I need to come with some kind of category, tag, or something for deplatforming problematic people.

At any rate, the convicted pedophile that people have been trying to deplatform from Twitter has a history of accounts being justifiably suspended, although almost all of these suspensions occurred before Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. People have kind of memorized what a lot of them are though because ban evasion is supposed to be against the rules on Twitter — if you’ve had an account suspended, let alone permanently suspended, you’re not supposed to make any other accounts on the site… you’re literally not allowed to (and if you use the same e-mail address or phone number, the site will quickly catch your attempt to do so and then suspend that account as well in a mostly if not completely automated process). When people have continued reporting this… person to Twitter, in the space on the reports that allow you to write something that a human working at Twitter is supposed to be able to see, we’ve been including the names of some of his suspended accounts hoping that Twitter would just go on ahead, follow their own Terms of Service, and suspend him for ban evasion. It’s worked getting ban evaders suspended in the past, although this was by and large prior to Musk’s acquisition. I’m going to get to why that has become problematic in a second.

First of all, it’s no secret that Musk said that he would give many people a “second chance” if they had been suspended on his platform. This hasn’t quite worked out the way he stated it when he Tweeted about this, as it seems that far more right-wingers are being given second (and third, and fourth) chances than their leftist counterparts, which has become obvious. Some people are being suspended for no actual discernible reason and have not successfully been able to appeal these suspensions. Anyway, getting to The Problem™.

A few days ago, one of the prominent accounts that this pedophile had been suspended was reinstated.

They had to have known what they were doing when the decision was made to reinstate this, and they did.

Naturally, people began trying to contact Twitter to ask for justification as to why a convicted pedophile’s account was reinstated when one of the reasons for his suspensions has been the fact that he is a convicted pedophile. (And he’s still a ban evading one as he’s had numerous other accounts of his suspended.) Twitter has predictably refused to answer any inquiries about this, and the convicted pedophile is gloating that this took place to begin with, making sure to rub the reinstatement in the faces of those who wanted him to be suspended yet again. Twitter has made it abundantly if not transparently clear that they no longer care about minor safety on the site, given that one of the reasons for his suspensions has been that he is a convicted pedophile and Twitter allows teenagers between thirteen and seventeen to register accounts.

No one is giving up on deplatforming him, but we realize that Twitter does not care about minor safety.

For the people who are still… paying attention to this drama (what else would you call it, though? other than an attempt to deplatform a predator from a site that minors are legally allowed to use), the convicted pedophile has spent the better portion of two days trying to convince someone to call in another well check to his local police department. This was an abrupt change from his mocking said police department, especially as it related to them doing their job and performing the one well check that we know to have happened. Naturally, everyone who’s been involved in the attempts to deplatform this predator saw his sudden change of mind for exactly what it was — his attempt to trick the Omaha PD into coming back to his home to ambush them or attempt to shoot them out. The word was subsequently spread to everyone that these concerns needed to be communicated to his local police department as it related to any future interactions, that way they could avoid potential injury — or worse — by not doing well checks that they did not have to do, but also so that they can suitably protect themselves if circumstances left them no other choice but to do one. We’ve already confirmed that at least one well check has indeed taken place since the start of all of this, this man was told by name and alias who not to continue harassing, as was he told to stop writing grotesque detailed stories on Twitter about people’s children being abused or molested (or them doing the abusing or molesting to someone else’s children). It was a nice respite not to have to… deal with this man in my Mentions for a week as I was one of the people named, but sadly it only lasted a week before he resumed doing most of the things that got the well check done to begin with. But are any of us surprised?

On top of everything else that’s been going on with this though, this person (I’m trying hard not to name him to artificially inflate his ego knowing that it then becomes searchable, but will name him if necessary) has seen fit to make a “pro-choice” Twitter account, follow nearly everyone who is trying to deplatform him, and… I don’t even know how to describe it. At least well checks are being done for his mental health though.

When it comes to the ban evading, convicted pedophile on Twitter that I’ve mentioned…

· a well check was indeed done on him by his local police department for the things he had been posting online, and he was explicitly told by name or alias who not to harass and to stop posting grotesque stories of people abusing or molesting their children or people’s children being abused or molested… he only complied with this for a week before getting right back to what he had been doing in the first place

· he made fun of his local police department at one point for actually coming out and performing the well check, and then made fun of police in general in a conversation about this (does this surprise anyone?)

· his Twitter account was locked for twelve hours for posting gratuitously violent images with no warning

He is now attempting to goad people into livestreaming or recording them calling his local police department in what seems to be a transparent attempt to get people’s Twitch and YouTube accounts banned under the false pretenses of doxxing. Never mind the fact that his identity, criminal conviction, and location were confirmed by his local police department doing at least one of these checks and there being no reason to doubt that as many people have called them or filed reports have done so… he just wants to start even more shit for the sake of starting shit. As the saying goes, I may have been born at night but it wasn’t last night.

Meanwhile, I continue to be pleased with the fact that his local police department is taking this more seriously than Twitter has and that they’ve done at least one of these checks so far. My concern was that it might have taken them a bit longer to get the ball rolling because so many of these concerns were voiced by people living in other states (and in one or two cases, other countries), so I’m glad that the concern of them taking too long to do anything or not doing it at all was put to rest. However, at one point amidst all of this he very clearly stated that he wanted to “execute (abortion providers)”, and I’m hoping that the seriousness of that statement alone was aptly conveyed to his local police department. I literally do not want to turn the local or national news on one day and find out this guy has made the news for pulling a loaded weapon out.