I got banned for life from Twitter for tweeting "sheesh, I'd kill myself if I was still programming in java after age 50" (or something like that -- I've since deleted the tweet and can't remember the wording, but the gist is correct.)
This was viewed as "encouraging self harm" so I got a lifetime ban.
Yes, it was my second offense. A week or two earlier I had tweeted "I wish anti-vaxxers would go jump off a bridge". So that was two strikes and I got the lifetime ban instantly -- within less than two seconds -- while also being informed that my lifetime ban had been "after careful review".
In any case, I'm a real human being and I can't use Twitter anymore.
So the bots run free, but my obviously human account got a lifetime ban for tweets that could not possibly be seriously construed as dangerous. Honestly, the tweets are barely noteworthy. Also, I had something like 28 followers and I was little more than an occasional reply guy.
Also, aside from the bots, the amount of absolutely ridiculously bad taste stuff I see tweeted that doesn't result in a lifetime ban is astonishing.
Supposedly I can appeal my ban but I haven't done so because I'm dead certain that if I do I will just get an even more solid lifetime ban, along with all my personal details stored in their list of atrocious actors. I guess I'm holding out for Elon Musk to be forced to buy Twitter and for some changes to take place.
Twitter's moderation, like every major such website, is a Kafkaesque nightmare with little transparency or review. It would all be fine if they just deleted individual posts. Then it'd be no big deal on an occasional bad call. But nuking accounts in this slipshod way is terrible.
This was viewed as "encouraging self harm" so I got a lifetime ban.
Yes, it was my second offense. A week or two earlier I had tweeted "I wish anti-vaxxers would go jump off a bridge". So that was two strikes and I got the lifetime ban instantly -- within less than two seconds -- while also being informed that my lifetime ban had been "after careful review".
In any case, I'm a real human being and I can't use Twitter anymore.
So the bots run free, but my obviously human account got a lifetime ban for tweets that could not possibly be seriously construed as dangerous. Honestly, the tweets are barely noteworthy. Also, I had something like 28 followers and I was little more than an occasional reply guy.
Also, aside from the bots, the amount of absolutely ridiculously bad taste stuff I see tweeted that doesn't result in a lifetime ban is astonishing.
Supposedly I can appeal my ban but I haven't done so because I'm dead certain that if I do I will just get an even more solid lifetime ban, along with all my personal details stored in their list of atrocious actors. I guess I'm holding out for Elon Musk to be forced to buy Twitter and for some changes to take place.