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Twitter and (not so) Free Speech.
2 years ago
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Yep, Twitter banned me after I retweeted a post on how to fix the system...this is what I retweeted...
"How to actually fix the system... There, fixed it for you... "
And I added a picture of a guillotine. No groups, no law agencies, no politicians, no parties...just what you read and the picture...
I have retweeted similar tweets over the past year...however, I had just posted that an officer should go to jail for life, for purposely running over a suspect who had been knocked down.
The repsondant became aggressive. I, in turn, simply said that if he support and officer purposely running over a down suspect, then he would have supported what the Nazis guards at the death camps did...(for which I was NOT banned for!)
Not more than 2 minutes later, my account was suspended. I have sent letters out to various sources to reach Elon Musk...Who knows what will happen...
I just want everyone to know what Twitter is really like.
Here is the correspondence to Elon Musk, pass it around if you want...enjoy the reading....
********
Please, get this to Elon Musk, as it greatly affects his ethical stance on Freedom of Speech. I do not have a personal email address.
RE: Twitter Support Team Violating Freedom of speech (Copy and paste from Twitter help center)
Per the email sent me by Twitter Support <support@twitter.com>, I am appealing and creating a new case in regard to the suspension in case 032543675.
" Hello Kit Dragon θΔ,
Your account, kitsdragonsoul has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules.
Specifically, for:
Violating our rules against violent speech.
You may not threaten, incite, glorify, or express a desire for harm or violence.
Kit Dragon θΔ
kitsdragonsoul
How to actually fix the system... There, fixed it for you... https://[...] https://[...]
Note that if you attempt to evade a suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts. If you wish to appeal this suspension, please contact our support team.
If you have an active Twitter Blue subscription, it will not be automatically canceled by Twitter. To cancel your Twitter Blue subscription, follow these instructions. "
"What is not a violation of this policy?
We allow expressions of violent speech when there is no clear abusive or violent context, such as (but not limited to) hyperbolic and consensual speech between friends, or during discussion of video games and sporting events.
We also allow certain cases of figures of speech, satire, or artistic expression when the context is expressing a viewpoint rather than instigating actionable violence or harm.
We make sure to evaluate and understand the context behind the conversation before taking action."
My quote, "How to actually fix the system...and the adding of a picture of a guillotine is not a "clear abusive or violent context...". It is a fact of history that when the French Revolution ended, many people were legally executed. This is a historical fact, not a call to actionable violence or harm. The citizens of France did not execute the treasonist; the new government did. Nowhere did I call for anyone to take any action.
To imply that I did violates my artistic expression and HISTORICAL FACT. Furthermore, the words, "the system" does not indicate any human being. No people were named, no groups were named, no parties were named...only "the system." That is a broad artistic stroke much akin to the "Gadsdon flag" or the original flag of the newly formed American republic.
To drive this point home, I leave you with a quote from the Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."
Your actions violate your own policies. There was NO Threat...NO inciting...NO Glorifying, or expressing a desire to harm or violence. The people have the Right and Duty (legal terms as per Blacks Law Dictionary 10th Ed.Pg 1519, 17c:3 and Pg 615, 13c:1 respectively) to "throw off such Government and provide new Guards for future security." Dec. of Indp.
How a newly formed government would punish traitors is precisely what this Tweet was about. It is based on HISTORICAL EVENTS that shaped a nation after its revolution.
Your state that I glorified does not meet the Merriam-Webster definition of Glorify.
glorify
verb
glo·ri·fy ˈglȯr-ə-ˌfī
glorified; glorifying
Synonyms of glorify
transitive verb
1
a
: to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration
b
: to elevate to celestial glory
2
: to light up brilliantly
Chandeliers glorified the entire room.
3
a
: to represent as glorious : EXTOL
a song glorifying romantic love
b
: to cause to be or seem to be better than the actual condition
the new position is just a glorified version of the old stockroom job
4
: to give glory to (as in worship)
Statements made by your owner, Elon Musk, under your narrow view, get him banned.
Restore my account.
CC:
Media
Elon Musk
Tesla Human Resource Management to get to Elon Musk
"How to actually fix the system... There, fixed it for you... "
And I added a picture of a guillotine. No groups, no law agencies, no politicians, no parties...just what you read and the picture...
