Last night on Twitter, Mother Jones engagement editor Ben Dreyfuss — son of Hollywood legend Richard Dreyfuss — had some harsh words for Vox and an article they published on how “extreme wealth is overrated.”
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687488130606317569
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687488183328706564
But then he might have stepped over the line:
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687488277260165120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Dreyfuss did admit he was “mean”:
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687488847299670016
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/687489040640282624
The author of the Vox hot take, David Heinemeier Hansson, then asked why Mother Jones “accepts” such language from its editors:
Surprised that @motherjones accepts this from its editors. For shame. (Reply to my Vox piece) https://t.co/6huYaIttjp
— DHH (@dhh) January 14, 2016
We’d chalk this up to one, gigantic “meh” if not for last week’s news that Twitter unverified Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos — @Nero — for an unspecified violation of Twitter’s terms of service. Yiannopoulos said at the time that it was because of his conservative politics and he wrote last night that the liberal Dreyfuss “will never be censured by @twitter, because he has the right politics.”
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/687562350921166848
Yiannopoulos has a point. We don’t believe Dreyfuss actually wanted Vox’s Hansson to blow his head off, but it will be interesting to see if Twitter punishes Dreyfuss in any way for his over-the-top rhetoric (not that they should or that they should have taken away @Nero’s blue check mark):
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Isn't this what gets a @Twitter account suspended, or at least takes away verification? https://t.co/yQd9cnH44N
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) January 14, 2016
Does @bendreyfuss violent tweet cause his deverification @support @jack @TwitterIR Ppl curious @nero @instapundit https://t.co/3rkzDeOTXa
— LukeMullen???⚛️1% (@Luke1732Mullen) January 14, 2016
Hey @twitter… gonna deverify him for this? #consistency https://t.co/0Um8qBi0gk
— Tangent Reality (@tangentreality) January 14, 2016
So when is @twitter going to unverify/suspend this account? https://t.co/U5oLVoxGG0
— L. (@ElleDunc) January 14, 2016
https://twitter.com/MusicManDon72/status/687562333158273024
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