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Social media giant Twitter has banned a Belgian Elite Dangerous player for tweeting a poem in reply to a tweet from the official game's account. Tim Wellens, the now-suspended Twitter user, has yet to regain access to his account at the time of writing, despite multiple appeals.
[...] In Elite Dangerous, the Thargoids are an alien race that is at odds with humanity. Twitter caught onto the threatening language that Wellens used — despite directing it at a fictional group — and suspended his account. According to Eurogamer, in an email to Wellens, Twitter support explained that they took action because he violated their "rules against posting violent threats."
He has since appealed the decision, pointing out that he "never ever threatened a real person or organization on Twitter."
"Thargoid or foe, I'm coming to kill you, was directed to the thargoids and enemies in the game," he told Eurogamer.
His appeal was met with a computer-generated email, and Wellens followed up by re-appealing his case. As of Oct. 8, his account remains out of his hands.
Good ole Artificial "Intelligence"...
Source: https://techraptor.net/content/twitter-suspends-elite-dangerous-player-for-posting-poetry
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @08:18AM (8 children)
The only thing that could save the world from madness is we all abandon these online traps. They have the right to impose their own rules on their platforms, however cruel and unusual or capricious and arbitrary. And boy do they use that right. Perhaps currently the intention is mostly to save money for the overlords but this results in madness for the users. We as a society should not accept their terms. We must not normalize madness.
Read their fucking Terms of Service and Privacy Policies &c &c word for word. Then you will definitely not happily accept them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:22AM
Write a script, that opens accounts. Each account sends a protest over the TOS. As soon as the protest is sent, the bot closes the account. Create a botnet. All the bots run that same script. Soon, there will be leventy-leven trillion people on record, all protesting the TOS.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:31AM (3 children)
*** Irony Meter Triggered ***
"The only thing that could save the world from madness is we all abandon these online traps." posted AC on the internet.
(Score: 4, Touché) by hemocyanin on Saturday October 20 2018, @03:10PM (2 children)
Yeah except there are actual real people here keeping things going and not arbitrarily banning anyone. Secondly, freely allowing AC posting is 180 degrees from what goes on with Twitter et al.
A month or so ago I lost my moderating privileges for 30 days for misusing the "spam" mod. I have every reason to think that my action was reviewed by a person who compared that mod to the text of the post in question. The sanction was totally fair. With Twitter, my account would just be deleted. The key factor isn't that both Soylent and Twitter are internet sites for discussion, the key factor is how different sites treat their users.
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:55AM
The problem is that one site is a few orders of magnitude larger. Here with a few thousand users and probably a lot less at any time, it is easy to have volunteer person review spam mods and IIRC, they're about the only things reviewed. Meanwhile twitter has how many users? And how many things that need reviewed and seems to not have a way of generating money to pay moderators.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday October 21 2018, @03:54PM
Twitter has always been VERY FAIR to me. Except for the HORRIBLE 11 minutes with the Rogue employee!!
(Score: 3, Touché) by legont on Saturday October 20 2018, @01:30PM (2 children)
Only terrorists and pedophiles are not on twitter and facebook.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 20 2018, @02:56PM (1 child)
Damn, then I must be either a terrorist or a pedophile. How do I find out which I am? ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @06:36PM
There is a simple answer without the need for false dichotomies. OP never said it was mutually exclusive so the safest bet is to consider yourself both.