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Yes, I have been banned from Twitter for allegedly "abusive and harassing" behavior. How ironic since I am the only often asking people not to engage in personal attacks, with the common response being a profanity-laced threat or personal attack. The offending tweet was a football jest tweet sent in response to Chris Murphy, a Senator from Connecticut, hammering Tom Brady and his retirement - stating that he wants a good QB and Eli Manning was much better.  Now clearly THAT had to be a joke because anyone in their right mind would know that is notable true. Misinformation if I had ever seen it. 

In response, I chastised him for being a Giants fan and an elected official in New England (last I checked, Connecticut is in New England, even if the western coast thinks that are New Yorkers). So I let him know that he should be ashamed and run out of town 'tarred and feathered." I am guess that the tarred and feather comment is what the algorithm picked up on.And this is where robots will never be able to catch up to humans.  That whole exchange was clearly a joke and in jest. Murphy was picking on Brady and going him a hard time, and I was picking on Murphy. This isn't abuse and harassment.  Its fun and fandom.  Not to the robots though. And my account was "temporarily" suspended to "protect" other twitter users. Never mind that I had been on Twitter for since 2008 (over 13 years) made thousands of tweets and never had any complaints or issues. I was now someone who need protection from.

 I dod have the right to appeal, which I did knowing that nothing would come of it.  I was right, and got the response to my appeal just a few moments after I submitted it.  Robots again for sure. Denied, of course.  So my "temporary" suspension would stay in place. It will be investing to see how long this "temporary" suspension is - my guess os forever.  But we will see, because I cant even delete my account of wanted to. Twitter wont let me.  They left my profile and my thousands of abusive tweets up for all to see.  

There is ONE thing that I can do according to Twitter to restore my account.  Delete he Tweet ( have zero problem with that_ and admit hat I violated Twitters rules and community standards. That's not happening .. . ever. Ever. Ever. When I joke tweet gets you banned after some of the crap that O have endured over the years. I even went through a stage where I reported people threatening violence and using personal attack profanity.  Nothing ever came of it - ever.  I would check the accounts complained of month later and they would still be up. Still spewing personal attacks and profanity at everyone they didn't like.  Twitter look no action.  So no, I will not be admitting to any kind of violations of community standards because Twitter appears to have none. 

I have used Micro.blog in the past and like it.  It doesnt have the scope of opinions and viewpoints that Twitter does, but that is a feature not a bug. The community there's e is rally nice and considerate. I have never seen profanity (a pet peeve of mine if you haven't figured that out yet), nor ny personal attacks. Everyone is respectful and gets along.

And isnt that what social media is supposed to be about.  I was listening to a podcast today by the EFF and it spoke of the ills of social media networks - at least the ones with 2 billion plus users. The EFF's premise was that there is no way that all those people to be respectful and get along. It is never gonna happen.  Just too many people.  A better model, they surmised, was the to have smaller social groups with true common bonds that would actually interact and self-enforce community standards. A bottom up approach rather Han he current top-down approach used by Twitter and Facebook. They were smart to say that this wld only work in smaller, more persona groups though. 

So I am going to join one of these smaller social groups at Micro.blog.  May even try to set up something Mastodon too.  We will see. But I think this is farewell to Twitters - finally.  If they can even interact on a human-level with a long time customer, then I dont need Tham anymore.  All it caused was stress anyway. I'm done (or at least that account is).