So I am banned - fuck it

I left Twitter recently because I came to the conclusion, they just don't deserve the patronage. I could no longer participate in a platform that hates women and doesn't want us to share in the freedom to say any ol shit, that is extended to men. When you are rubbing pixels with paedophiles and swastikas and graphics of lynched women, it is time to leave (it was for me). I have also noticed friends speaking about Women's Rights more freely and wanting to meet in real life to talk more together. It's an interesting and welcome development that a hostile environment like Twitter encourages women to network independently of it. I believe more can be achieved offline than on (being that anonymity is never held in the same regard as a real person putting their name to an action, word or thought) , but I do recognise the value the Internet has in bringing people and ideas together. Twitter is hostile to women and I'm not sure "another twitter" would fix that. Happy to be wrong. Mumsnet is extraordinary. I'm sure all this has been said before, but thought I'd say it again.

That has been going on for ages now Caro. Horrendous behaviour.

I wonder what would happen if someone retweeted some horrible uncensored comment about women, with the text exactly the same but with tw where w was.

It might be illuminating.

Thank you. At least they interviewed the suspect under caution but you know, doxing my 14 year old daughter, boasting you know her school, how she travels there and blogging photos showing you are 3 minutes walk from my house, is not serious enough for them to get the hard evidence.

I’m fighting it...in the meantime I might like a limerick.

Oh Caroline they are beyond satire. So sorry about all the harrassment you are getting. And how crap the police are.

"I got a 12 hour ban for a Buzz Lightyear gif which misgendered an anime profile."

😀😁😂🤣🤣😂😃😄😅

Dr Harrop can engage in intimidation tactics tweeting photos of the interior my husband’s church and boast about how it’s not targeted harassment but I am not allowed to use a Twitter provided Buzz Lightyear gif.

I found myself self-censoring last night because I wanted to say the majority of transwomen still have penises but instead linked to the Fair Play Website which says it.

I am deemed important enough to have my own hate blog and a team of 9-15 people monitoring my tweets 24/7. I got a 12 hour ban for a Buzz Lightyear gif which misgendered an anime profile.

Having tweetcleaner on your account helps. It stops them from trawling your old tweets for wrong speak.

Am quite excited about what twitters share price will be by next summer. Financial analysts are desperately ignoring their relaionship with women while wringing hands about the platform.

Me neither. I have no reason to back down and every motivation to continue.

I will set up new accounts too. People did warn me.
Main message to any women silencing lurkers out there - I won't shut up. I will move to different platforms, user names, techniques, whatever. You can't shut me up.

I've just got locked out of Twitter and it won't let me back in.

I think I'll ditch that account and set up a new one through a proxy server.

CBA to argue with a bot. Plus bonus will be I won't be on Terfblocker for a while.

Funnily enough, I am on a week's twitter holiday, for taking the piss out of men. I have complained because sex, as we know, is not a protected characteristic as far as twitter is concerned.
I have used the time to write a long letter to my MP about freedom of speech and the gc movement. Had a letter back saying that the MP shares my 'huge concerns'.
Next stop is the GMC. Lots of new stuff to say.
After that I'm compiling a list of everyone who has been harassed using out legal system. I don't know if anyone else is doing this? Happy to help anyone else but otherwise, I'm collecting twitter or any other nicknames with details, where people don't mind me doing this.

*”This includes; women"

Does twitter ever ban anyone for abusing women?”

No, because only men who identify as women matter.

"This includes; women"

Does twitter ever ban anyone for abusing women?

I thought they're only allowed to ban people for breaking forum guidelines? Yet they seem to have broken their own guidelines by banning people simply for disagreeing with their personal points of view. Has anyone else noticed this?

I have never attacked anyone or called anyone names, nor have I ever been homophobic, transphobic or broken any forum guidelines, yet one of the MNHQ staff has recently taken to trawling through my posts & erasing them for no apparent reason. She simply puts in its place "read forum guidelines."- but I have read them, and my posts didn't break them!

Some of my erased posts were so innocuous & supporting the forum (such as suggesting people tolerate each other's differences of opinion & express theirs without personal attacks). I'm convinced this member of MNHQ staff might be trolling me (probably has done it to others too).

Is there anyone moderating the MNHQ mods?

Like many others, I'm afraid to post anything on this forum anymore.

I checked the Terfblocker followers and I've obviously been put on a list as over half of the 700 followers had blocked me, and I've had interactions with precisely 0% of them. 😂😂😂

Quite a cathartic night blocking everyone on the list while reporting quite a few obscene images and offensive profiles this evening.

I've had notifications on two occasions that my reports on FMStomp broke twitter rules but they stick on Twitter like a whelk to the sh*t pipe of a trawler ship. Nasty piece of work that one.

I have been on twitter for a whole week having a riot dead naming and misgendering all over the place. I'm waiting for my ban to arrive when I finally become interesting but with a grand total of 9 followers I feel I may have a few weeks in me.

I share the conflict - it's similar to the guidelines that are specific to posting on some topics on FWR here on Mumsnet.

I find the intentional disappearing of different voices from social media to be deeply troubling and I don't have a ready solution.

There are other boards or parts of social media - with a much smaller readership and/or with a very different tone & spirit. But UK media reproduce items from Twitter, Facebook, and Mumsnet - not those other places.

I do feel like writing with caution is sometimes indistinguishable from accepting some of the pre-conditioning for totalitarianism.

< budges up on the Naughty Step >

I am a bit conflicted about the advice. Absolutely ridiculous that we should have to police ourselves in this way

@Glinner (Graham Linehan) has a thread with advice for people on how not to be suspended from Twitter:

twitter.com/Glinner/status/1067851394009444352

It's understandable, but I find it unfortunate that some of the advice is that people might consider deleting all of their previous tweets to prevent time line trawling to find something that can be reported. I know that I've previously bookmarked threads on interesting topics.

You know, for some reason I just remembered that scene from the movie "Suffragette" where they handed out badges and flowers to the women who had gone to prison for the cause.

Sandy Draws Badly responds to ban.

twitter.com/SandyDrawsBadly/status/1067743810552242177

My boycott list has been a little painful (no more soft soft M and S babygrows, alas) but I will vote with my wallet. You fuck women over, you get not a single penny more from the House of Bowl. And that includes giants like Unilever who seem to be on board with this - I know you manufacture almost everything but I’ll drop every single product I can.

I am the same. I'm also trying hard to make positive purchases that support women and anyone in the fight. Jenni Murray's books as Christmas presents, that sort of thing.