TRAs putting pressure on twitter accounts to stop following GC accounts

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Just seen this - let clothes be clothes are declining to unfollow people, despite being put under pressure by some TRAs who want to "show their support to the trans community"

More silencing and suppressing women then?

It's like toddlers thinking if they put their hands over their eyes no one will see them. People don't actually vanish if they're not followed on Twitter.

Yeah - it's unbelievably infantile.

But so impressed with their response - glad to see they won't be bullied.

Apart from anything else it's so fucking childish to think that you can only follow people you agree with.
I used to follow Donald Trump! Some high-profile figures - or journalists others etc - I like to keep up with what's going on even if I don't agree with them.

I'd be hard pushed to name anyone I follow that agreed with me on every issue - I have no idea if they do and I don't care.

I followed all the political parties before the elections(s), doesn't mean I'm good to vote for them, as Pope says, it's good to be informed.

Information, debate, free speech. Some struggle with these three things it seems.

IIRC let clothes be clothes have stood firm before

They're trying to force Dr Jessica Taylor, of Victim Focus, to renounce following gender critical people?

Can these people read?

wellbehavedwomen Jessica Taylor? She is awesome. They evidently can't read and have no understanding of women's rights.

As a side issue, Jessica's twitter feed took me to Ruth Serwotka's powerful letter to the foolish Lisa Nandy:

womansplaceuk.org/2020/02/14/dear-lisa-nandy-a-letter-from-ruth-serwotka/

Have you seen Irish Twitter today? Attacks of Maia Dunphy, Roisin Ingle and other prominent women who follow glinner by prominent Irish trans women (didn't see the girls after any men but I'm open to correction).
So far all the women have relented and unfollowed glinner.
And this happens on the day the Citizens Assembly had its first meeting on gender equality. Equality my hole.

Just after a High Court judge talked about Orwellian behaviour. How appropriate.

It's slipping from Orwellian to Spanish inquisition/ Henry VIII and Cromwell with a bit of Bloody Mary on the side.

"Dost though recant? Will thou renounce females and all their rights?"

Is anyone else seeing those two little girls from The Flint Street Nativity where the bossy one is dragging the other reluctant but scared to protest one away while informing her "Come along Shamima, we're not talking to her ."

They want people to stop listening to us because what we're saying is both reasonable and convincing, and the media is starting to pick up on it.

You have to admire the fortitude of people who realise they're on the wrong side of the freedom to express an opinion debate and who decide to doubledown on curtailing the free association with others on Twitter and exposure to different ideas.

The public are startled to learn the scale of rights that are in some peril? Outstanding, let them see us protecting them from dangerous ideas by publicly approaching people who didn't even know we were following them and asking them to unfollow other social media accounts.

We'll definitely look rational and entirely level-headed with that set of behaviours.

Oh it's so juvenile isn't it? Many more high profile accounts have been at it too, along with the ban glinner hashtag.

twitter.com/aoifemrtn

has retweeted many examples, eg. Turns out that I’m following 104 people who follow this account. Some of them surprised me. Some of them maybe have professional reasons. Others... well... know that I know. Know that I will always look on you with that knowledge.

We've got the police being thought police and twitterati TRAs being the 'follow police' - quite apart from anything else, why can't people follow those they disagree with? Trump must have loads of followers who don't like or agree with him.

know that I know. Know that I will always look on you with that knowledge.

Self-appointed Witchfinder Generals choosing who can associate virtually and who can't.

Justice Knowles says it best: “In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society.”

There must be a few doing it. Doubt they are getting much success.

Trying to police who other people follow on Twitter is childish and places a disproportionate emphasis on the virtual world.
Secondly, it highlights how TRAs find any alternative view threatening. They can't comprehend that people may follow a other people who hold a range of views that aren't the same as theirs. Most people know living in an echo chamber is unhealthy and don't need to censor those with differing perspectives.

Jon Ronson: "People DMing me to ask me to unfollow gl**ner: please stop asking me. I feel the same way you do about his crusade but I don’t tell you what to do in your lives so please don’t tell me. Just because you’ve decided the new law is a follow = an endorsement, it doesn’t make it true."

Going back to the OP, 'We'll follow who we choose thanks' reminds me of Julia Hartley-Brewer saying 'You use the words you want to use and I'll use the words I want to use' when in similar debates.

Different ways of rejecting attempts at coercive control - think you can tell the tide is turning as the attempts seem to be via DM rather than siccing the mob on people in open tweets.