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This is another power imbalance that is so frustrating. The account was “permanently suspended”, which you think means permanently suspended. But that only appl
by celeritascelery 4y ago
This is another power imbalance that is so frustrating. The account was “permanently suspended”, which you think means permanently suspended. But that only applies to normies. All the words are meaningless if twitter says otherwise. It’s really like living under a medieval king who is a law unto himself.
- brazzy 4y agoWrong tree to bark up. "Permanently" only means there is no time limit with an automatic reactivation afterwards. It's absolutely possible for a "normie" to get a permanent ban reviewed and lifted.
- CharlesW 4y agoThe point is that they're using "permanently suspended" to mean "indefinitely suspended". They could also just say "suspended".
- Dylan16807 4y ago"Indefinitely" is reasonable, but doesn't make it clear that they have finished their current investigation. So it's also imperfect. Just "suspended" is not a good option at all, because it says nothing about duration.
- cgriswald 4y ago"Indefinitely suspended" implies that Twitter might, on its own, lift the suspension at some point in the future. "Permanently suspended" (with chance to appeal the suspension in the message) means exactly what happened here.
- creata 4y ago"Indefinitely suspended" might be better, but just "suspended" is probably going to be very confusing. In education, for example, "suspension" is a temporary ban, and "expulsion" is a permanent ban.
- zeruch 4y ago"All the words are meaningless if twitter says otherwise. It’s really like living under a medieval king who is a law unto himself." That's every company policy, ultimately. C-Suites and the like exist partially to do "exception handling" (or for all y'all Papists out there, "special dispensations")
- helsinkiandrew 4y agoPermanently suspended means not temporarily suspended (for a few weeks etc). Everyone gets the ability to appeal. Whether the twitter kerfuffle affected the appeal process is another matter though.
- p_j_w 4y agoI think the word they really want to use there is "indefinitely." It doesn't imply the same thing that "permanently" does.
- helsinkiandrew 4y agoBeing pedantic indefinitely means "lasting for an unknown or unstated length of time", which kind of implies that the account will be unbanned at some point in the future. But I don't think there's an English word that conveys something will last for ever but could be stopped. Perhaps they should use "limited ban" for a temporary ban and "unlimited ban" for permanent or "permanent appealable ban".
- threatofrain 4y agoI don’t get the ability to appeal. My Twitter account is permanently suspended and the appeals process is blocked for me. I have maybe tweeted once or twice years ago. I don’t get any explanation for why the appeals process doesn’t work for me or what’s wrong with my account.