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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 14 2017, @07:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the jumping-to-conclusions dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 14 2017, @11:48PM (7 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 14 2017, @11:48PM (#582442) Homepage

    I'm sure that you wouldn't be saying that if somebody had recorded your locker-room chatter and gave the tape to every media outlet.

    Locker-room talk is something all people do, both men and women. You ladies know when we glance at your breasts, but we men also know when you ladies pecker-watch -- especially when its hot out and I've had a few beers and my junk is loose but somewhat turgid and hanging really low.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @01:05AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @01:05AM (#582461)

    Really? You hang out with people who tell you about the violent felonies they've committed which would put them in prison for years and years?
    I've never experienced such a thing.
    The celebrity status White Privilege [wikipedia.org] thing exhibited by the festering monster that is Drumpf is to be condemned.

    ...and after the recording of Drumpf's confession came out, Amber Tamblyn told what's it's like to be the victim of such an attack. [people.com]

    while enjoying a concert in Hollywood with friends, her ex-boyfriend showed up and sexually assaulted her.

    "He's a big guy, taller than me," Tamblyn wrote. "The minute he saw me, he picked me up with one hand by my hair and with his other hand, he grabbed me under my skirt by my vagina--my [pussy] and lifted me up off the floor, literally, and carried me, like something he owned, like a piece of trash, out of the club. His fingers were practically inside of me, his other hand wrapped tightly around my hair. I screamed and kicked and cried."

    She continued, "That part of my body, which the current Presidential Nominee of the United States Donald Trump recently described as something he'd like to grab a woman by, was bruised from my ex-boyfriend's violence for at least the next week."

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 15 2017, @01:27AM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 15 2017, @01:27AM (#582471) Homepage

      Jesus, I kinda liked you until you posted "White Privilege" with a straight-face.

      Get a grip, bro! The progressivism is penetrating into your mind and making you crazy. Don't drink their Kool-aid!

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @04:31AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @04:31AM (#582522)

        The non-fiction book "Black Like Me", [wikipedia.org] written in 1959,
        is the account of a white man who turns his skin dark by taking a drug.
        He also shaves off his (non-kinky) hair.
        He then travels around the segregated South.
        He has the same intellect and morals that he had before he started his transformation; the only difference is his outward appearance, yet now (white) people treat him like something they need to scrape off their shoe.

        Give it a try for a couple of months and report back.

        OK, things aren't as awful as in the overtly segregated South, but white people have never had to wonder if they got pulled over by a cop or didn't get the job or got a lousy table in a restaurant because of their skin color.

        ...and Eddie Murphy did a take on this with "White Like Me". [google.com]

        Now, you seem to agree that wearing an expensive suit allows somebody to get away with stuff others don't.

        ...but even if you're a PhD college professor, [wikipedia.org] if you are black, you're still getting rousted by some white guy [wikipedia.org] who barely made it out of high school.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @05:46AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @05:46AM (#582553)

      Let's check that against the standard: "When you're a star, they let you do it. Grab them by the pussy."

      She says "I screamed and kicked and cried.". Well, that doesn't sound anything like "they let you do it" to me. Is this her way of giving consent?

      Trump had consent: "they let you do it"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @04:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @04:40AM (#582524)

    In my opinion, it was more like a taping of Access Hollywood than like a locker room.

  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday October 16 2017, @03:02PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday October 16 2017, @03:02PM (#583012) Journal

    Locker-room talk is something all people do, both men and women.

    No, it ABSOLUTELY is not. Perhaps you're just an asshole?