Had Twitter let it be known
Julie Bindel on Meghan Murphy’s lawsuit against Twitter:
‘Twitter would never have attracted the hundreds of millions of users it boasts today had Twitter let it be known that it would arbitrarily ban users who did not agree with the political and social views of its management or impose sweeping new policies banning the expression of widely-held viewpoints and perspectives on public issues,’ Murphy’s lawyers submitted.
That’s a good point. (This is why people pay lawyers.) Twitter certainly didn’t make clear from the outset that it would be doing that.
As I wrote at the time of her ban, Murphy, who, like me, is constantly de-platformed, attacked and vilified for daring to question the Orwellian madness of the transgender Taliban, is a target of vicious trans activists. Murphy had the gall to tweet about Jonathan Yaniv, who had demanded large payoffs from several female beauticians because they had refused to wax his scrotum. Yaniv, who claims to be female, had booked in for a Brazilian wax, a process done on women who wish to wear extremely skimpy bikini bottoms and not flash any pubic hair. Murphy’s crime? She referred to Yaniv as, ahem, a man.
The lifetime ban from Twitter has come as a significant blow to Murphy. The freelancer relied on Twitter as a platform to promote her writing and online magazine, Feminist Current, and had painstakingly built up close to 25,000 followers, so the ban has affected her income, as well as her reputation…
And this is for saying that a man is a man. I still have trouble believing that we are required, often on pain of arrest or banishment or both, to say men are women if they “identify as” such. I have trouble believing it and I have trouble understanding how so many people manage to ignore the alarming implications of requiring others to affirm falsehoods.
Did that say “refused to wax his scrotum,” or did I just hallucinate?
Oh yes, it said that, and that is the case. You missed the story? It’s quite…startling. Yaniv apparently sought out women who worked from home doing cosmetic stuff for women, including “waxing” (which I think is barbaric, but that’s another story…mostly), so that he could demand they wax him and then sue them when they said they wax women only. Nice little earner.
Here’s a link to the lawsuit in a PDF file, if you don’t have it already. I printed the PDF file to paper and I read it with a highlighter. It really impresses me as a coherent compilation of the facts and issues.
https://www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190210-Complaint.pdf
For one thing, I felt a huge sense of relief and satisfaction to see the things that Johathan Yaniv did are documented here in very clear language. A larger point is that when people say Twitter is a company, so free speech does not apply, the lawsuit make a case that Twitter’s business practices are fraudulent.
Here’s Murphy’s link to crowdsource the lawsuit.
https://meghanmurphylawsuit.com/
Pretty wild that this* is the “party line” now and otherwise reasonable humans are agreeing and enforcing it.
It occurs to me that the unthinking agreement on the part of those in academia is due to the conscious or subconscious fear for their jobs, or fear that they may bring the wrath of the Internet down upon themselves or their institutions.
Speaking of the wrath of the Internet, if someone wanted to manufacture say, a huge rift on the Left that made the Lefties look even crazier than the Right has always perceived them, this* would be a great thing to promote on the Internet, IMHO.
* this being that “we” must all agree with a new definition which is the set of everyone who declares themselves a woman (even only occasionally) plus the set of everyone in the set formerly known as “women” less all those who have declared themselves as men.
For consistency, for those who believe trans women are women and trans men are men, and that misgendering is a form of abuse or hate speech or somesuch… When a ‘cis’ man or woman is misgendered, that should be no less of a crime, right?
Where is the outcry about the misgendering of cis folk? It happens a lot and is quite annoying. But whenever it happened to me i was told to get a haircut as if it was my fault. Would twitter ban someone now if they said that to a long-haired cis male?
Also, are self-styled progressives concerned at all that large private corporations are controlling our lives in this way? Or are they the sorts of progressives that believe in free markets, tax avoidance and individualism?
The Guardian headline implies that Bindel and Milo were somehow linked. In the text, it’s clear that SHE was banned reflexively, at the first demand of the trans-police. While Milo, who she was set to oppose, was only dropped after a genuine objection.