Twitter locked my account for criticizing NBC News

After reading how NBCnews edited the 911 call <www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-nightly-news-makhia-bryant-shooting-911-call-edit-out> that demanded police assistance, which led to the shooting of a knife wielding teen in Columbus, Ohio, I tweeted what you read below suggesting NBCnews should fire themselves. They locked my account. In Jack Dorsey’s twitterland, where inconvenient facts about a preferred presidential candidate are censored, so is criticism of news sources that purposely edit facts for a preferred viewer impression.

At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, this kind of twitter behavior is a warning sign of, no, a hallmark, of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. It’s bad enough not having a free press that reports news without advocacy, but to squelch criticism of it, reveals the mindset of our silicon valley overlords.
Let me just add, in this particular case, if I was harassing @NBCnews, @NBCnews harassed the entire country by misrepresenting the facts of an important news event in what even CNN called “journalistic malpractice.”

 
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But I wonder who could have been so thin-skinned and petty? I can only imagine, but I guess I’d better block them to prevent this inconvenience from happening again.

Perfect Nick Lowe

Well, perfect except the tuning on first one. You, an instrument and your song. That seems a foolproof way to know if you have something.

American Blues Redux

Did this one at least six years ago. Sorry to see it has some relevance still.

Things to know before you seek flag help on Craiglist

I had an ad flagged by CL not long ago, so I tried to find out why, which led me to the Craigslist Flag Help forum. I still don’t really know why my ad was flagged, and on reading the forum, you’ll see that’s not unusual. The forum is staffed by volunteers because Craigslist is”community moderated.” If you are planning to post there, please take the time to research first. Read through many requests for help and all the replies. Bear in mind the phrase “community moderated” and adjust your expectations accordingly.

If a post is flagged on Craigslist, it cannot be seen, but when you copy the flagged post in the help forum to find out why it was flagged (mandatory,) your post to the forum cannot be removed.

Be sure to read the Top Reasons Posts are Removed page, but know that in addition to software moderation, according to one reply, an ad can be flagged because someone didn’t care for it emotionally.

“For many readers, flagging is a visceral reaction to how an ad makes them feel.”

The “Help” in the forum, likewise, can generate “help” like:

Simply reading to forum until you find someone with an analogous will problem will probably deliver your best answer, while sparing you having to actually post there.

Ultimately, if the reason isn’t one of the common problems, it’s likely how your ad made some people feel, and that is unpredictable. For example, apparently no one has flagged this, probably because cancelling the holiday pandemic orgy is horrifyingly funny, in a laugh-of-the-damned kid of way.