Make the women stop talking
Twitter has now permanently banned Meghan Murphy. For what? For having an Unapproved View on sex and gender. What next? Banning, say, Walter Shaub and Norm Eisen for being critical of Trump? Banning Human Rights Watch for reporting on violations of human rights? Banning scientists for talking about global warming?
Why is it Twitter’s job to enforce orthodoxy on trans dogma? Why is that Twitter’s job when it’s not Twitter’s job to do anything about years-long harassment campaigns against women?
So, we need to make her thoughts even more widely available on Twitter.
"I choose to consider facts and take what I consider to be ethical positions based on those facts, even if those facts and positions don’t fit whatever is considered to be politically correct." I stand with #MeghanMurphy and #FreeSpeech. https://t.co/TLQR3WmvHU
— Tara Nykyforiak (@TCbytheriver) November 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/K_IngalaSmith/status/1066239395009835008
I will happily relay tweets from #MeghanMurphy until they ban me too. So if anyone knows her, please pass that on.
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) November 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/Ginger1383/status/1066392765104218112
Words from #MeghanMurphy, banned from Twitter again: "Imagine if we were asked not to debate war or capitalism or climate change, lest it hurt the feelings of warmongers and capitalists and climate change deniers?" https://t.co/wY9KQrCVWh
— Shona Craven (@shonacraven) November 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/renarde/status/1066350086597292032
https://twitter.com/LesleySemmens/status/1066481457655439365
She isn’t even violating the rule they say she’s violating. She isn’t “promoting violence or threatening or harassing” anyone.
But Ben, didn’t you know? Questioning trans orthodoxy is Actual Violence. It is Genocide.
Threatening women with baseball bats, beating up elderly women you disagree with? Not Actual Violence. Protecting trans ideology is never Actual Violence. Only the words of feminists are Actual Violence.
Women questioning the trendy definition of gender: bannable, as said questioning is equated with violence.
Literal nazis who would literally murder trans women and men: fine for many years, then grudgingly, maybe, something that we suppose ought to be bannable, when we get around to it. *put-upon sigh*
Nice going, twitter.
WordPress also shut down feminist blogs with no notice:
https://adland.tv/adnews/wordpress-shuts-down-several-feminist-blogs-without-warning
From the article, WordPress added this bullet to the list of information they consider a privacy violation:
I don’t understand what is happening.
“Banning, say, Walter Shaub and Norm Eisen for being critical of Trump? Banning Human Rights Watch for reporting on violations of human rights? Banning scientists for talking about global warming?”
Of course not. Scold’s bridles are only for uppity women.
Dave @ 4 – Yes, and not only that but that rule you quote is a brand-new rule that WP added after it abruptly with no notice shut down those feminist blogs. Furthermore it didn’t just freeze them, it removed all the content. Also without notice.
Almost always there is another side to these stories, but there is nothing like that here. Twitter’s actions are inexcusable. I could see an overzealous moderator jumping the gun once, but it should all have been reversed on appeal. It’s unbelievable that instead they escalated their punishments.
(I don’t think she’s officially been permanently banned. It appears she’s been suspended and is not hopeful that it will be reversed on appeal.)
One of the problems we have is that we’ve deliberately and gleefully created a world in which companies with very easily understood self-interested agenda are pretty much in charge of who can say what as a matter of pathetic expedience – often just answering a question about why they were so awful last time.
Social media doesn’t have to be run by monopolies. I’m writing a book right now for kids about how they can build a social media site from scratch and how they can decide the rules and how they might federate rather than dominate. I’m an idealist, I know. But there are way more kids who want there to be a better way than to go with the status quo.
So in conclusion, buy my book, you tight bastards.
@skeletor:
Entirely off-topic but today I learned that He-Man and Skeletor have an unexpectedly rich backstory and some sources have it that Skeletor is He-Man’s uncle. I’m a sucker for a backstory and I feel that the He-Man cartoons would have been massively improved if He-Man had called him Uncle Skeletor.
You should definitely change your name to Uncle Skeletor.
Maybe I can sneak back in under that name when Ophelia finally bans me.
Hmph. Very funny but I have no intention of banning you.
Ha, good to know.
yet…