Twitter trolls are targeting liberals

[Generic Other]

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
@Twitter

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]

1. They've been doing this to women, black women and WOC in particular, for years.

[stonecutter357]

2. Wow The Rude Pundit called Ann Coulter the c-word ?

[Generic Other]

5. 7 years ago!

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]

3. The era of abstract battles in the Noosphere!

[Generic Other]

7. Something around our necks?

Ouch!

[Newest Reality]

11. I hadn't thought of it that way. Thanks! :)

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 νόος ("mind", "reason" or "to spin the thread of the mind&quot and σφαῖρα ("sphere&quot , 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]

4. Works both ways. Perhaps finally rump himself will be banned for using curse words or ...

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]

6. You really think they'd ever ban old motor mouth?

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]

12. No, of course not. Twitter ruined its reputation by allowing a person like this to basically do...

or say whatever he wants. I will never respect or use this company...never.

[NewJeffCT]

16. Accounts that are "Verified" and have the blue check mark next to their name

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]

23. Thanks for the blurb on the 'blue checkmarks' by their twitter tags...didn't know this...I looked...

into, and anyone can get too (a blue checkmark)...take care!

[Ms. Toad]

19. They have been clear they will not.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/twitter-says-it-will-start-labeling-tweets-from-influential-government-officials-who-break-its-rules.html

[defacto7]

8. Choose your battles and beware. Win the war on fascism

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]

9. someone flagged a post on my FB

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]

10. I've seen this mentioned by several posters in the last couple of weeks.

[rownesheck]

13. Better yet

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]

14. Except that we mustn't stay silent

The media and the right interpret it as acceptance.

[NightWatcher]

15. Same happened to me last week.

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]

17. Twittter needs to be shut down for a year or more

It hurts more than it helps

[NewJeffCT]

18. The big thing now is "Reply Deboosting"

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]

22. This site can tell if they are doing that to you

https://shadowban.eu/

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Can our side do the same thing to RWers?

Or do they operate under a different set of rules?

[Generic Other]

21. I block the MAGATs

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.