Below is my latest Twitter account suspension appeal for my @ChuckBaggett account.
Your email said my @ChuckBaggett account was suspended due to:Violating our rules against posting violent threats. You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.Below is the one purportedly offending tweet out of my over 250,000 total tweet. It starts with @libertarianism because my tweet was a reply to a tweet from @libertarianism.
@libertarianism Libertarians are better known for defending the right to own and carry weapons, with some advocating privately owned nuclear weapons. Many libertarians love that Gadsden flag with the snake that means, if you bother me too badly, I'll kill you.
This tweet does not contain a violent threat against any person or group.
This part, "Libertarians are better known for defending the right to own and carry weapons, " is what I consider to be a fact. It's certainly not a threat of any sort or a wish for harm to befall any person or group.
This part, "with some advocating privately owned nuclear weapons," is a fact. Some people who identify as libertarian do say they accept the private ownership of nuclear weapons." Me saying that other people hold that view is not a threat or a wish for harm to befall anyone.
This part, "Many libertarians love that Gadsden flag with the snake that means, "If you bother me too badly, I'll kill you," is not a threat to any person or group, nor a wish for harm to befall any person or group.
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| This is my curse, the Gadsden flag. |
The Gadsden flag is a flag that was popular in the American Revolution, and is still popular today, and especially popular among people who support the right to bear arms, which includes libertarians and millions of billions of other people. The Gadsden flag as I'm referring to it has a rattlesnake on it with the words "Don't Tread On Me."
People who like the Gadsden flag don't see it as threatening; they see it as the opposite, because to them the rattlesnake is a creature that is very reluctant to strike humans. Rattlesnakes may hide from humans, and they warn those who come too close by rattling their rattles, which allows people to protect their safety by taking a detour away from the rattlesnake.
I don't like the Gadsden flag because to me it seems like a threat. I feel like the Gadsden flag can be be seen as threatening, as if the rattlesnake in the Gadsden flag, if it could talk, is saying "If you come too close, I'll kill you."
I was not threatening to kill anyone by expressing my negative opinion of the Gadsden flag, nor was I wishing harm to any person or group.
If @libertarianism, the account I was replying too, interpreted my tweet wrong, I'm sorry they interpreted my tweet wrong, but my account should not have been suspended due to their misinterpretation of my tweet.
If there are any other tweets you think are threats of harm to any person or group, or a wish of harm to a person or group, please let me know about those tweets, so I can explain to you why they are not threats to or wishes for harm to any person or group and are thus not in violation of Twitter rules.
I am very sorry I used the phrase "I'll kill you" and will attempt to write more clearly in the future.
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| I don't like the Gadsden flag as a symbol for libertarianism, but many libertarians do. To me it's threatening looking. I don't like it because it's threatening looking. I can picture the snake, if it could talk, as saying something like, "If you step on me, I'll kill you." The phrase "I'll kill you" in the preceding sentence, and its appearance in this sentence, are not threats by me to kill anyone or any group, not wishes for harm to any person or group. |
