Twitter rules ... for thee but not for them
Last Friday morning, a tweet with a suspected vaccine death story crossed my phone screen. A 30-year old father of three passed away in his sleep, suddenly and unexpectedly. The tweet author suspects the COVID-19 “vaccine” as the cause. This tweet is still available and shareable one week later, with over 7,000 interactions.
Around that time, I had just learned about “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” (SADS), thanks to a short, entertaining conversation between GBNews anchor Mark Steyn and commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek (trimmed copy available here). Steyn refers to the June 8 Euro Weekly News headline “Doctors baffled by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) in healthy young people” and asks (rhetorically) how stupid “they” must be to not make the connection between COVID-19 mass vaccination and these deaths.
On a whim, seeing the above tweet, I wanted to quote-retweet it with an added hashtag, and guess what, Twitter suggested #SuddenAdultDeathSyndrom as soon as I had typed “#sudd”, so that’s what I used. However, as I woke up on Saturday morning, I found two identical emails from the censors at Twitter, notifying me that my account had been locked for violating the Twitter Rules. Specifically, I violated Twitter’s “policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19” by using a hashtag suggested by Twitter itself, when quoting a tweet that is not restricted. I had not added anything else to the retweet.
I should note that when I opened my account (directly, not using the link in the email), everything seemed fine (no lock) except that my tweet is marked as misleading and can’t be replied to, shared, or liked. Ironically, Eva Vlaardingerbroek was also targetted by Twitter in response to posting the GB News interview; she writes about it here. Meanwhile, the hashtag #SuddenAdultDeathSyndrome continues to yield plenty of pertinent tweets. This inconsistent, arbitrary censorship is just evil in its banality but I am not in a mood to comment any further.