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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: 1) by DECbot on Monday October 22 2018, @09:26PM (3 children)
There once was a man from Nantuckit,
Who tweeted from a bucket.
His snark was woke.
His fortunes were broke.
As for the final line of this poem, I said "Ah fuck it."
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday October 23 2018, @10:02AM (2 children)
nothing like an anticlimaxy last line, indeed, e.g.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:19PM (1 child)
Ah, well, it may have been tweeted from a bucket located on an undisclosed Massachusetts island.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:18AM
And Twitter AI classifying it as a racist ISOLATIONIST troll bucket post paid by putin through erdogan.
Account abandoned.