Tweeter @FearTheFloof suspended once again over a minor insult

@FearTheFloof is a great account we highly recommend following. If you’ll remember, @FearTheFloof ruffled a few feathers back in October by posting an epic thread about mainstream journalists and how they all seem to come from positions of privilege. Who knew that Vox’s über-Left self-proclaimed “Marxist pig” Carlos Maza’s mother and stepfather were tech billionaires?

The next day, @FearTheFloof was gone.

By some miracle, his account was restored a couple of days later. Is it because Twitter could no longer pretend that his account had been suspended solely because he pissed off some journalists by sharing publicly available information and not because he’d actually done anything wrong? And then the account was suspended again.

Hillbilly makes a thread detailing how well-to-do journos from rich families use their powerful platforms in corporate media to harass the powerless. The result of speaking truth to power: pic.twitter.com/eDbIinGYoa

— Anthony Abides (@AnthonyAbides) October 7, 2022

@Oilfield_Rando, who’s no stranger to Twitter suspensions himself, reports Monday that the Floof has been suspended again, reported over a minor insult after tweeting some wrongthink about Ukraine:

Yet another great account suspended for a mild insult in reply an to insult from a bait account with a mass report apparatus behind it.

This one was a long running pillar of a section of twitter, @elonmusk. And he was even a Blue subscriber.

Your mods are hurting your revenue pic.twitter.com/1ZOppPFrLT

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 2, 2023

The common occurrence explained:

1. Real account tweets something funny that goes against the Ukraine narrative

2. Weird low follower account replies with insults/threats

3. Original poster replies with mild insult

4. Original poster banned shortly after for mild insult

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 2, 2023

Firing nearly-all of Twitter wasn’t enough. Needed complete demolition and rebuild.

— cactus2jack (@cactus2jack2) January 2, 2023

It still floors me that mass-reporting schemes still aren’t automatically filtered out as spam and likely harassment. Often they make heavy use of botting, and you can’t seriously tell me that they haven’t figured out how to spot that by now.

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— WolvenOne (@Wolvenone) January 2, 2023

I mean, it’s one thing if you’re getting a report from a lot of disparate unrelated users. However, reports from bots or from people that are known to be affiliated with de-platforming campaigns should be ignored.

Like I said, the former isn’t real and the later is harassment.

— WolvenOne (@Wolvenone) January 2, 2023

I thought this would’ve ended weeks ago, but it appears that there are still rats in the kitchen.

— Governor Dill (@TheGreenOldDill) January 2, 2023

They won’t give up Twitter that easily, it has to be wrested from them the hard way.

— mewrei; tacticool snowpandad (@_mewrei_) January 2, 2023

All of the censorship infrastructure pre-Musk remains post-Musk. Shadow-banning, search banning, reply de-boosting, all of it. And Musk himself has explicitly endorsed shadow-banning and de-boosting. Until that nonsense is removed root and branch, this platform is irredeemable. https://t.co/ZFPMgnLVBg

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 2, 2023

This is why my skepticism keeps on coming back

— The Yossi Schmidt Show (@YossiShow) January 2, 2023

When you employ woke globalists to moderate content, you’re always going to lose freedom of speech and money.

— Steve (@SNitzsche7) January 2, 2023

There are a lot of leftovers from old Twitter, it seems. Algos need tuned. It’s like there’s a war going on within for control of content.

— Cheryl Thaxton (@CherylThaxton) January 2, 2023

All of the censorship framework pre-Musk is still in place.

Shadow-banning, search banning, reply de-boosting, everything.

Aside from reinstating some accounts, nothing has actually changed.

— John D (@RedWingGrips) January 2, 2023

Mods that are abusing their power need to be smoked out and fired. Hopefully, there is a log of who has banned what accounts, and those that are found to be doing the abusing dealt with. Watching others get fired *might* give others pause, and cause them to act more judiciously.

— Bonnie Blue (@BonnieBlueTK) January 2, 2023

No more automated bans. I got banned for TWO WEEKS for saying that NYT “writers deserve a kick in the balls”

— Habitual Line Stepper (@3rddownguy2) January 2, 2023

I hate cats, but this account was an exception.

— geesqrd (@geesqrd) January 2, 2023

Free the Floof.

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Thou shalt not tell the truth: @FearTheFloof has vanished from Twitter after his thread about privileged backgrounds of wealthy lib journos https://t.co/ktAbpqCgwd

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 6, 2022