May 15, 2021 01:30 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/15/22437108/twitter-policy-censor-every-tweet
The Twitter policy that could temporarily censor every single one of your tweets
On Tuesday, a noted Palestinian-American journalist reporting live from protests near Jerusalem was suddenly and mysteriously silenced on Twitter — with every single tweet replaced by the message “@MariamBarghouti’s account is temporarily unavailable because it violates the Twitter Media Policy.” It was a mistake, the company quickly admitted, and her tweets were quickly restored.
But it turns out that one part of the incident was not a mistake. While Twitter may have taken action on this person’s account in error, there actually is one particular situation where Twitter reserves the right to make your tweets disappear. And — if you ask me — it’s super, super dumb.
ive been on twitter what feels like my entire life and ive never seen...
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