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