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[TEB]

1. That is the truth

[chillfactor]

2. and what you said

is TRUE! Damn twitter!

[flor-de-jasmim]

3. Shades of former Represtat Alan Greyson of FL

Ve

[OKNancy]

4. I've seen ten times worse

Someone is obviously doing mass reporting

[Xipe Totec]

5. I'm sure that flew over like a frozen turkey.

[lastlib]

30. "As God is my witness...." n/t

[DVRacer]

60. Poor Les he really believed it

[lastlib]

63. Mr. Carlson said that line.

Les was probly too stoopid to know either way......

[11 Bravo]

64. That was probably the single funniest episode of any sitcom I've ever seen.

Oh, the humanity!

[lastlib]

66. I wouldn't disagree with you!

[Rorey]

6. Somebody got all butt hurt because you told the truth NT

[SKKY]

7. If you had said, "If you get sick, die quickly." I think you would have been fine...

...and then link to the video of former Congressman Alan Grayson's discourse about that very topic.

[ananda]

13. Or: If you get sick or have a pre-existing condition,

you are on your own.

[BComplex]

8. That's par for the course.

Power in this country....almost ALL of the capital in this country...is owned and controlled by the 1% who do not want any liberal idea to see the light of day. It's a miracle that we all haven't been mowed down by this system, though a great many have.

[dewsgirl]

9. This crap infuriates me, I see tweets like this all the time.

I don't know how their algorithms work, but I've seen much worse stay up.

[onecaliberal]

44. There are awful things on every republican twitter timelines.

I’ve blocked thousands of them.

[dewsgirl]

59. Me too, these people are vile.

[onecaliberal]

62. Liberal media my ass.

[area51]

65. +1 n/t

[mountain grammy]

56. Exactly!

[The Roux Comes First]

10. Wear That With Pride!!

[Beakybird]

11. No it's not true. This is the GOP health care message for the poor and uninsured.

Twitter sucks, but it should have read

The GOP's health care message toward the poor and uninsured is go home and die.

[onecaliberal]

20. Oh please. They have NO PLAN. That is a FACT! They don't care. 250,000 people are dead.

They actually gather people together shoulder to shoulder unmasked when we all know and they all know it could very well sicken people and kill them. The Republican plan is if you get sick, go die.

[Beakybird]

27. Yeah, but if you have $$ like them, they don't want you to die.

[barbtries]

12. that should not have gotten you suspended.

hmph. some asshole reported your tweet apparently.

i would have added and trump is running around the country saying here, get sick.

[onecaliberal]

21. I didn't even get a chance to appeal.

[barbtries]

35. it's weird.

i've posted even more directly, for instance #TrumpIsTryingToKillMe

it's hard to figure why this happened to you.

[onecaliberal]

36. I have tweeted directly to trump right before the 2016 election, "why are you a rapist?"

He blocked me, but I did not get a Twitter time out.

[barbtries]

38. it has to be that someone just reported you

not necessarily for any good reason, probably just a trump bot or human cultist. how long?

[onecaliberal]

39. 12 hours.

[ancianita]

14. If you can appeal it, and if these are your exact words, you can say you were only describing.

Describing what others say should not be censorable.

[onecaliberal]

22. Nope they didn't let me.

[ancianita]

32. Shit. Well, you know they're in the heat of the last few election days.

Much of what gets tweeted that's political can, and when usable, is transferred by certain human accounts to bots for spreading. Maybe Twitter's trying to mitigate what raises the heat in their environment.

I'm not defending censorship, just saying that a private platform has more to gain right now by keeping the heat down than opening wide for freedom of political expression. Platform moderation, if run by humans or AI, can reveal judgment problems in a country this big.

Just sayin'. You've got my sympathies.

[onecaliberal]

37. I've tried going to twitter support and appeal but the buttons are grayed out. I can't click on

Anything.

[ancianita]

46. Yep. That's how its AI is set now. Could be temporary or permanent, but with corporate,

their saying is, "nothing personal, just business."

As if corporate AI exists to shut down the body politic, which I think it's going to do if/when Big Corp completely takes over this govt of, by and for the "consent" of The People.

There's so damn much a Biden administration is gonna have to solve, and social media AI isn't likely at the top of the list.

Along these lines, I'd love for Andrew Yang to be appointed the head of The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a department of the United States government, part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), established by United States Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology. Some Greek (I don't even know if he's a nationalised citizen) Michael Kratsios, Republican and Peter Thiel's former chief of staff, currently leads the administration's efforts on Artificial Intelligence. In his tenure the U.S. joined the Global Partnership on AI. He's also hooked up with the Pentagon. All this is per Wikipedia.

We social media users are a blip on their radar, even if we're still affected.

[Historic NY]

15. You should have said its the "I don't care plan"

[jaxexpat]

16. Twitter has a truth-o-meter and yours didn't pass because.....

everyone knows there is no such thing as a "GOP healthcare plan". You should be more careful in the future about spreading non-facts.
Your sentence: 100 energetic lashes with the wettest of noodles.

