With Twitter’s lovely new verification ‘rules,’ where basically anyone who doesn’t agree with their politics could lose their blue check or even be entirely suspended from their site, it’s interesting to see what certain accounts are allowed to get away with.
Like Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
It all started here:
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are women
trans women are womenpass it on
— mx sapphic demon (@dirak_) November 11, 2017
Ben Shapiro responded:
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope
Nopehttps://t.co/TV9Zy0fkBu— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
And Brown with the unfunny ‘punchline’:
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/932591035376529413
Repeatedly even.
Classy.
And since Twitter has admitted it approves of the accounts with blue checkmarks, does this mean Twitter agrees that Shapiro should get punched in the face?
Twitter-approved. ? pic.twitter.com/xhrhx2InQM
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) November 20, 2017
The little blue check looks more and more like a seal of approval.
(Rhetorically!, of course. Don’t come for me, @jack)
— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) November 20, 2017
Like he would. Twitter seems fine with people threatening and harassing Conservatives.
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Don't worry, @ENBrown. Calling on people to punch @benshapiro in the face directly violates Twitter's policy against inciting targeted violence, but it doesn't violate the SPIRIT of the policy; which is precisely to malign easy targets on the Right.
But you knew that. pic.twitter.com/1OvJCuUr4r
— Stephen Herreid (@StephenHerreid) November 20, 2017
Yup.
You have 280 characters. If it was really rhetorical/hyperbole, you could have said so. You didn't.
— Ranger Deep Fried and Thankful (@mecantyping) November 20, 2017
Because she was being all big and bad.
https://twitter.com/IanBallinger925/status/932609992678666240
Only CERTAIN people though, silly.
Oh.
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) November 20, 2017
Congrats you're now no different than Trump was when he was accused of inciting violence. You have the same defense he did too.
— diogenes (@diogenes323bc) November 20, 2017
Let's see if Twitter gives threats a pass if they're followed by a wink and a nod.
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) November 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/Dwarfclone/status/932602473013014528
Wait, we thought that was a climate change thing? Ugh, who can keep up with all of these rules?!
Sounds like someone is incapable of expressing her views intelligently and instead resorts to violence.
— William Keane (@largebill68) November 20, 2017
Suppose you need a man to do this for you, yes?
— Cheesetrader (@cheesetrader1) November 20, 2017
Yikes.
She tried to defend herself, again
My tweet is hyperbole
— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) November 20, 2017
RIGHT.
Nice try, blue check.
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