May 20th 2023 archive

In case anyone’s keeping track of this…

In case anyone thinks the pedophile (on Twitter) problem has gone away, it has not.

I tried to… make these screenshots line up better, but that’s the best I can do for now. This person in question, who people have been mass reporting for at least a month now, has had two previous accounts suspended with the suspensions upheld, and Twitter refuses to suspend him again. He is also a convicted pedophile, and prior to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter they were given proof of his identity and criminal conviction and suspended one of his accounts for that alone. Now all Twitter is doing is shadowbanning him, which essentially means that his handle does not and will not populate search results. That doesn’t get rid of the pedophile problem, though. As long as he remains on Twitter, minors (ages 13-17) are not safe on the site.