[ancianita]

34. Good point. I forgot that AI can be set for that. Thanks.

[Illumination]

17. Sorry...but @ the same time GOOD FOR YOU! I love your Debbie Downer attitude! They probably

can't stand Debbie Downer either! Stay here with us. We need & appreciate rebels like you! Happy November 1st!...

[onecaliberal]

23. Happy November 1st

[paleotn]

18. Seems arbitrary to me...

I've seen vastly worse.

[Harker]

19. Yet Trumpsky fans the flames.

You're not the problem.

[StarryNite]

24. A couple of days ago Facebook closed an account I had.

The trump humpers say all kinds of horrible things. If you report them FB says it didn't violate their rules. Dems can't say much before they close our accounts.

[PatrickforO]

25. Strange they suspended you for that.

That really IS the GOP plan. If you get sick, die.

[PatSeg]

26. Seriously?

That's been around forever.

[onecaliberal]

28. It's fucking ridiculous.

[LAS14]

29. That's from the AS software. Artificial stupidity. nt

[NurseJackie]

33. You forgot the magic disclaimer. You should have started off with "Some people say..."

Or "I've heard it said that..."

[shotten99]

40. #JusticeforButtons is my means of doing the same.

Just because it's a lie doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about Senator Ron Johnson's strangulation of his neighbor's dog, Buttons.

[onecaliberal]

41. I love this!

[WillParkinson]

42. They want the truth?

They can't handle the truth!

[halfulglas]

43. Not Twitter but Facebook

I wasn't suspended but I got a note from Facebook that a post of mine was hidden (I assume that's what it means when you get a notice nobody can see your post notice) when I posted on my daughter's timeline comparing Trump to King George in Hamilton where he sings about love me or I'll kill your families, etc. This was after his balcony act after returning from Walter Reed. I appealed it, but they or the algorithm upheld their decision saying it may promote violence or some such thing. (The violence was on Trump's and his followers' part, not mine.) And the snowflakes claim the social media is unfair to them.

[onecaliberal]

47. Trump supporters are just like trump, they cannot handle any criticism. They're very mentally ill.

It’s frightening.

[grantcart]

45. you should have said "If you get sick, get bankrupted"

Twitter has a sensible apprehension about mixing "death" "murder" etc into political posts.

They will apply it equally to militia members who post "vote democratic and you lose your guns and will get killed"

Pretty simple rule to follow

[onecaliberal]

48. Thanks for the description. I appreciate it.

[JonLP24]

77. I doubt it is applied equally

I seen a Green Frog's Twitter page and it looked like Hitler's Twitter page. I guess the problem is I didn't alert(I almost never alert including here at DU) but he certainly advocated hate against many different groups including a meme of a transgender being lynched.

There is also the MAGAbomber who sent threats to people for political reasons and Twitter didn't take them serious even though later he sent bombs to real people.

[seta1950]

49. It that's true

They have killed almost a 1/4 of a million Americans, and it feels like it’s intentional sometimes.

[SayItLoud]

50. Take the suspension as a badge of honor.

You can appeal before you delete, I have several times but didn't overturn the suspension; but I felt I should defend my honest tweets. OK for tRUMP to post and repost racists tweets with "only a on screen warning", but for the rest of us...suspension. No matter RESIST and some will see your tweet before it's flagged.

[onecaliberal]

52. It only took about ten minutes. I was shocked.

[AllaN01Bear]

51. twitter is owned by a drumph doner.

[former9thward]

84. Not true.

Jack Dorsey is a Democrat who contributed to Andrew Yang in the primaries.

[JonLP24]

85. He also donated to Tulsi Gabbard

He was her only billionaire donor.

Jack Dorsey Maxed Out His Donation to Tulsi Gabbard After the First Debate

The first night of the June Democratic debates gave some of the lower-polling candidates the chance to break out on the national stage—and apparently, one of them made quite the impression on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. A FEC filing first reported Tuesday by Buzzfeed News revealed that Dorsey made a contribution of $5,600—the maximum amount legally allowed—to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard the day after the first debate. The Twitter CEO has also donated to candidate Andrew Yang, donating $1,000 on April 30. (“We don't comment on Jack's personal giving,” a Twitter spokesperson told Buzzfeed.)

The donations offer a rare glimpse of Dorsey's political leanings, which have remained somewhat inscrutable amid criticism from the left for going easy on President Donald Trump and from the right for supposedly “silencing” conservatives. (The CEO has admitted Twitter's biases are “more left-leaning” and has donated to Democrats in the past.) But given the candidates he's supporting, it's still hard to glean where exactly Dorsey’s political views lie. Of all the Democratic candidates, Gabbard's candidacy has proved perhaps the most ideologically conflicted, even mysterious. The Democratic congresswoman, who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016, has come under fire for her past anti-gay views and meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and her anti-interventionist views on foreign policy play well on the right as well as the left. Beyond Dorsey, many of Gabbard's other post-debate fans seem to have been conservatives; the candidate won the Drudge Report's post-debate poll, garnered news coverage from Breitbart News, and even had Ann Coulter saying, “Go, Tulsi!” “I think a lot of people would vote for her over Trump,” right-wing personality Mike Cernovich told Buzzfeed News after the debate. “MAGA people.”

