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What sort of thing causes a person to be permanent banned from Twitter

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AdHominemNonSequitur · 04/03/2021 18:36

Courtesy of the magnificent Debbie Hayton's Twitter feed.
This is the sort of hateful transphobic language people get permanently banned from Twitter for.
Full thread here: twitter.com/DebbieHayton/status/1367365939914813442

As she also points out, they ban people for stating reality because reality is the problem!

What sort of thing causes a person to be permanent banned from Twitter
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Kettlingur · 04/03/2021 18:38

Is this why our new guests want to continue the discussion on twitter?

PermanentTemporary · 04/03/2021 18:44

Stating that a particular individual with testicles was a man, in my friend's case (she's not Meghan Murphy).

MichelleofzeResistance · 04/03/2021 19:02

With that and the article in the spectator Debbie wins the internet today.

"They ban people for stating reality, because reality is the problem."

I want that on a t shirt.

Mollyollydolly · 04/03/2021 19:06

No doubt Debbie will get another load of hate. Surprised Debbie hasn't been banned, even twitter might not have the brass neck to do that.

AdHominemNonSequitur · 04/03/2021 19:12

I think she gets more than her fair share already. I get the sense that she is fighting because she has strongly held secular and rational principles.
I guess my post might make it worse though.

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ErrolTheDragon · 04/03/2021 19:15

They banned Miranda Yardley, didn't they?
Twitter may realise that banning Hayton would be a massive own goal given the fact DH regularly writes in the mainstream media and could probably get broadcast media coverage.

WanderinWomb · 04/03/2021 19:17

@Kettlingur

Is this why our new guests want to continue the discussion on twitter?
Yes. Of course. But pointing that out lead to accusations of bad faith and picking on a lone voice Confused

The Twitter usuals since last night are pulling out all the stops to get as many of us banned from Twitter and MN as possible.
That's why I hope today's deletions don't count as strikes because MN are being played like a fiddle.

StealthPolarBear · 04/03/2021 19:20

I suspect Debbie is close to getting banned which would be a huge shame as she talks a lot of sense. And states biological reality which clearly is toutally unacceptable when there are myths to peddle and lies to perpetuate.

AdHominemNonSequitur · 04/03/2021 19:23

@FondOfBeetles and @SwipeWright are still keeping it real though. I wonder if they are protected by their Developmental Biology professorships?

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McDuffy · 04/03/2021 20:08

I got a deletion today for commenting on the general standard of SPaG from our incoming guests Confused not sure what rule I broke. Would it be different if these threads were on AIBU?

ErrolTheDragon · 04/03/2021 20:57

@McDuffy

I got a deletion today for commenting on the general standard of SPaG from our incoming guests Confused not sure what rule I broke. Would it be different if these threads were on AIBU?
Not being sufficiently welcoming to people MNHQ somehow invited over from Twitter, I suppose. Slightly odd concept, but by accident or design it seems the net result is that the incoming guests act as devils advocates for MN lurkers, and don't have quite the effect they might be hoping for.
Kettlingur · 04/03/2021 21:05

the incoming guests act as devils advocates for MN lurkers, and don't have quite the effect they might be hoping for.

I have to think they did not send their A team.

picklemewalnuts · 04/03/2021 21:40

But kettl, given what they cab believe, this could be as good as they get!

dumpling23 · 04/03/2021 22:00

My friend was banned for saying: men don't menstruate. Was the latest in a line of "hateful" conduct. So. There you go!

McDuffy · 04/03/2021 22:02

Putting the "men" in menstruate Grin

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 04/03/2021 22:27

I've been suspended twice.

Once for saying transwomen are as likely to be violent as other men are (ie not that TW are violent, but that there was no reason to distinguish them from other male people re violent behaviour).

Second time for saying generally that men didn't have the right to say what a woman was. Unfortunately it turned out the person in the tweet before me must have been a TW and decided it was aimed at them.

It's very hard to take a (proper) feminist position on gender and not get suspended.

LastRoloIsMine · 04/03/2021 22:34

Yep I have been recently banned from twitter for saying males are male from conception.

PotholeParadies · 04/03/2021 22:58

Siân Lacey Taylder (hope I've spelt her surname properly!) got banned from twitter for supporting women's rights. So far, so normal for a day ending in -y, yes?

Except, Siân was a transwoman who'd transitioned back before some of the anime avatars hadn't even been born.

Beamur · 04/03/2021 23:40

What is the advantage of actually doing Twitter? I occasionally look, but feel no interest in joining, posting or engaging on Twitter. It just looks like a tedious time sink.

Cailleach1 · 04/03/2021 23:50

@LastRoloIsMine

Yep I have been recently banned from twitter for saying males are male from conception.
Robert Winston said something along those lines while speaking in the House of Lords.
PotholeParadies · 04/03/2021 23:56

@Beamur

What is the advantage of actually doing Twitter? I occasionally look, but feel no interest in joining, posting or engaging on Twitter. It just looks like a tedious time sink.
Well, you can respond to people with mocking gifs.

Also, the dopamine rush and sense of achievement when you tick over from 39 followers to 40.

Mockolate · 05/03/2021 00:11

I got a deletion today for commenting on the general standard of SPaG from our incoming guests confused not sure what rule I broke

Just guessing but if their spelling had nothing to do with the post in general and was just a dig at them because they had a different opinion that'll be why
(fully aware this is probably a rhetorical question)

Beamur · 05/03/2021 00:14

Pothole Paradies
Grin

PotholeParadies · 05/03/2021 00:18

Me: "Take that, Mr Matthews. You said I'd never amount to anything, and now I have fourty followers!"

Mr Matthews: "that's sweet. I have 26,000 because of my winning combination of sarcasm, pictures of my falabella horse, and my political commentary. Also, it's spelt "forty", dear."

Impatiens · 05/03/2021 00:26

Eric Joyce has got 22K followers on twitter. Nice place.

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