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TLDR: don’t act like a c@&t online. And if you did, delete it.
TLDR: don’t act like a c@&t online. And if you did, delete it.
Though that said, most law enforcement has a statute of limitations on crimes except the very worst of them like killing another human being. If you're going to go after a fossilized tweet, just remove it, locking accounts after that long seems rather silly unless they are posting new content against the rules.
I started using Twitter back in 2008. Before the age of smart phones Talk about erasing the past. I dearly hope knowledge of what came before iPhone and Android isn't washed over like all the non-Apple 8-bit computers.
If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), us normal human beings need the right to appeal, public auditing, bright line rules, and due process rights.
It's not wrong for Twitter to have rules to protect the weak from the strong, and individuals from the mob, but it needs to be accountable and above board about all of it or it will make the problem far worse.
EDIT:
Just to provide an example, here are a few ways this notification could have been so much better.
1) List the specific rules violated. Link to the public process for rule review and adoption.
2) Link to ids and contact information for any human beings who made the decision.
3) Link to code and data sets for any algorithm behind the decision.
4) Provide and link to an appeal procedure instead of just a compliance procedure.
Imagine how much better that openness would be for Twitter's users. (While somewhat onerous for Twitter the company.)
Getting banned for calling someone (a high rank politician!!!) a whore is the state of the internet in 2019. Thing is, he's suggesting Mastodon as an alternative... there you would not only get banned for calling a woman a whore, you'd probably get doxxed and then swatted too.
> Getting banned for calling someone (a high rank politician!!!) a whore Also calling them a 'cunt'. Attitudes like the above are why ordinary men and women don't want to become politicians - it's assumed to be OK to insult them in any way. Why not just call Palin a hypocrite? You should be able to criticise politicians. However if you want better politicians, screaming that they're cunts and whores instead of commun…
I started using Twitter back in 2008. Before the age of smart phones Talk about erasing the past. I dearly hope knowledge of what came before iPhone and Android isn't washed over like all the non-Apple 8-bit computers.
Unaccountable censorship of expression by our main communication providers is incompatible with Democracy. Communication is often a natural monopoly, and you can't just "start a competitor" to Twitter and have the market fix the problem (see gab.ai). If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), us normal human beings need…
(Edit: And to be clear, I would have been a-okay with Twitter having banned the user at the time, for the content in question!)
Seems more like twitter banned the author 9 years too late.