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This is RushBabe49, Reporting From Twitter Jail
Yes, you heard correctly. Early Thursday, I was informed by Twitter authorities that my “account was locked” due to a post/reply that “violated our rules against hateful speech.” In that reply to a post from an Israeli account, I said how I thought that terrorists should be treated by the Israelis. My reply was explicit, and the Twitter censors deemed it hateful. They locked my account for a full week.
Now, most of us are quite familiar with which group of people/authors are most likely to reference and object to what they deem to be “hate speech.” That would be people on the Left. Those are the ones who ran Twitter 1.0, censored the speech of conservatives, and de-platformed the sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump.
It seems that, even after Elon Musk bought Twitter, took it private, and fired half the staff, some of those 1.0 censors remain to silence conservatives who tell the truth on X/Twitter. I told the truth in my reply, and the censors locked my account for a full week.
I gave that some thought, and it occurred to me that my account was locked right before the most momentous election in my long lifetime. I will not be able to post, comment, follow, or unfollow on Twitter until after the election. The other two times I got sent to “jail” for so-called “hateful speech,” I was only suspended for 48 hours. This week-long suspension is very suspicious, as it silences me during the election. I would not be surprised if this was not intentional on the part of the 1.0 censors, and I wonder if other Twitter accounts are being treated in a similar fashion.
But the thing that makes me the most suspicious is the fact that the offending comment was made TEN DAYS AGO. They waited until Thursday the 31st to suspend me. I wonder if they did that on purpose, to put me out of action around the election.
Knowing the Left, that would be exactly what they would do. It seems that I do have some freedom of speech/action in spite of my suspension, though. Let’s try an experiment here. How about my followers and readers here, who have Twitter accounts, post over there and link to this post so I can tell my story to my over 7,000 Twitter followers? Who is willing to risk their own suspension to get the truth out?
I admire all the followers of my blog, who have stuck with me for 24 years. Seeing as next week’s election could determine life or death for America as founded, let’s be brave. I plan to link to this post on my account at Truth Social. Let’s Go!!!!!
[Originally posted at RushBabe49.com]
Published in Politics
Is there a reason you didn’t include the contents of your tweet in this telling?
That is really terrible.
It looks as if the left still has some embedded moles in Twitter. Elon, you ain’t finished the job yet . . .
Elon fired a bunch, but there were probably tons of backdoors built in that lets external actors do mischief.
The only time I ever got thrown in Twitter jail was for 12 hours where I could just read it but I couldn’t post. I politely ask a guy to kill himself. One of his friends told him to report me. lol I mean I wasn’t going to insist on it. It was up to him. lol
Since Elon’s acquisition I’ve run into Twitter censorship twice, both times for what Twitter deemed advocating violence. It was overturned on appeal in one instance, sustained in the other: The phrase “destroy Hamas” is apparently objectionable.
In both cases my account remained open but the distribution of my comments was restricted. My guess is that someone flagged the content as offensive, and that that’s what prompted the Twitter censoring mechanism to render its judgment.
I had a particularly blunt anti-trans, anti-Hamas tagline in my Twitter bio at one point — not violent, but certainly unfriendly — and I think I’m still paying a price in terms of visibility. Or maybe the fact that I’m not posting very much, here, on Twitter, or anywhere else, accounts for the lack of response I’ve had in recent months.
If Trump wins (as I am cautiously hopeful that he will), I’ll probably start writing more again. If he loses… well, that’s what the bourbon is for.
We have a generation-and-a-half of Americans who are completely ill-equipped to operate in a world in which speech is a fundamental freedom. On top of that we are now a society ruled by HR apparatchiks in government and corporate bureaucracy and the sorts who thrive in that milieu.
Schools don’t teach that discursive reason should predominate. Instead truth and even personal identity and belonging is provided by the officially approved zeitgeist. Everything outside of that is not just factually wrong but immoral and personally threatening.
Elon Musk should fund an education program that restores that understanding and also offers a rigorous certification in First Amendment law and philosophy that employers can rely upon for hiring in editorial positions.
I recommended public hanging for traitors. That is the standard punishment for traitors, isn’t it?
I’ve thought so, but when I asked here on Ricochet a while back why there was no discussion of execution for a guy who sold state secrets to China, several commentors told me that that isn’t a thing.
Not when the perp’s name is Clinton, anyway. (Either of them.)