This is a bit of a rerun, but we wonder how much of it we’ll be seeing Saturday. As Twitchy reported earlier in the day, Stephen Gutowski, one of the best Second Amendment reporters out there, why Twitter was warning people that links to his site, The Reload, could be “unsafe.” We’d assumed because his site is about guns and gun rights, and Twitter listed as one of its excuses that the site might contain “violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm” — a bogus excuse to be certain, but what other explanation was there?
Now National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke is saying that links to his personal website, which consists of a contact form, newsletter sign-up link, and a short biography, also merits a warning from Twitter.
Hi @TwitterSupport, I know that we’ve defined “safe” down quite a lot recently, but it seems pretty unlikely that my personal website—which contains a contact form, a newsletter sign-up link, and a short bio—warrants this warning when clicked to from Twitter. pic.twitter.com/mxciMcA6FO
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 23, 2022
Charles: try using https in the URL.
— Chris Retford (@ChrisRetford) April 23, 2022
Thanks, but it’s not that. The site automatically upgrades the scheme anyway. That’s just the way Twitter renders the URL on its form.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 23, 2022
Ideological warning, and they know it.
— ʀicobert1 (@ricobert11) April 23, 2022
How could anyone be rooting for a change of management in this well oiled machined.
— guyonahorse (@guyonahorse) April 23, 2022
At this point I think Musk buying twitter adds 3-5 points +R to the generic ballot in Nov.
— adam roth (@adamroth75) April 23, 2022
https://twitter.com/RandPaulsMask/status/1517908533211111425
Not, it’s not “spam.”
via Mozilla's Observatory
[Third Party Tab]URL Scanners showing results for:https://t.co/7blKl8scUY pic.twitter.com/kXN8EL90zu
— Vapid Surplus (@VapidSurplus) April 23, 2022
via Quttera pic.twitter.com/HWtUu5pOWg
— Vapid Surplus (@VapidSurplus) April 23, 2022
Zero potentially suspicious files.
It's one of a series of mistakes that always seem to go against a particular viewpoint for some reason
— Suspect is Hatless. Repeat…. Hatless. (@PerpIsHatless) April 23, 2022
Warning: this material may reveal the mainstream media has been lying to you
— Nick (@Nickster0188) April 23, 2022
Hey @StephenGutowski looks like you aren’t alone
— UnhyphenatedConservative (@ConservaPops) April 23, 2022
Hmmm there seems to be a pattern this morning
— That Chick From Seattle (@burnedinseattle) April 23, 2022
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