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The actress, who has emerged as a Hollywood voice in the Harvey Weinstein sexual-assault scandal, revealed that Twitter had locked her account on Wednesday night.
Rose McGowan had a hold placed on her Twitter account Wednesday night, an act that quickly sparked outrage among the many users who have been following her posts ever since news first broke of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
The actress, who has emerged as a Hollywood voice after finding herself thrust into the center of the developing story of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault allegations against the movie mogul, took to her Instagram and Facebook accounts to relay the news of her temporary suspension, writing cryptically that "TWITTER HAS SUSPENDED ME. THERE ARE POWERFUL FORCES AT WORK. BE MY VOICE. #ROSEARMY."
She added a screenshot (below) from a message from Twitter telling her that she had violated their terms of service and that she would be locked out for 12 hours once she deleted certain tweets. She posted the message late Wednesday night.
As of 7:20 a.m. PT on Thursday, Twitter had unlocked McGowan's account, telling THR the temporary lock was due to the actress tweeting out a private number, which falls under the private information violation under Twitter Rules. McGowan deleted the post to regain access.
Are social media platforms common carriers, or not?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Jiro on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:42PM (1 child)
1) She broke a clearly defined rule about doing something (posting a phone number) which it's a bad idea to allow in general. This isn't like all the right-wing bans where the reason for the ban is vague so that Twitter (or Google, etc.) doesn't have to defend their decision.
2) What's the alternative? Allow one person to post the phone number of another person, as long as that second person is a piece of scum who deserves it? Do we really want Twitter becoming judge and jury, deciding which people are bad enough that they deserve being doxed and which don't?
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday October 15 2017, @04:49AM
Exactly. I was once refused the service of a ferry (common carrier was originally about physical goods, eg railroads) due to having a broken gas container (plastic bag instead of lid). They're terms of service (and the law in that case) were clear about gasoline on a ferry.