DrRadfem aka Venice Allan has been blocked from Twitter

Twitter has been doing this a lot of late and it's very sinister when it relates to political debate.

A lot of people were very happy when a lot of far right accounts were purged and I totally understand the gut reaction of good, they deserved it.

However you have to look at it from the bigger picture of a social media giant being arbiters of political discourse.

Do we really want the silicon valley types to control the narrative? Often in countries they are not even residents of.

Do they not have to let you know why they have banned you?

Mine is locked out unless I delete a tweet. But I'm not going to. I am not at fault for pointing out that sex cannot be changed

@AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth can I ask what it was you tweeted exactly? It's ok if you'd rather not say but I am telling people about this kind of silencing and they don't believe it is this bad or that these women must have tweeted something really offensive. I don't think that's true - I think it is a show of power and aggression by TRAs who are organised with nothing better to do than shut down women.

DrRadFem and AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth I'm so sorry you have been targeted like this, this silencing of women's voices is vindictive and mysogynistic.

Or started publicising in the media how we are being silenced on it?

They would answer 'and yet you are here, not being silenced.'

Make no mistake - they have massive backing and are IT savvy. They erased the women murdered and replaced them with trans women murdered (Google it).

I’m fucking furious but mostly horror struck. This is unreal.

I think twitter is a poor medium for debate anyway. I only started using it recently to support Venice, the Man Friday thing and a Women's Place but there are an awful lot of angry nutters there and I doubt anyone changes anyone's opinion. It's an echo chamber. Is there somewhere better to go? Mumsnet is fine but very self selected.

I think investigating how a relatively small number of accounts have been driving the narrative should definitely be deserving of investigation.

There seems to be a bigger picture

Oh ffs.

This makes me so very very fucking angry.

Hi DrRadfem!

Followed you on Twitter......can't fucking believe they've silenced you.

What a bunch of fascist cunts they are.

Don't like a fact?
Get the account deleted!

Would it work if all of us on Twatter bombarded them with complaints about this?
Or started publicising in the media how we are being silenced on it?

Any other ideas how we can fight this?

Christ this is so sinister.

Mine is locked out unless I delete a tweet. But I'm not going to. I am not at fault for pointing out that sex cannot be changed

It is not suspended (yet) but I can't access it, although it is still available to view for everyone elses.

No doubt about it, Twitter is full on silencing women.

Hi! Twitter hasn't given me a reason ☹️
I'm crap at Mumsnet HELP! 🙏

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Her account appears to have the permanent suspension message so I think that account has been torpedoed for good. Hopefully, she will be back under a new account.

I find this so sinister.

How is it being allowed to happen? Why isn't it being picked up by the press? She's outspoken, yes, but she's hardly a crackpot extremist. And as far as I know she hasn't said anything that isn't true.

Twitter's back room is rammed full of TRAs/MRAs. They don't close down accounts with images of women being brutalised, but call a person with a cock a man - and you are gone.

Also, there is a group of TRAs that have formed who are doing mass reports of anything deemed 'fact based' that goes against the TRAs' ideology. You know, abortions are a women's issue, that sort of thing.

Be prepared for them picking off each vocal RadFem one by one.

Does anyone know what Twitter's stated reason for this is?

Hopefully she will be back soon. Sometimes these types of bans are just for a few days...