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Twitter Says It Accidentally Banned A Bunch Of Accounts (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Over the past 24 hours, some Twitter users had their profiles replaced with a notice saying their accounts were now being "withheld in: Worldwide." The "country withheld" program run by Twitter typically prevents users based in a specific country from from seeing tweets sent by a withheld account. This was the first time people could recall the company withholding accounts globally, which was in effect a total ban for the user. At the time of writing, BuzzFeed News had identified 21 accounts that were being withheld worldwide, and users on Twitter were beginning to wonder if this was a new method being used by the company to suspend accounts. But a Twitter spokesperson tells BuzzFeed News that the worldwide withholdings were in fact the result of a bug. "We have identified a bug that incorrectly impacted certain accounts. We have identified a fix, are working to resolve the issue, and anticipate it will be fully resolved shortly," the spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
Nothing of value was lost.
Yeah right.
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That what happens when accounts get removed for free speech.
No talking about a movie review.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
San Francisco hipster fake progressives sure do love censorship on behalf of repressive regimes.
Without Trump, Twitter would have no mass audience.
Brazen censorship, and the absurd toxicity of the party line ideas imposed thereby, have driven away most of their former users.
And if Twitter decides to ban Trump, whatever platform Trump uses will see a surge in new accounts and usage. And Twitter will continue to die.