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Re: An account was suspended

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Post by pc86 »

breck wrote: post #33
_madmax_ wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point in time I think I am comfortable saying the web is more detrimental to humans than Television ever was.

If you just stick to the sites that are public domain without ads, it's an amazing place. And of course the "purple app" that everyone is talking about ( https://www.farcaster.xyz/ ) is incredible.

I mean that's sort of like saying that TV is great as long as you stick to public access channel available over-the-air from 10:30AM to noon. Isn't that describing an extremely small niche of website? Almost everything has ads. A lot of sites have login walls, many (maybe even most?) have paywalls, especially once you step away from personal blogs.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by AlfeG »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #15
michaelmcdonald wrote: post #2

Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.

Yep. My account got suspended a few years ago. But to be honest, it was a blessing in disguise. Twitter for me was a huge time sink, even though I followed really interesting people talking about things I was really interesting. But once I got a forced detox, I realised I just gained back hours a week to do other things. Get off Twitter. Even better, turn off that TV.

I got my Amazon account deleted. I have old credit card linked to AWS with billing address in one city of Ukraine. Few weeks later after city been occupied I got message from Amazon that my account is locked due to sanctions. They give me ability to comply by removing offending credit card. But I can't do this because account is locked. I've got zero human response only broken scripts from support that I need to login and change my details.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by bigsparky »

hk__2 wrote: post #50
andirk wrote: post #22

I commented on a Fauci video where he said every1 will likely eventually be exposed to the virus. I said "and eventually we will all die" which was marked as misinformation and I was cancelled.

That was on YouTube. This thread is related to Twitter, where you cannot report a tweet for "misinformation".

Yes you can

"Misleading Info Reporting Flow - Some of you can report Tweets for containing misinformation. This is currently available in limited testing to some people in Australia, Brazil, the Philippines, South Korea, Spain, and the US, though we are exploring how to expand. These reports are reviewed and acted on independently from other Tweet reporting flows (e.g. for abuse), as this test flow is used to inform our misinformation-related strategy and operations. "

https://help.twitter.com/en/resources/addressing-misleading-...

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by bell-cot »

Sad, but...

Other than cyber-utopian hype, social media sales pitches, and the human love for "a deal too good to be true...while it lasts", is there any reason to expect competent, reliable customer service from any large social media company which is based on free accounts? Let alone a company which shows ~no evidence of being able to break even (financially, over time)?

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by coffeeblack »

mschuster91 wrote: post #8
michaelmcdonald wrote: post #2

Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.

Even blue checkmarks don't help against trolls, far right and griefers running mass-report attacks. The problem at its core is that Twitter refuses to hire appropriate levels of moderation staff for the scale it has, and that it does nothing against raid instigators. Reddit at least has subreddit mods take care of most of the bullshit and at least the large subreddit mods have direct connections to Reddit, and Reddit…

> Twitter and FB both learned the hard way to not ignore these

Are there actual cases (plural)? I only know one lawyer and one case where that happened and was decided by the BGH (federal court).

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by [deleted] »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #67

I'm a big fan of Ben Thompson, and I'm not necessarily on Twitter's side here, but this to me seems more like a case of Ben whining about "Spam is when someone else sends it". From his own words, this "Stratechery Interviews" account was a new account that only sent out tweets of links from multiple locations around the world. In other words, the only thing really distinguishing it from spam on a technical level is t…

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Re: An account was suspended

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Post by ipqk »

_madmax_ wrote: post #27
alfiedotwtf wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. My account got suspended a few years ago. But to be honest, it was a blessing in disguise. Twitter for me was a huge time sink, even though I followed really interesting people talking about things I was really interesting. But once I got a forced detox, I realised I just gained back hours a week to do other things. Get off Twitter. Even better, turn off that TV.

At this point in time I think I am comfortable saying the web is more detrimental to humans than Television ever was.

I remember when Arab Spring was happening and thinking how amazing social media was going to be.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by psychphysic »

breck wrote: post #31
alfiedotwtf wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. My account got suspended a few years ago. But to be honest, it was a blessing in disguise. Twitter for me was a huge time sink, even though I followed really interesting people talking about things I was really interesting. But once I got a forced detox, I realised I just gained back hours a week to do other things. Get off Twitter. Even better, turn off that TV.

I find Twitter amazing. (though I'm currently suspended again - https://twitter.com/breckyunits ). The trick is not to have a smart phone. When I'm coding I can pop in and out of Twitter. But then when I close the lid I'm unplugged.

But why do you keep getting suspended?
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