It's a twisted thing. Morons think posting copyrighted videos on YouTube is "Freedom of Speech." It's a refrain from all the big companies such as Google and Wikipedia and even the jerks who own the "I Has Cheezeburgers" Cat-Parody site. See, if you STEAL photos, if you DON'T back up your sources, if you PLAGIARIZE, it's ALL good because it's covered by "Freedom of Speech."
Downloading the latest albums from a blog? "Freedom of Speech." Disrupting a football game to sorrowfully take a knee because your country isn't perfect? "Freedom of Speech," even if it takes place in a private stadium. Except a fan who starts yelling racist remarks in that stadium will be escorted out, with no ticket refund. "Freedom of Speech" has its limits, which are judiciously applied. Or, not so judiciously, since most people don't know anything about law.
The "Good News" is that after a trending hashtag urged people to BOYCOTT TWITTER, Twitter decided that Rose's suspension would be temporary. They even explained why she was suspended, which they don't usually do.
TWITTER, along with FACEBOOK, EBAY, PAYPAL and the rest, play Fascist games with "Freedom of Speech." Their ace in the hole, is that to use their services, you must agree with their TOS ("Terms of Service"). The TOS pretty much gives them ownership over your account. They can interpret the rules any way they like. Leave a "bad" comment in the Ebay "community forum," especially about their inept phone support or their peculiar CEO, and BANG. "You can no longer use the community forum. Another infraction and you are suspended." Post fake nudes of Rose McGowan, and that's ok with eBay. In fact, it seems to be OK with Rose herself, as when someone on Twitter alerted her to the problem and advised her to ask for a takedown, she didn't respond. That's her Freedom to Not Speak. Which is strange for such an ardent feminist. When do feminists go silent over creepy guys posting fake nudes and "fantasy" photos of actresses being whipped and beaten?
The Great Tweet, or whoever the CEO is, never told Gambling Rose what made her crap out. Their form emails simply say "You have violated our rules. You are suspended," blah blah. It was only after Rose fought back and got her Peeps to Tweet up a storm, and to rally the media, that she was reinstated:
"....her account was temporarily locked because one of her Tweets included a private phone number, which violates our Terms of Service.
"The Tweet was removed and her account has been unlocked. We will be clearer about these policies and decisions in the future."
Here's more from ABC News, including the little tidbit that TWITTER can be SELECTIVE about phone numbers, and whether Tweeting them is an offense or not. Heh heh, Internet bullies ALWAYS have "options" when it comes to "interpreting" the "terms of service."
McGowan successfully got a settlement out of Weinstein years ago, for $100,000, for "an alleged incident in a hotel room at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997." Her beef with the Mussolini of Internet Sales, Bezos of Amazon, is that Bezos is apparently still doing business with Weinstein in some way. Weinstein has been fired by Miramax and doesn't seem to be in any position to produce anything but feces in a toilet.
Meanwhile, back at Twitter: "WE WILL BE CLEARER ABOUT THESE POLICIES AND DECISIONS IN THE FUTURE."
You think they've explained their policy to however many 100's of people they've shut down today? You think they've given these people an email or a phone number to call so they can discuss the situation with a REAL PERSON? Twitter suspends people every day for speaking their mind, and being watchdogs, and sending out maybe a half-dozen Tweets to key media sites (the same things one might send out in a press release, if people still new how to use paper and stamps).
Let's acknowledge that "Freedom of Speech" doesn't mean that some asshole can have a Twitter account just to vent racism. But let's also acknowledge that if you say one word against Trump, and you have any kind of following, you'll find yourself snowed under with shouts of "Snowflake" and "Libtard" and, as Art Garfunkel once phrased it, "the old two-word suggestion." And Twitter would explain, if they bothered, that opinions are allowed because it's..."Freedom of Speech." As THEY interpret it.
Rose McGowan got an IMMEDIATE suspension with NO explanation.
If you go to Tweetie-Pie's "TOS" page, you'll find a long, long list of ways you can be thrown off the site. Many of them simply deny "Freedom of Speech." If, in their opinion, you've posted too many Tweets, that's enough to be suspended. There's nothing called "Freedom to be a Yenta," I guess. If you want to get five or ten different people to read your opinion of something, THAT could be considered "spamming." You didn't know "Freedom of Speech" had a limit on how many people you can speak to?
SPAM? Spam, spam, spam, spam, spammmity spam. Some drone at Twitter will decide if you've crossed that pink, smelly, slushy line into SPAM:
That's just PART of it. That's only one aspect of Twitter's "Terms of Service." HOW did Rose make a stink? Maybe we'll never know. Twitter, like the rest of the Fascist Goons who run the Internet and are a monopoly, is under no obligation to explain anything.
Well, THANKS, TWITTER for keeping people safe from Rose McGowan. You know, if she sent me a Tweet, it would never occur to me to just BLOCK the woman. But now I'll never get a Tweet from her, so I can sleep at night. Oh. I actually DO sleep at night.
You think Donald Trump hasn't violated Twitter's TERMS OF SERVICE?
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