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They are reading through years of tweets to find something to alert on so people get put in Twitmo. Example: Last week the Freeway Blogger was suspended:
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This week Rude Pundit.
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The Rude Pundit
@rudepundit
Apparently, you can get locked out of
for calling Ann Coulter the c-word (which apparently you can't use any longer) 7 years ago. So kudos to whichever asshole (I think that's still okay) sussed that one out.
8:39 AM · Sep 12, 2019
Someone went through 7 YEARS of his posts to find one offensive post that they could alert on. This is how rightwing trolls try to silence our voices. We need more voices, more resistors, more protestors. Join Twitter. Raise your voices. But watch your back. I have been Twitmo'd twice in the past 6 months.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)The point is they are scrutinizing his every word to find ammo to silence him. And they have been doing it like crazy to Democratic resisters' accounts.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Ouch!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)For those not familiar with the term:
The noosphere, is a philosophical concept developed and popularized foremostly by the biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky. Vernadsky defined the noosphere as the planetary sphere of reason.[1] [2] The noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development, its defining factor being the development of humankind's rational activities. [3]The word derives from the Greek ?ό?? ("mind", "reason" or "to spin the thread of the mind" and ???ῖ?? ("sphere" , in lexical analogy to "atmosphere" and "biosphere".[4] The concept cannot be accredited to a single author. The founding authors Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin developed two related but starkly different concepts, the former being grounded in the geological sciences and the latter, in theology. Both conceptions of the noosphere share the common thesis that together human reason and the scientific thought has and will continue to create the next evolutionary geological layer. This geological layer is part of the evolutionary chain.[5] [6] Second generation authors, predominantly of Russian origin, have further developed the Vernadskian concept, creating the related concepts: noocenosis and noocenology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
I could take issue with that view in some ways, but only from the vantage point of Eastern philosophy. Otherwise, it is valid to me as a category and descriptor. It has its pros and cons, but it is useful to Western modes of thinking.
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)inappropriate language too. If not, then discrimination by Twitter.
And, what's to stop someone from using inappropriate language and then discontinuing the account, and creating a new account, doing the same thing, endless looping?
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Jack the CEO was invited to the WH to hear Trump complain about bias against the MAGATs. The attacks on liberals' accounts seemed to increase after that.
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)or say whatever he wants. I will never respect or use this company...never.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)like almost all politicians, and many celebrities, gives you a LOT more leeway. Sadly, the Rude Pundit does not. (Other big accounts that do not are George Conway and RVA Wonk/Caroline Orr)
You can go to see resister Tony Posnanski with his blue check mark call Trump and other Republicans the F word multiple times per day.
From not too long ago today:
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SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)into, and anyone can get too (a blue checkmark)...take care!
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)not the war on words. I don't give damn about the words but if I have to be "polite" to smash their ass, so be it. I'm not going to let them deflect the point toward nonsense; that's what they do best. Once the beast is dispensed with, let it rip.
dweller
(23,661 posts)that was a year or more old ... 1st time for me, as hate speech or some such ...
i had to go to the link from FB to see the post as i had forgotten it...
i had posted a pic of the proud boys as supporters at a trump rally 😁
anyway i protested the removal kinda for the heck of it...
FB reinstated it 😳
✌🏼
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)get of Twitter, Facebook, etc. They have different sets of rules for different people. Orange asshole should have been banned from Twitter years ago with all the horseshit he spews.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)The media and the right interpret it as acceptance.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It was on a day when I was watching twitter for hurricane info for hours.
Has anyone else had it hit at weird times, or times when they were using Twitter a lot?
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)It hurts more than it helps
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)if you get into an extended disagreement with the "Alternative Facts" crowd and/or use profanity, you can get hit with this new type of shadowban - people won't see your replies/tweets if they don't follow you. You need to hit "See More Replies" to view them - and, most people will not do that.
I know a TON of resistance accounts both large & small that have gotten hit with this. I can only think my Reply Deboosting Ban is due to snarky replies to Trump and a few other Republican politicians as I try to avoid arguments and profanity on Twitter.
And, I have seen MAGA types hit with this ban as well, but it affects more resisters because many tend to (like me) use sarcasm when responding to Trump and others. Other than AOC, I don't think any Democrat gets nearly as much attention as Trump.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,630 posts)Or do they operate under a different set of rules?
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Better than bothering since most are bots. One day, I opened all the positive posts on a Trump thread and found none were real people. Just hollow shells. Funny to see the fake people they created to prop up the BIG EGO.