Dorsey's support of Yang would seem more straightforward. Yang, a former tech entrepreneur, has a policy agenda driven by technology that's tailor-made for Silicon Valley; the universal basic income plan at the center of his campaign is specifically designed to help Americans adjust to a changing economy that's increasingly disrupted by AI and automation. (Yang has also not been without his share of conservative admirers—“I actually think Andrew Yang probably has more appeal in some corners of the right than Tulsi,” Republican strategist and Donald Trump Jr. adviser Andy Surabian told Buzzfeed—though Yang, like Gabbard, has a policy platform that includes progressive causes like Medicare for All.) It’s also understandable why he'd put his money toward Yang over frontrunners like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who's made breaking up Big Tech a central part of her platform.

While Gabbard has yet to weigh in on getting a financial endorsement from one of Silicon Valley's biggest players, Yang is clearly happy about making it on Dorsey's radar. “Thank you @jack for the support!” Yang tweeted in April. “I use at least one of your products every day.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jack-dorsey-tulsi-gabbard-andrew-yang-donations-2020

[former9thward]

86. The poster I replied to said he was a Trump donor.

No evidence of that or any contributions to Republicans.

[JonLP24]

87. I agree he isn't a Trump supporter though who he supports in the GE is unknown

I also posted in case other posters would like to know because I know Tulsi is unpopular here. Tulsi does have a libertarian base of supporters.

[BobTheSubgenius]

53. A Congressman advanced this exact concept on the floor of the House.

I wonder how he is making out on Twitter, if at all?

[onecaliberal]

54. It's not an idea. It's what is happening.

Republicans are counting on the Supreme Court to take away healthcare for 30 million plus people in the middle of a terrible pandemic that has killed 250,000 people. There are record cases RIGHT NOW. This isn’t an idea or a game, it’s is people’s lives and a lot of people are dying.

[getagrip_already]

55. one of the reasons I don't use it or fb......

They both need to be broken up....

[roamer65]

57. Yeah I got whacked for saying Pat Robertson should just go kick the bucket.

I am now out of the Twitter penalty box and back on the ice.

I have zero remorse for what I said. Fuck Twitter.

[IronLionZion]

58. It's also the GOP COVID plan

die quickly so anyone who survives can get back to work making money for the wealthy. Permanent organ damage is a pre-existing condition so they can deny health insurance to COVID survivors too.

[JonLP24]

61. I think there is more bias against left wing accounts

They changed my account to where I can't retweet, I can only quote tweet. I noticed others can still retweet. I'm a retweeter so I don't like this change.

[mahina]

67. I've got to go get myself banned.

I’ll try getting banned from fb too.

The GOP healthcare plan is if you get sick go die.

[Roland99]

68. I got suspended for a week today for replying to Limbaugh that he'll be dead soon

[onecaliberal]

69. 😬

You’re not wrong.

[Roland99]

70. The notice was for wishing harm on someone

I appealed saying I was pointing out a fact, not wishing harm on anyone

Although I was. I want him to die a slow, agonizing death

[onecaliberal]

71. I wasn't even given a chance to appeal.

[Roland99]

73. Should be one. Hidden sorta in the suspension notice

[onecaliberal]

75. When I clicked on the link the buttons were all grayed out.

[Roland99]

78. That sucks

[onecaliberal]

79. Yeah. But trump supporters who tried to run a Biden bus off the road can post it all over and that

Is a- okay.

[Roland99]

80. And post all kinds of things about hunter, too

[Roland99]

88. Try this

https://help.twitter.com/forms/general?subtopic=suspended

[Efilroft Sul]

72. If we're not getting deleted on social media this week, we're doing it wrong.

[onecaliberal]

74. Good point! I didn't think my comment would get me a suspension but here we are.

[Efilroft Sul]

81. One of my FB anti-Trump groups got shut down, and our mod suspended.

Woke up to that news today.

[onecaliberal]

82. But right wing lies abound. I'm amazed at the lies they allow.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

76. I've been locked out of my Twitter account for over two months

for a retweet that was clearly satirizing a RWer saying someone should kill themselves. I appealed it Instead of deleting it and explained why.

I think they're dragging out the appeal process because in addition to explaining how it was clearly satire and was in no way "promoting suicide," I also said it was BS since they let Trump get away with breaking the rules constantly.

[onecaliberal]

90. Exactly. Trump blocked me BEFORE the 2016 election.

I am still blocked despite the fact that a court ruled he cannot block anyone. I have asked twitter a hundred times why I am still blocked. I literally never get a reply.

[Meowmee]

83. That is ridiculous

I see vile lies and inciting of violence from dump on down there on a regular basis, dump’s account should have been permanently suspended long ago. Twitter should be eliminated imo.

[Kid Berwyn]

89. But that IS the GOP healthless care plan.

There should be no problem with stating the truth.