Free Speech collides with Cycling Twitter

[matticus]

Suspended (allegedly a lifetime ban?) for this:

To save me typing, is anyone else here aware of this incident? Opinions?!?

 

[winjim]

Suspended (allegedly a lifetime ban?) for this:

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To save me typing, is anyone else here aware of this incident? Opinions?!?

I do follow her but it's the first I've seen of it.

 

[matticus]

Hopefully this is a good thread to read for details:

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/carlafrancome/status/1615807845454254092

 

[theclaud]

Suspended (allegedly a lifetime ban?) for this:

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To save me typing, is anyone else here aware of this incident? Opinions?!?

Oh no! She's one of the best things on Cycling Twitter!

 

[newfhouse]

Hearty agreement with the sentiments above. As an aside, good to see some old faces from round these parts posting on Carla’s thread.

 

[matticus]

I missed this hilarious off-line update from Hannah (posted by Carla on the same thread):

"Haha I’m really ok honest. I was always pushing my luck so it was inevitable once my account got big enough. I should spend less time online anyway, it’s bad for my brain.

Appreciate everyone’s thoughts though. It was fun while it lasted … Don’t worry I will still ..
be horrible to men who deserve it, just in real life. Please make sure to frequently remind everyone that I was very beautiful and always correct ❤️”

 

[AuroraSaab]

She should appeal. Twitter reporting tends to take things at face value and not appreciate a joke.

 

[presta]

At the time of Tier 1-2-3-4 lockdown there was a thread on Twitter with people making humorous suggestions for Tier 5.
"Tier 5: Put a polythene bag over your head" I said, that got me a ban for advocating suicide.

On another occasion, there was a couple in the news for murdering their young son, after which a Tory MP went on with a Tweet calling for the return of capital punishment.
"Would you have seen Sally Clark hang?" I said, and that got me another ban, and for the same reason.

 

[Xipe Totec]

I think Twitter bans (at least in the pre-Elton days) can depend on the source of the complaint. My old account got locked for this - presumably because Lozza took personal exception to being likened to a front bottom:

Hard to see how the actual words constitute the 'offence', but whatever.

What's interesting is that (out of morbid curiosity) I signed up for a new account while I was on holiday last month, just to watch Twitter die. I expected it to be nuked once I started connecting from my home IP but so far it's still up. Maybe a consequence of the whole thing falling to bits under Musk. Tbf it's not much fun these days.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Yes, volume of complaints makes a big difference. Mass reporting is a common tactic to get accounts shut down. She should appeal though. Deleting the comment should have been offered as an option, joke or not. I don't follow her but it doesn't sound like it was a cumulative thing where that post was the last straw.

People post far, far worse and it either goes unnoticed or they let it pass because there are only a few complaints.