Blocked on twitter!

[recently]

I rarely post on twitter although I do use my real nameon there. It has recently come to my attention though that I have been blocked by several posters tweeting on trans issues - weird, as I don't think I have even liked anything particularly controversial! Am I on a list? Should I not use my real name on twitter? I am a bit taken aback actually as I really seems so bizarre to ban someone who hasn't even said anything.

From Twitter guidelines. I don't know what it means but it says you can report an account which has blocked you.

Note: You can report an account that you have blocked or that has blocked you. Go to that account’s profile and click or tap theoverflowicon and then selectReport.

Yes, you can report a profile name which is what you can see.

You cannot report a tweet. You cannot get to the tweet to see it or use the report function.

The profile name has to include hateful information.

For instance, I think everyone should report anyone who has "terf puncher" or "honorary terf puncher" in their name.

Please. That's a genuine request.

Parker Molloy has blocked me, using what I assume as a block list.

Parker molloy wrote a piece for the New York Times fairly recently and then a lot of people who hadn’t interacted with them realised they were blocked so I think Parker used the blocklist after the piece? I was following them so didn't think I’d be blocked but apparently blocklists don’t differentiate!

Parker’s retweeting stuff from Kilgore trout, who might be an offshoot (or parody of I suppose) of the Kilgore sprout account mentioned upthread.

(I was trying to see what you could see/do on blocked accounts using an incognito browser and looked at Parker’s page as I knew I was blocked)

The TerfBlocker account, the current one, FYI, is at a minimum associated with Kilgore. The last iteration became unworkable because their definition of "terf" was too large and they ended up blocking themselves.

And yes, a block list blocks everybody with no exceptions for current followers. (If you pointed it out to a user, the response is likely: why were you following me anyway? Are you a spy?)

It's a control issue. Who determines what's acceptable on twitter.

Twitter IS a cesspool. The way the tech works helped make it that.

August 1, 2013 Article by Tim Farley discussing a previous incarnation of a 'mass block list' and its creator.
'The Block Bot is unsuitable for general use in its present form'
(extract)
" Early this year an atheist in the UK named James Billingham (known online as ool0n) built and published The Block Bot."

skeptools.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/block-bot-twitter-report-abuse-ool0n-atheism-plus/

The last iteration became unworkable because their definition of "terf" was too large and they ended up blocking themselves.

Yes, that was funny!

I was blocked before I’d tweeted anything - presumably on the blocking list because I follow GC accounts and/or had liked a GC tweet

So actual thought-policing then.