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Twitter Suspends Indie Journalists

posted by LaminatorX on Monday November 10 2014, @03:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-detention dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Atheist vlogger Thunderf00t reports that Jordan Owen, Slade Villena, and Mykeru were "all suspended from twitter for no reason." Jordan Owen is the co-producer of the documentary The Sarkeesian Effect, a critique of the methods of controversial vlogger Anita Sarkeesian. Mykeru is the producer of The Block Bot and the Dumbification of the Beeb, a critique of the BBC Newsnight segment "Talking to the Twitter Trolls and those Who Study them". Slade Villena is a former writer for Gamasutra and the founder of indie game developer Rogue Star Games.

Thunderf00t himself was suspended from Twitter for two weeks in September for unclear reasons. At that time Twitter had also banned the account of "The Camera Lady", the researcher for a video series accusing award-winning developer Phil Fish and the Independent Games Festival of racketeering.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @07:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @07:38AM (#114436)

    I went to that link, and they seem pretty adamant that their system does not report people and could not get people banned. (It's implied that this was either considered or implemented at some point in the past, but is definitely not a current feature.)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @03:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @03:54PM (#114523)

    Are you surprised? Gametainters have delusions of persecution, it basically defines the movement and lets them feel justified in making actual public threats against their perceived persecutors.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @04:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @04:16PM (#114534)

      Well, they're removed that "feature" recently if it is removed. That would probably still factor into the suspension of these people.

      Also, "delusions of persecution"? Jesus Christ, have you not looked at some of the anti-GGer's Twitters? They put all their shortcomings down to either "patriarchy" and the assorted "privileges" (male, white, thin, cis, Christian, heteronormative, neurotypical, non-"otherkin" (non-schizophrenic)) people different from them have, or MUH lack of equality. A figurehead of anti-GGers--Anita Sarkeesian--has made a very lucrative career whining about "oppression" in video games and pop culture.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11 2014, @02:27AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11 2014, @02:27AM (#114705)

        And by "lucrative" we mean, gets threatened a lot, spends a lot of time on public service, and doesn't get paid for it. Unless you're counting 32 cents in youtube revenue.