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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: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday November 10 2014, @03:05PM
"Help help, I'm being repressed! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, didn't you?"
Saying "if you're going to talk like that, you aren't doing it here" is different from "being out to get ya". Being out to get ya would involve, say, a semi-organized effort to share information on exactly where to find you with those who have been threatening to rape or murder you. And then doing the same thing to others who spoke up in your defense.
There's a difference between epic nerd rage (e.g. taking a sledgehammer to your computer in anger) and threatening or carrying out real-world violence against those who you're raging against. It's not like if somebody killed Felicia Day or Anita Sarkeesian, she'd just respawn 60 seconds later at a rally point.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.