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Twitter has suspended me

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Glinner · 27/06/2020 03:16

I'm really sorry to barge in on you Mumsnettters with my problems, but
I've been finally suspended from Twitter and I have a feeling they're either going to ban me or just take my verified tick. I've submitted an appeal with Twitter and the Better Business Bureau but I thought I'd post here too so people knew what was going on.

Recently, I keep being locked out of my account and forced to delete tweets to get back in. The latest tactic by trans rights activists is to run a search for any time I've used the word 'groomer', a phrase Twitter recently decided was Not Allowed.

This was not a violation of Twitter's ToS at the time I used the phrase, and I have been careful to avoid it since. I still use the word 'grooming' in various permutations because I believe that gender ideology is a form of societal grooming. It is a very real threat to the wellbeing of women and children and if our ability to name a threat is removed, it is even more difficult to fight that threat.

You may remember that Twitter similarly removed Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy. She lost her account when she said "that's him" about 'Jessica' Yaniv. Bear in mind that Yaniv was still going under 'Jonathan' at the time, and just as in my case, her crime against Twitter's Terms of Service was not actually an offence at the time she committed it. She probably never thought she could be banned from the public square for uttering the words "that's him". But that's Twitter.

Twitter has a high percentage of trans-identified employees and for some time has been silencing feminists and their allies who run afoul of its absurd 'misgendering' policies. The one good thing about my situation is that I'm in great company--Claire Graham, Meghan Murphy, Skylar Gwynn, Miranda Yardley, GNC Centric and many more, important feminist and critical voices who have been silenced for fighting a dangerous ideology that tells children it's possible to be born into the wrong body.

Anyway, that's what's happening. Please let people know it's entirely down to malicious reporting from the usual suspects and please keep watching my YouTube Channel and visiting my depressing blog. I'll also be available on Glindr if people from Twitter want to re-establish contact there. Hope it's ok to post these links to those destinations

YouTube:
Glindr: glindr.org/home
Women are Important: glinner.co.uk/

Thanks for all the support, and thanks for letting me fight alongside you.

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LadybirdsAreNotBirds · 27/06/2020 04:31

So many new members coming to gloat.
Rather unbecoming.
Particularly after GL being suspended for daring to mention grooming. What kind of person on a parenting forum would want that topic silenced.

I want to thank GL for putting his neck on the line and for providing so many links to so many amazing women's accounts to follow. Many of us found each other there and have made friends and set up real life women's groups.

There are more of us than you think.

violetviolet1 · 27/06/2020 04:33

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NotBadConsidering · 27/06/2020 04:34

I think we can talk about grooming in general, but you can’t hint at a particular person being a groomer. So you could say:

“I think organising for kids to chat online without their parents knowing is grooming”

But you can’t say

“[insert name of particular organisation] organising for kids to chat online without their parents knowing is grooming.”

We are still allowed an opinion on grooming in the world. Is that your take TehBewilderness?

LadybirdsAreNotBirds · 27/06/2020 04:34

Can't say groo*er on a parenting forum? That's pretty shoddy MN.

I'm referring to people that are groovy not those that run poodle parlours of course MN

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TehBewilderness · 27/06/2020 04:38

@NotBadConsidering

I think we can talk about grooming in general, but you can’t hint at a particular person being a groomer. So you could say:

“I think organising for kids to chat online without their parents knowing is grooming”

But you can’t say

“[insert name of particular organisation] organising for kids to chat online without their parents knowing is grooming.”

We are still allowed an opinion on grooming in the world. Is that your take TehBewilderness?

I was referring to Mermaids, so you may be correct. I did not inquire of the admin team as that path leads to the ban hammer.
HowDoIBeatBeaverBother · 27/06/2020 04:41

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barrymcginty · 27/06/2020 04:44

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LunaNorth · 27/06/2020 04:44

Dear me, you can spot the TRAs a mile off.

Their prose is just so inelegant.

TehBewilderness · 27/06/2020 04:46

Transgender advocacy maintains the social hierarchy while redefining homophobia and misogyny as progressive.

NotBadConsidering · 27/06/2020 04:46

Prose? Don’t use words they can’t understand 😆😆

Grammar and punctuation people! Come on!

NotBadConsidering · 27/06/2020 04:48

Transgender advocacy maintains the social hierarchy while redefining homophobia and misogyny as progressive.

And there we have it. Elegantly put and perfectly succinct.

Words and discussion scare them.

AbigailEmmy123 · 27/06/2020 04:49

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TehBewilderness · 27/06/2020 04:50

🚩🚩🚩🚩

IsoGran · 27/06/2020 04:50

Malicious reporting indeed! It makes me so angry that one cannot dehumanise and spitefully slander an entire demographic of human beings these days!!! Whatever happened to free speech?

I fear this is just the start. Soon those awful transgender people will start enjoying more and more representation, perhaps even being portrayed as ordinary people on the television, thus poisoning the delicate minds of our children, or worse: giving them the horrible message that they too can be transgender if they happen to be among the 0.3% of people who are made that way.

Thank you Graham for caring about biological women so much in the face of this onslaught of equal rights for those I dislike and refuse to recognise as women. Even the misguided lesbians who've felt your narcissistic, misogynist temper should be eternally grateful for your efforts on their behalf.

It's just a shame Twitter lack the righteous moral integrity to support your virtuous campaign of snide lies, wilful ignorance and downright cruel dehumanisation of a small, marginalised demographic who already suffer dreadful abuse and have a tragically high suicide rate.

Consider yourself a real brave hero, Graham.

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Durgasarrow · 27/06/2020 04:54

I am completely horrified to learn about this. I feel so helpless.

shinjokame · 27/06/2020 04:56

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TehBewilderness · 27/06/2020 04:57

I do not think anyone here is surprised that most of the ill wishers have a writing style in common with other abusive males.

NotBadConsidering · 27/06/2020 04:57

I think time will tell. Glinner mentions Yaniv. Look at how protective people were when Meghan Murphy was banned and looks what’s come to light since. Twitter is full of people calling Yaniv “him” now. It’s a shame for Meghan, but we now all know who Yaniv really is. It will be the same with Glinner. Everyone will see what he has been saying at some point.

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