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Twitter and Me

I recently got a twitter account to see how long it would take for twitter to censor me.  It didn’t take long.

I filed an appeal telling them that I did not violate the rules but merely expressed an opinion that their algorithm was designed to censor.  I told them that they really needed more tolerant algorithms.

Freedom is a foreign concept to these snowflakes.

 

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Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 6:09am

Well done, Donald! Well done.

Foxfier
Admin
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 6:14am

Thank you.

Sad but predictable how they’ve proceeded from merely demanding that women be men (generally caddish men) in order to be “real” women, to declaring a predator in a dress is more ‘authentically’ female than a mother, isn’t it?

Simon James
Simon James
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 6:29am

Try “whiteness is a mental illness” and see how that goes.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 6:33am

I hope to join you in happy suspension, Donald!

https://twitter.com/Saul33102118/status/1450439201976164363

If every authentic orthodox Catholic were to stand up and post on Twitter that transgenderism is a mental illness, then Twitter would have to suspend tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions. The only way to push back against this culture is to push back!

I wonder how long it will take for me to again be banished.

Frank
Frank
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 6:52am

LQC- “liked” and retweeted. Bravo, indeed.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 6:53am

Evergreen and relevant again.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 7:21am

Sic Semper tyrannus

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 7:52am

To Twitter executives;

“You who are deaf, listen, you who are blind, look and see!” Is 42:18

That’s about it for the scoundrels who call sin, virtue and virtue an abomination. They are without a compass. In their blind pursuits to build their utopia they eat dung and call it rich food. So be it.
LQC is on to something.
Great idea.

I have never joined Twitter..but today I will and I will give them “the” truth.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 7:52am

From Zerohedge blog.

CNN/Stelter made the mistake of letting someone speak the truth on air.

Bari Weiss:

“Where can I start? Well, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad.

When you’re not able to say out loud and in public there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.

When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad,” Weiss said.

“When you’re not able to say the Hunter Biden laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad.

When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called progress instead of segregation, the world has gone mad. There are dozens of examples.”

Don L
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 8:05am

I had a lifetime learning lesson from a man named Pope John Paul II, when he responded to what I, and most Catholics, considered at the time to be a very grave evil (Heh…forgot what it was) JPII’s public answer to it was, “leave it be, that’ll die of its own accord.” I was both astonished and disappointed, but watched it closely and slowly but surely, it did. I suspect, Don, that this censorship game and the twitter’s of the world will also follow suit, because man knows truth must come out one way or another. We pray God doesn’t require martyrdom from us all first.

Bob Kurland
Admin
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 8:33am

I must be strange…I have never tweeted, nor responded to tweets because I have never joined Twitter. The notion that your idea has to be limited to 65 (??) characters is abhorrent to me. Why don’t we boycott Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and all the agents of the Evil One? Surely there are enough people of good conscience to make a dent in their revenues by not using them. Or are there?

Stephen Earl Dalton
Stephen Earl Dalton
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 8:46am

I recently got out of a 30 day ban from Facebook. They claimed I was harassing people. Not true! I merely stated my opinions about certain actions by some people, but I never chased them over the net like Mark Shea did to Joseph D’ hippolito.some years ago. These folks just can’t take criticism of their sacred cows.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 8:53am

– 1) Actually twitter is apparently really popular in Japan (who, of course using their language, do not find the character limit much of an issue).

2) Here’s just a plain depressing reality to remember: There are 7 bil people on Earth. 5 bil+ have internet access. Let’s assume 99% of the world are people of good conscience. That still leaves 50 mil twitter users. Estimates that I found list twitter’s revenue as $4+ bil last year. Even with just 50 mil users, that’s just $80 they need from each user.

And actually I went ahead and looked it up. Twitter claims 400 mil users. Again with a world of 5 bil internet users, that’s just 8% of the internet population.

Which is something I’ve heard from more than a few stat minders. The simple fact is, the population (and wealth) is so large now, you just don’t need wide appeal to “make” it anymore. You can create a product aimed at a very narrow niche and still be successful.

So you can’t get “enough” people of good conscience to make a dent in anyone’s revenue – because there’s a decent chance they find just enough bad people to keep themselves afloat.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 8:57am

I’m so jealous! I guess I need to step up my “hate speech”!

Dale Price
Dale Price
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 9:20am

I twittered for about four months (?) or so.
It was bad for me, so I stopped.

In some ways better than Facebook, but overall the same long-term effect: living in the echo chamber of uncongenial ideology does not make me happier or better.

I already know things are swirling down the drain. Thus, there’s no point in hanging around with people who have convinced themselves that drowning in the undertow is a good thing.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 9:58am

Oh! I should probably also post this classic column.
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=41853

Dale Price
Dale Price
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 10:07am

I do miss people like Tim Pool, who are great sanity checks. But I can’t live in a D+43 bubble for all that long, notwithstanding.

David WS
David WS
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 12:37pm

Great job. Smash that Overton window.

Ezabelle
Ezabelle
Tuesday, October 19, AD 2021 1:51pm

Well done Donald. Funny how they allow vile and profanity ridden replies to tweets.

Fr. John Higgins
Friday, October 22, AD 2021 12:14pm

I have had to be very sneaky with Twitter. I got thrown off last year and snuck back in a couple of months ago. Now I have to speak their “double speak” and talk in special code, like Catholics in Nazi Germany or Communist Mexico.
Viva Cristo Rey!

Ron B
Ron B
Wednesday, November 3, AD 2021 12:11pm

I was suspended for the same thing. I reported about 2 dozen posts that said “Christianity is a mental illness” and nothing ever happened to them.

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