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Atheist vlogger Thunderf00t reports that Jordan Owen, Slade Villena, and Mykeru were "all suspended from twitter for no reason." Jordan Owen is the co-producer of the documentary The Sarkeesian Effect, a critique of the methods of controversial vlogger Anita Sarkeesian. Mykeru is the producer of The Block Bot and the Dumbification of the Beeb, a critique of the BBC Newsnight segment "Talking to the Twitter Trolls and those Who Study them". Slade Villena is a former writer for Gamasutra and the founder of indie game developer Rogue Star Games.
Thunderf00t himself was suspended from Twitter for two weeks in September for unclear reasons. At that time Twitter had also banned the account of "The Camera Lady", the researcher for a video series accusing award-winning developer Phil Fish and the Independent Games Festival of racketeering.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday November 10 2014, @02:28PM
You seem to be missing my point entirely, and acting as though Twitter has some sort of responsibility to host whatever its users want to host, when no such obligation exists.
To use a meatspace metaphor here: Let's say something newsworthy happens near your front door, and a local news reporter comes to your house to interview you about what happened (this has actually happened to me when a high-speed police chase ended on my lawn). That reporter may use what you say in their report, but they also might not. Or maybe they'll want to include it and their editor says no. But in any event, they are under no obligation to include a word you say in the story. You gave the reporter the information to do with as they will, and they'll do whatever they want with it.
Sure, law enforcement can and at this point probably should be involved in dealing with the criminal threatening cases, but Twitter has every right to censor its users, for whatever reason it likes. It has no responsibility to the public discourse, and ultimately all it is is you trading the contents of your 140 character messages and targeted advertising eyeballs for a possibly wider audience for what you have to say.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 10 2014, @09:07PM
and acting as though Twitter has some sort of responsibility to host whatever its users want to host, when no such obligation exists.
Not a legal or economic obligation, but the argument could be made for an ethical one.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"