Hey @twitter, free my mf people!! #AnonFamily I was #suspended yesterday, @KYAnonymous today, who's turn tomorrow? @support, you're WEAK!
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#KnightSec (@AnonymousJaye) January 09, 2013As Twitchy reported, activists associated with the Occupy and Anonymous movements have been pressuring authorities in Steubenville, Ohio, to expand their investigation of an alleged rape which took place in August. Two 16-year-old boys face a trial in February, but protesters assert that more might have been involved and a cover-up is underway to protect popular athletes in the community.
Today, a Twitter account associated with Anonymous was suspended. @KYAnonymous, who has been a driving force behind the Occupy Steubenville movement and appeared on “Anderson Cooper 360″ complete with Guy Fawkes mask, and began tweeting today from a backup account.
everyone message @twitter @support tell them that my timeline is public, i do not threaten, and im wrongfully suspended—
KYAnonymous (@KyAnonymous1) January 09, 2013
OH srsly FFS, @KYAnonymous is suspended in mid DM?—
Eve Vawter (@EveVawter) January 09, 2013
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Twitter?!!! "@petitcodiacgirl: @JustBatCat @KYAnonymous has been suspended!!!"—
Skip da Zip™ (@SKIPdaZIP) January 09, 2013
: @twitter @support @KYanonymous timeline is public, he does not threaten, and is wrongfully suspended.—
€nemy 0f T3h State (@olfashdeb) January 09, 2013
Dear @twitter and @support, the timeline of @KYAnonymous is public,he sure doesn't threat, and im wrongfully suspended. Pls unsuspend!!—
TheNewMovement (@TheNewMovement3) January 09, 2013
I'm kinda pissed at the fact they suspended @KYAnonymous 's twitter … he is for THE GOOD what is wrong with you idiots???—
Sarah✌ (@amu_SEM_ent) January 09, 2013
We’re well aware of the tendency of conservative tweeters to land in “Twitter Gulag,” a happening so common as to have inspired the nascent Twitter Gulag Defense Network. Was KYAnonymous suspended for an alleged threat sent via direct message? Another Twitter user, @Ihazcandy, says yes. KYAnonymous says he was framed.
Whoa @KYAnonymous just got suspended. Wonder if it was because of the alleged threat to @ihazcandy.—
Nathan St. Pierre (@NateDSaint) January 09, 2013
#knightsec KYAnonymous has been suspended from twitter for making death threats to me. choose ur leaders carefully http://t.co/fAg6TBFG—
i H4Z C4NDY (@Ihazcandy) January 09, 2013
just because someone does good acts, don't make them all good. how many positive public figures end up being pedophiles? #knightsec—
i H4Z C4NDY (@Ihazcandy) January 09, 2013
now his followers get butthurt rather than accepting that he was two faced, smiles in the public, and a evil wolf in private.—
i H4Z C4NDY (@Ihazcandy) January 09, 2013
@Zorada your leader is a terrorist, accept it. there are in fact good anons, but there are TONS of bad apples like #knightsec's founder KY—
i H4Z C4NDY (@Ihazcandy) January 09, 2013
@KyAnonymous1 gets primary account banned by threatening @Ihazcandy… Because @Ihazcandy exposed #knightsec hosting child porn? #anonymous—
Caffeine Security (@CaffSec) January 10, 2013
@twitter @support @KYANONYMOUS was suspended because of @ihazcandy READ http://t.co/IzKJbgg7 #OpRollRedRoll I was framed irc proved it—
KYAnonymous (@KyAnonymous1) January 09, 2013
I want you to know my bro @KyAnonymous1 is innocent! He would not say such a thing like that! We wouldn't be after pedos and rapists ifhedid—
DidITellYou (@Anon_Dox_323) January 10, 2013
Filmmaker Lee Stranahan, narrator of “Occupy Unmasked,” cautions against Anonymous and its methods.
It's not hard to believe that @KYAnonymous would threaten someone. Anyone else see their arson tweet directly, live?—
Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) January 09, 2013
After @KYAnonymous threatens someone with arson and killing their kids, I wonder if they get another Anderson Cooper guest shot—
Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) January 09, 2013
@Stranahan I got asked my opinion of this case, stated I don't know the facts; let a trial happen, got told I foster violent rape.—
Corey Stephenson (@bowfornoking) January 09, 2013
And that's their point — they don't want a fair trial. They want a result they decided, facts be damned. @bowfornoking—
Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) January 09, 2013
Thats no bull either. We want a trial by jury and they want bodies hanging in the public square @Stranahan—
Corey Stephenson (@bowfornoking) January 09, 2013
During that Anderson Cooper appearance, KYAnonymous said that though Anonymous was not the judge or jury, ” it’s fair to say that we are the executioner.”
@Twitter: @KYAnonymous has been wrongfully suspended. His timeline is public, his heart and intent is obvious and just. @occupysteubenville—
#KnightSec (@theCrimsonCurse) January 10, 2013
For now, the justice system in Steubenville is responsible for determining who’s guilty in the rape case. Twitter, meanwhile, will have to use whatever evidence it has to determine if the “heart and intent” of the “executioner” behind the mask is in conflict with its terms of service, if not the law itself.
Related:
#OccupySteubenville rape protest casts Anonymous in new role, but what’s behind the masks?
David Shuster gives shout-out to Occupy’s ‘inspiring’ rape protest
