We’ve been missing something today here at Twitchy, and it’s tweets from Jim Treacher, whose Twitter handle is @jtLOL. Turns out he was suspended for — get this — targeted harassment, or “an attempt to harass, intimidate, or silence someone else’s voice.”
By calling that person a stupid liar.
Here’s Sean Medlock, who was kind enough to tweet on behalf of the suspended Treacher (wink wink, nudge nudge).
Well, it happened again. pic.twitter.com/cyBpzIsgI0
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
Just got an e-mail from Twitter Support. I'm suspended for this. People are spreading a lie about Mike Pence, and I pointed out that it was a lie. So now I'm suspended. pic.twitter.com/dteI9SCcRs
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
“You are a stupid liar” … “And I noted that you’re stupid because you’re stupid. Now quote Pence inciting violence.” Sounds legit to us. If you don’t let someone know they’re a stupid liar passing around fake quotes, how are they going to know?
This guy called me stupid, and I called him stupid back. He lied about Pence, and I pointed out that he was lying. So now *I'm* suspended.
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
Mike Pence has not incited violence against anybody. The only evidence these lovely people could produce was this, which is fake. pic.twitter.com/I4AWZhdGOe
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
It's only a matter of time before this account gets suspended too. I guess it's dumb to respond to "You're st*pid" with "You're st*pid," but I'm not sure why it's a banning offense. And isn't spreading fake news against the Twitter rules?
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
We were assured back in July that “election integrity” was Twitter’s No. 1 priority and fake news was its biggest target.
This was all fine, apparently. pic.twitter.com/T2h5VMjh9g
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
I guess I should just block people like that, when it's obvious they're just trolling. Oh well.
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
Blocking me wasn't enough. Calling me "evil" wasn't enough. ("St*pid" is banworthy, but "evil" isn't?) pic.twitter.com/ztv6QHHRL6
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
To be fair, it was a conditional statement; you’re only evil if you can’t see Pence is evil, and well, dude’s evil.
Alright. Whatever. ?
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019
Hey @Jack @TwitterSupport
This is just silly. @jtLOL didn’t do anything wrong. Why do you keep doing this? pic.twitter.com/AgVRlYM1Rn— Mellific (@Mel_lific) February 3, 2019
I was censured for this: pic.twitter.com/DveyP5UzZY
— Zionist Redneck (@gone_galt) February 2, 2019
Ah yes, the targeted harassment of telling laid-off journalists to learn to code.
Your handle is "Learning To Code", that's why. Twitter bans anyone who uses that name.
— AA7YA?? (@aa7ya) February 2, 2019
Now we don’t know which was the targeted harassment: calling the stupid liar a stupid liar or using the name Learning to Code.
Isn't this the same @Policy that just sent out a tweet in past day telling us how important an open, free Internet was? Oh…that was just about Net Neutrality not about Twitter actually allowing freedom of speech on their site. Hypocrites.
— Judith Lankau (@judith_lankau) February 2, 2019
It's a violation of the leftist groupthink. Twitter and all of the other social media platforms are controlled by extremely rich people that are more than happy to feed garbage to the masses to keep them as ignorant as possible.
— What the what? (@SensicalOne) February 2, 2019
Are there actual real people out there that actually believe that’s a real quote?
— waxy gordon (@asihtos) February 2, 2019
…to see YOUR reply to this thread, I had to choose 'see more replies that may contain offensive language'. I'm guessing 'stupid' and 'liar' used together tips the scale
— David Hodge (@duna6430) February 2, 2019
A lot of mine are tagged offensive.
— William Belcher (@EdB_Ohio) February 2, 2019
It's the smirk.
— Icrealjc (@icrealjc) February 2, 2019
We’re going to have to be really careful with our headlines if “stupid” sets off the hate speech sensors.
Related:
‘Like Covington? OH WAIT!’ Twitter claims it’s targeted harassment of certain peeps not ‘LEARN TO CODE’ that’s causing suspensions https://t.co/TLoianHxfR
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 28, 2019
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