Tonight Twitter suspended a parody of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s account even though they clearly allow parody accounts and this account followed the rules:
So @twitter has today suspended @AOCPress, which had “parody” in both its name AND its bio. Yet they claim to allow parody in the suspension email itself. Hey @realdonaldtrump your followers are now being mass culled ahead of the election. #meddling pic.twitter.com/XguTnO28jP
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) May 7, 2019
Twitter claims the account was a ‘fake’ account:
See they claim to allow parody but now aren’t even following their own rules in order to cull Trump support / Dem criticism. pic.twitter.com/BDRp8kY8eh
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) May 7, 2019
But the problem with this is that it wasn’t a fake account. It was a legitimate parody account just as Twitter rules specify. Here are those rules:
Look at the screenshot again below. It clearly has the word ‘parody’ labeled in both the NAME and the BIO:
So I guess now Twitter’s own rules don’t even matter anymore. They just do whatever the heck they want and it looks like it’s aimed at protecting Democrats, or at least specific socialist Democrats anyway.
Twitter: parody account poking gentle fun at @AOC gets the account holder banned; vicious, vulgar, defamatory parody of @DevinNunes by a person who advertises herself as smearing people for money, is ok. Different rules for different politics. Terms of Service are a joke.
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) May 7, 2019