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Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @12:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @12:46AM (#582452)

    It doesn't matter what the threshold for guilt is if it never gets to the courtroom

    Yes it does.
    One of the reasons why people do not even attempt to take things to the courtroom is because of the low probability of winning the case. Also, people are far more willing to move forward with a case when there are multiple claimants (another positive about the "allegation escrows").

    Thankfully, societal perceptions of women, sex, sexual harassment and assault is changing for the better. However, institutional barriers (presumption of innocence, reliability of testimony, and evidentiary standards) will remain in place and will prevent success in court no matter how supportive society becomes.