fucking twitter

[solarbird]

Guess who has a Twitter ban?

I'm appealing since it was clearly the algorithm, and the pissing-me-off part of that is that I was quoting shit rightists were saying about abortion as health care. Yes, what I was talking about was misogynist as fuck, because these are fucking fascists who want women who aren't tradwife doormats to die.

But they get to post that shit on Twitter and it's okay, but if I quote them, suddenly I'm... a harasser?

Which is what the algorithm decided I was. And the thing is: I don't care about this individual tweet. I'd be fine with deleting it, whatever.

EXCEPT that by doing so, in the explicit wording of their deletion option, if I delete it, then I also agree that I was engaging in harassment of a targeted group, which WOW FUCK YOU NO, TWITTER. I am several of the fucking targeted groups, you shitpile of a system.

I appealed and my appeal was automatically rejected. I've appealed again. It's been a day, I imagine it could be a few more days. I'm hoping this goes to an actual person but I don't know if it will, or even whether I'll get some fuckhead of a fascist who is just fine with people like me being knocked off the platform.

Goddamn this is enraging.

Comments

[dewline]

...dammit.

Rage and empathy with you here...

[kathmandu]

"The algorithm" is known to be tilted to shelter right-wingers, on purpose.

Sympathies and good luck.

[solarbird]

Trying to figure out what I do when (if, I suppose) they reject my appeal. Really not sure.

[jessie_c]

And strangely enough, the algorithm ignores complaints about racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic fascists. I'm currently upwards of a hundred complaints since they've implemented the new, more annoying complaint system that the system says didn't break the rules despite having blatantly broken the rules.

One rule for we, one rule for thee.

[solarbird]

Yeah, I report all sorts of shit that as far as I know never gets acted upon ever. :/

[jenk]

Did you ever get an update on the appeal?

[solarbird]

12 days and counting!

Anna reposts the help request every couple of days on Twitter and I repost it on Facebook daily. I'm thinking at this point that there's going to be a timeout followed by another auto-denial.

At that point I might re-re-appeal and when that fails (or I decide not to) then I'll delete the tweet and post one last time saying what happened and that's it for that account.

The key thing here is: I don't care about the tweet. It's just one more quoting-the-fascists tweet. Whatever. What I care about is "I agree that I broke Twitter rules by engaging in harassment." Which I FUCKING WELL DID NOT. But to do one, you have to do the other.

The account I'm using now is minjonet[underscore]blue. It has a lot of French to confound the algorithms. And that's specifically underscore, not dash.