In case any of you are wondering, the convicted pedophile who was ban evading several suspensions on Twitter has had almost all of his suspended accounts reinstated. This shouldn’t even surprise me but it does.

At this point, and entirely as predicted (since so many other people feel the same), I have no faith in Twitter.

This man’s accounts were suspended, burner account after burner account, when Twitter had become aware that he had made yet another account in the days and months before Musk. Now they make it clear that they ignore reports made on him — they sure act on reports that he makes fairly quickly though, letting him game the report system to shut people up that he doesn’t like — and are more than happy with the idea of him actively contributing on a site that minors are allowed to use. As much as a possible cognitive or intellectual disability is the cause for him to continue attempting to conceal his identity from people, his local police department has continued to be more useful than I’d ever thought they would be… I thought it would take a lot more effort to convince them to act against a person who, for so many people, “was just on the Internet”, but I’m guessing that he has been a problem for them for awhile given how quickly they’ve tended to act. They’ve let people who have called in or contacted them with concerns know that they do indeed do periodic well checks on him — imagine being so vile that what you say on the Internet causes you to get well checks at your home and you’ve more or less imagined this dude — and they’ve confirmed that the well checks are being done on the correct person, which people who request well checks are generally allowed to ask and be given relevant information regarding. To add insult to injury, his local police department has also admitted that his behavior is so… bad that it has caused an ongoing investigation to start, especially because it involves so many people from other cities, states, provinces, and even countries, and in the interim are actively encouraging people that he harasses to seek out restraining orders against him by contacting their county’s criminal justice unit. They are doing so much that they don’t have to do to help people out here.

At some point I might divulge his identity — I don’t want him to feel some sick sense of glee out of becoming searchable for what he’s done given that he so desperately wants the resultant attention — as well as link to his child sexual abuse registry listing, which he has to remain on for life and which has to remain public information courtesy of federal law. I might also begin to make a list of… reasons we know who he is in spite of various efforts to deny it. As time gets on it’s like he just confirms his identity in more and more sick ways.