I have retweeted similar tweets over the past year...however, I had just posted that an officer should go to jail for life, for purposely running over a suspect who had been knocked down.
The repsondant became aggressive. I, in turn, simply said that if he support and officer purposely running over a down suspect, then he would have supported what the Nazis guards at the death camps did...(for which I was NOT banned for!)
Not more than 2 minutes later, my account was suspended. I have sent letters out to various sources to reach Elon Musk...Who knows what will happen...
I just want everyone to know what Twitter is really like.
Here is the correspondence to Elon Musk, pass it around if you want...enjoy the reading....
********
Please, get this to Elon Musk, as it greatly affects his ethical stance on Freedom of Speech. I do not have a personal email address.
RE: Twitter Support Team Violating Freedom of speech (Copy and paste from Twitter help center)
Per the email sent me by Twitter Support <support@twitter.com>, I am appealing and creating a new case in regard to the suspension in case 032543675.
" Hello Kit Dragon θΔ,
Your account, kitsdragonsoul has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules.
Specifically, for:
Violating our rules against violent speech.
You may not threaten, incite, glorify, or express a desire for harm or violence.
Kit Dragon θΔ
kitsdragonsoul
How to actually fix the system... There, fixed it for you... https://[...] https://[...]
Note that if you attempt to evade a suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts. If you wish to appeal this suspension, please contact our support team.
If you have an active Twitter Blue subscription, it will not be automatically canceled by Twitter. To cancel your Twitter Blue subscription, follow these instructions. "
"What is not a violation of this policy?
We allow expressions of violent speech when there is no clear abusive or violent context, such as (but not limited to) hyperbolic and consensual speech between friends, or during discussion of video games and sporting events.
We also allow certain cases of figures of speech, satire, or artistic expression when the context is expressing a viewpoint rather than instigating actionable violence or harm.
We make sure to evaluate and understand the context behind the conversation before taking action."
My quote, "How to actually fix the system...and the adding of a picture of a guillotine is not a "clear abusive or violent context...". It is a fact of history that when the French Revolution ended, many people were legally executed. This is a historical fact, not a call to actionable violence or harm. The citizens of France did not execute the treasonist; the new government did. Nowhere did I call for anyone to take any action.
To imply that I did violates my artistic expression and HISTORICAL FACT. Furthermore, the words, "the system" does not indicate any human being. No people were named, no groups were named, no parties were named...only "the system." That is a broad artistic stroke much akin to the "Gadsdon flag" or the original flag of the newly formed American republic.
To drive this point home, I leave you with a quote from the Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."
Your actions violate your own policies. There was NO Threat...NO inciting...NO Glorifying, or expressing a desire to harm or violence. The people have the Right and Duty (legal terms as per Blacks Law Dictionary 10th Ed.Pg 1519, 17c:3 and Pg 615, 13c:1 respectively) to "throw off such Government and provide new Guards for future security." Dec. of Indp.
How a newly formed government would punish traitors is precisely what this Tweet was about. It is based on HISTORICAL EVENTS that shaped a nation after its revolution.
Your state that I glorified does not meet the Merriam-Webster definition of Glorify.
glorify
verb
glo·ri·fy ˈglȯr-ə-ˌfī
glorified; glorifying
Synonyms of glorify
transitive verb
1
a
: to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration
b
: to elevate to celestial glory
2
: to light up brilliantly
Chandeliers glorified the entire room.
3
a
: to represent as glorious : EXTOL
a song glorifying romantic love
b
: to cause to be or seem to be better than the actual condition
the new position is just a glorified version of the old stockroom job
4
: to give glory to (as in worship)
Statements made by your owner, Elon Musk, under your narrow view, get him banned.
Restore my account.
CC:
Media
Elon Musk
Tesla Human Resource Management to get to Elon Musk
But then, Twitter was always lame, and only more so post Musk. You should be happy to be rid of it.
As to hinting at violence...Madam Guillotine was a LEGAL method of execution...ONLY the guilty criminals would fear her employment...guess I struck a nerve.