Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Call for screenshots showing tweets the got people #LockedOutofTwitter

Does anyone else wonder who is being censored on Twitter and why?

 Having been locked out of Twitter for some time (over using a negative vaccine theory to make a humorous point in reply to someone else  - see screenshot below.), this author wonders what other tweets have gotten people locked out of their accounts. 

Jordan Peterson was recently locked out of his account. President Trump, Steven Crowder, James Woods, The Babylon Bee and The New York Post have all seen that screen but they have large audiences that can pressure Twitter into bringing them back. What happens to the rest of us? This author simply stopped using Twitter after the appeal was denied, because Twitter needs to get a sense of humor.

 It is annoying sometimes - say, when a news story or referenced video clip is hosted on Twitter and - there's the locked out screen again. So, do others just delete the tweet and go back on Twitter? Do regular people's appeals get the lockout overturned? Do they go to other platforms or do they just say to themselves "one less timesucker for me - it's a win-win!"  

If any of my readers might also have been locked out of their Twitter accounts for political - or unknown reasons and would like them to be included in a book, (Working Title #LockedOutofTwitter) please send a screenshot of your locked out page that has the tweet you were locked out for included to wakingdragon@hotmail.com with #LockedOutofTwitter as the subject line.

If your tweet contained evident evil, i.e. porn, excessive foul language obscenity and etc., you can keep that bad boy to yourself.  But if you were only posting something that was humorous or truthful but politically incorrect, tweets that mention ideas/stories/things that big tech has decided are not to be shared - as though by removing people from their platform those people will cease to exist or to share their opinions.

Not knowing if any screenshots will be received or if there will be enough to fill a book or if Amazon or any other digital platform would allow such a book to be sold through their site, there will be no compensation offered except the opportunity to have that tweet seen - if there are enough responses to make this worth the effort of collecting them to publish.

This might be a stupid idea.  No one may see this post or no one may want to share their screenshots, but curiosity is getting the upper hand, so, why not ask? If you or someone you know was locked out of twitter and asked to delete their tweet, send them my way and tell them I want to know if they deleted it or just stopped using Twitter.

Please feel free to tweet this blog post as well, since I cannot. ;) 

Thank you.

"Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." ~ Proverbs 23:23

And, just as an FYI, I did file an appeal. My appeal was denied - because twitter has no sense of humor.






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