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#31

This is the same when people message a youtuber and expect some reply - they can't see the hundreds and thousands of messages people get and still need to produce youtube content (or organize a conference) - "I can deal with the mails I get, why can't they?"

But this isn't some random person like it is with someone messaging a youtuber. This is someone they have a previous relationship with, receiving and rejecting proposals, and who they took a specific action against, to block on twitter.

Re: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

#32

Personally I'd walk away, life is too short to care about why a twitter user blocked you. But seeing as this is in the EU, the author could use the GDPR to find out why he was banned.

Out of curiosity, what part of the GDPR would require them to explain the ban-reason?

Just speculating here, but if they're storing his twitter account name, that might well be considered PII for the purposes of the GDPR, so they'd be required to disclose that they've stored it and any related information (like the reason they've stored it)... Also, their email response strongly implies they're storing previous requests - I'm not sure the GDPR covers emails he's sent to them though...

Re: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> author didn't receive an answer He actually did: > Hi Ondrej, > dealing with this is at the bottom of our rather indefinitely long priority list. Don’t expect a swift resolution. > We’d appreciate not being bugged about this again. It seems they did it on purpose and they refuse to at least clarify why. My bet is that they did it for some childish reason and they don't have a courage to admit the mistake. I hope th…

Might not be "on purpose", OP might just be getting caught in some blocklist crossfire. It happened in a very similar way for a different conference here: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/08/twi... If they're in the middle of a Twitter dogpile, they probably wouldn't care too much about one particular guy on a blocklist if several hundred sockpuppet accounts organising on 4chan are all sending th…

Honestly, whether he was caught in a crossfire, intentionally banned, or even received a response meant for someone else, this is still utterly inadmissible. There is no possible situation an email of this sort is acceptable in any sort of professional context, let alone coming from a conference organizer.

Re: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

#35

Personally I'd walk away, life is too short to care about why a twitter user blocked you. But seeing as this is in the EU, the author could use the GDPR to find out why he was banned.

Out of curiosity, what part of the GDPR would require them to explain the ban-reason?

They probably have personal data / personal identifiable information about you when they blocked you and still know about it... And you can ask them what data they have about you.

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You either follow an account that has been banned, or the accounts you follow themselves follow accounts that have been banned. In the other direction, an account that follows you has been banned or they follow accounts that have been banned. @jsconfeu probably use some of the popular lists.

So if I have a banned account I can cause arbitrary people to be banned simply by following them? It doesn't seem like a good idea to give me that power.

Re: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, what part of the GDPR would require them to explain the ban-reason?

They probably have personal data / personal identifiable information about you when they blocked you and still know about it ... And you can ask them what data they have about you.

You think they are keeping a permanent database of twitter block reasons?

Re: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

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When you have an international group of people all speaking English as a second language the conversation can become a bit prickly. There isn't anything obvious here - a bit of complaining but it all seems mild and accurate: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%40jsconfeu%20from%3A0ndras&... Purely guessing here, you might want to avoid tweeting "Stupid fucking white man" at conference organisers. https://twitter.com/0nd…

He didn't tweet that at the organizers. He quoted an article and linked to the article.

Re: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

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When you have an international group of people all speaking English as a second language the conversation can become a bit prickly. There isn't anything obvious here - a bit of complaining but it all seems mild and accurate: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%40jsconfeu%20from%3A0ndras&... Purely guessing here, you might want to avoid tweeting "Stupid fucking white man" at conference organisers. https://twitter.com/0nd…

Did that second tweet get removed? Can’t see the swearing.

Agreed with the language. It’s a constant stream of fussy complaints, and as unfair as it sounds, I would have probably blocked them too after years of the same.

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