Monday, August 26, 2019

Twitter has rejected my account suspension appeal again. I've appealed yet again.

I know it might seem like I'm beating my head against a brick wall repeatedly appealing suspension of my @ChuckBaggett account, but I've read claims that accounts have be reopened after a much longer period of suspension than mine, and after filing repeated appeals, so I'm acting on the chance that that's true. I don't know if I an make my chances any worse than they seem now.

Twitter has rejected my appeal of the suspension of my @ChuckBaggett account once again. It's been suspended since July 8th. I've appealed again. Here's the text of my latest appeal. It's run together blocks because Twitter provides only the most primitive tools for writing appeals in, as if it is 1995 instead of 2019.

You are misinterpreting a completely harmless tweet as a threat or promotion of violence and have senselessly and unjustly suspended my account.  Your email about the suspension showed one tweet that you claimed was a threat or promoting violences, but it wasn't, and since it wasn't, you should not have suspended my account, and you should now correct this error by unsuspending my account. Here's a link to a blog post I wrote on why your judgment about what my tweet meant and why you should restore my account. Reply to Twitter re @ ChuckBaggett account suspension  Please ask @Delbius to look into this. I have used Twitter for over a decade for several purposes; one of those purposes has been to campaign for peace, non-violence, and a respect for human rights. I'll be glad  to delete any content you indicate as being threatening or a promotion of violence. 

I linked to a website written by someone else expressing their views, not mine. Surely we are allowed to link to websites as part of a discussion?  I tried to convey how the popular Gadsden flag symbol turns me off because it makes me feel like people using the symbol like it because it is threatening, because the rattlesnake is a symbol of the threat of being bitten by a rattlesnake.  This was not a threat to attack anyone. The phrase "I will kill you" in that tweet what I feel the people who like the Gadsden flag are trying to say by wearing it. I am not one of them. My account has ten years of my writing and is the only real connection I have with the world and it's cruel and hurtful to deprive me access to it because your system has made an error in interpreting my completely harmless and non-threatening words. 

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