What Gets a Woman Suspended From Twitter

[mancheeze]

Here are the tweets that transactivists reported

The interesting thing is they put me on a 12 hour suspension but wanted a mobile phone number to restore my account. Since I don't have a mobile phone and only a landline that can't take an SMS message, I am now locked out of my account.

I did appeal. Heard nothing yet.

Fuck Twitter.

Fuck them indeed

I had a seven day ban for telling a tra she was bu by saying cancer related mastectomies were a choice but top surgery was life or death.

I got back on Saturday. I am now locked out of my account because I refuse to delete this tweet.

Why the hell should you supply a mobile phone number OP? I haven't put my mobile number on my twitter account or any other account I can think of unless it's something for which I might actually need to be contacted eg supermarket shopping account. I try to maintain a degree of anonymity - spare email address I never use too.

I have a cheap £17 payg Nokia that I keep as a spare for emergencies so if I really have to and don't want to I give that number. I gave it recently when I was signing up to something that I didn't think merited my contact details - next time I switched on the phone there was a mass of missed calls and messages from a load of companies like ppi. They totally sold on the number.

Not surprised. Where is everyone keeping in touch? It seems like almost every online platform is against females who have their own opinions being allow to connect. I've heard many people say they're using Facebook groups, but it's not safe for me to use my real name in many discussions and I hate Facebook. YouTube videos from women are often trolled by MRAs and the comments sections can be "interesting" to say the least.

Being deleted for that male violence one is really scary.

Twitter must be run by a bunch of sad, vicious little dicks!

It's mind-blowing how little it takes to get suspended for transphobia on Twitter, given how much abuse and violent threats women get which rarely result in banning.

I kind of wish we could open up the debate more widely - get people who are not engaged with this involved. They would be constantly banned for saying things that they would have no idea is offensive, and it may open their eyes to the extreme ludicrousness of the situation. At the moment it's too easy to say that feminist get banned for transphobia for saying horrible, hateful things, because most people never see the tweets that get people banned.

Amalfi

How about deleting the tweet and then, when you're back in again, posting something with equivalent sentiments but slightly different wording?

Obviously you shouldn't have to do that but it would restore your account.

Yes Last. They have very tiny lives.

It is the give them and inch and they take a mile mentality. There is no proper definition of this particular phobia, so once they have a few tweets deleted the noose gets ever tighter

Why the hell should you supply a mobile phone number OP?

They want to verify my account with an SMS message. I don't like mobile phones and don't have one and therefore cannot get the SMS to verify.

The simple answer to the OP is that a woman is suspended from Twitter if there are sufficient reports which can fit with the specific criteria that is required for sanction.

Its worth noting that there are many examples of Tweets with transphobic and bigoted comments by what seem to be male posters whose accounts also demonstrate more obvious 'far right' beliefs, yet these seem not to be reported.

THis is despite the recent assertions by Owen Jones etc and exemplified in Indy article:

'How the far right is attacking the lives of the transgender community - and what we can do to stop it'
(concludes)
"Another key force fighting the right wing attacks on the transgender community is the tireless work of activists themselves, who fight day in and day out to challenge the status quo.

Activists and transgender people such as Jake Graf, Monroe Bergdorf, Hannah Winterborne, Lily Madigan, and Shon Fey all use their platforms to chip away at the negative propaganda.

Despite being subject to a barrage of abuse on social media platforms like Twitter, and some even reporting the receipt of death threats, their high-profile presence ploughs the furrow for younger gender non-conforming people, and gives them role models.

For Jake, one of the most important thing is that the cisgender community can do to support transgender rights is to get on board and support the transgender cause. Speaking to indy100, he said:

Now more than ever, allies' support is vital as there are too few of us to always make our voices heard"

www.indy100.com/article/how-the-far-right-is-attacking-the-lives-of-the-transgender-community-and-what-we-can-do-to-stop-it-8369021

How did the far right come into this?

Oh and I wasn't asking what gets suspended, I was stating that THIS is what got ME suspended for who knows how long.

"some even reporting the receipt of death threats"

Funny, that comment from LOJ sounds almost like an allegedly...

Sorry not LOJ, misread that bit

Would something like this be viable?

smsreceivefree.com/

For an interesting comparison, every single message retweeted by this account has been reported at least once. Some have been taken down, of course, but have a read through the 180+ that remain as Twitter deemed them unactionable. All of them are from this month alone.

www.twitter.com/terfsarewomen

mancheeze

Apologies for my clumsily worded comment.

I'm aware how women are targetted by some TRAs on Twitter.

Twitter rules are used, sometimes with mass reports to silence, censor and smear.

There are many tweets on Twitter which are transphobic, bigotted and hate filled often posted by men.

THese seem not to attract the same efforts. (perhaps there is also a comparison with how MN is targetted rather than Kiwi Farms etc)

I was also attepting to also highlight the incongruity that whilst it is a common claim that transphobia comes from the far-right. THose women and GC people seem mostly to come from left wing / green / liberal political backgrounds. (see Venice Allen, Linda Bellos, Posie Parker, Miranda Yardley, Lisa Muggeridge etc etc)

Mumsnet, WPUK, We Need to Talk have all been described by some TRAs as being right wing, like the KKK or Nazis.

None of this is the case, it does though act as both a smear and (I think) has some coersive influence in disuading others to listen more closely to the truth.

More people need to be aware of how SM, especially Twitter is used.

@Rowan

Ok, I misunderstood your comment as it seemed to come out of nowhere as I read it.

I am a US and Canadian Citizen and most definitely on the left. I'm an Independent in the USA and an NDPer in Canada.

So yes, many women like me on the left are being censored by transactivists.

I still haven't gotten back into my account btw.

I will try the SMS service.

mancheeze I think its appalling the way that GC women are being targetted by some TRAs. I also think its appalling the way that women are being targetted here on Mumsnet.

Glosswitch's article in the The New Statesman reminds us:

"The demonisation of Mumsnet is just the latest incarnation of witch-hunting
Naturally, it frightens people to think of what a group of mothers might actually demand.

“The deliberate withdrawal of women from men has almost always been seen as a potentially dangerous or hostile act, a conspiracy, a subversion, a needless and grotesque thing.” Thus wrote Adrienne Rich in 1976’s Of Woman Born, her seminal exploration of the politics of motherhood. From the workers gossiping in the spinning circle to old wives passing down knowledge of contraception and abortion, women gathered in isolation have long been considered untrustworthy. What might they be saying? What could they be plotting? And how, above all, might they be controlled?

It’s a problem that’s never gone away, though the context has changed. Anxiety over women’s speech – fuelling violent backlash in the form of witch trials and scold’s bridles – arose at a time when, to quote Marina Warner, “women dominated the webs of information and power; the neighbourhood, the village, the well, the washing place, the shops, the stalls, the street were their arena of influence, not only the household”. (continues)

www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2018/05/demonisation-mumsnet-just-latest-incarnation-witch-hunting

What a splendid article- spot on!

Fucking inadequate zombies..