banned?
Twitter is/was a ban happy shithole.
It is absolutely trivial to get banned on Twitter. My favorite example is someone I know getting banned for posting pitbull fatality statistics. They were banned for “racism”. Against dogs.
Twitter needs a top to bottom purge.
- mrtranscendence 4y agoI call bullshit. Nobody was banned from Twitter for being racist against dogs. Full stop. Did not happen.
- mirceal 4y agoi mean... i can see some automatic system banning some users. does that mean twitter does this on purpose? probably not.
- zionic 4y agoNot going to dox myself via sharing their @. It's banned now so you can't see it anyways. They were attacked by some pitbull advocacy club and likely mass-reported. The replies were full of people saying things like "this is exactly like how white people post statistics to say black people commit more crime! Report this person for racism!" It was charts of dog fatalities per year broken down by breed.
- mrtranscendence 4y agoI still don’t believe that’s the whole story. Maybe it was automatic due to the large number of reportings. But I’m certain nobody at twitter said “yep, let’s ban him for racism against pit bulls”.