To go into a bit more detail about my last post, several long-form safety reports were sent to Twitter regarding the convicted pedophile that Twitter has refused to punish (aside from varying degrees of shadowbans, all of which became less effective when they chose to reinstate one of his suspended accounts). People gave Twitter the same proof of this person’s identity and criminal conviction that had been given to Twitter prior to Musk’s acquisition, which very soon after doing so resulted in the suspension of one of the if not the longest-held account this… person… had, that he was frequently using to abuse people on and say the most heinous, inappropriate things. At some point after Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, it began taking much longer to get Twitter to take any sort of action on the convicted pedophile, and at one point they even went so far as to ignore all reports made about him. When we found out that long-form safety reports still existed and hadn’t been scrapped by Musk after acquisition, all of us filled them out in painstaking detail. We gave them all known prior Twitter account names of his, pointing out which ones were still suspended, linked them to this man’s child sex abuse registry listing as well as the two appeals he’d attempted to make (of the conviction and of the time that he had to serve, both of which spectacularly failed), pointed out various deeply problematic things he had said (even for him… one of them was espousing the desire to execute abortion providers, which Twitter had not acted on up to that point, and another one indicating that he wanted to do physical harm to the parents of a minor that he had gotten pregnant at some point before the pedophilia because they had made their daughter get an abortion), described the points of contact that were made that resulted in his initial suspension over being a convicted pedophile, and talked about the contacts that have been made with his local animal control (warning them that he claimed to have a dog that he stated he’d taught to bite women), the criminal justice divisions that convicted and sentenced him and presumably monitored him after he moved, and the contacts made with his local law enforcement.

They were also informed that his local law enforcement had indeed performed one well check on him.

So imagine everyone’s shock and surprise to wake up one morning and find out that Twitter, having done the rest of the work themselves to confirm the validity of the facts we had given them and had been giving them, had suspended his main account. Naturally, he made another account in direct retaliation to this, so we are now submitting long-form safety reports about those: the ban evading, convicted pedophile who had gleefully come back to their website. I can’t stop won’t stop until kids are as safe as they can be on Twitter.

Several long-form reports were filed against the… person… I’ve been writing about, and Twitter suspended his primary account this morning. He has other accounts that he is now attempting to ban evade on, but long-form reports are being filed about those as well since ban evasion off of a permanent suspension is a violation of Twitter’s TOS, so the people who have been working at this for months — or longer, as this person has been an annoyance on Twitter for quite some time, making new accounts whenever his got suspended — are going to continue to work in the hopes that we can finally completely deplatform him.

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.