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Friday, November 29, 2019

I'm suspended from Twitter for a joke I made

On Wednesday night I posted an antisemitic video from a far right Christian network where the host of the show said that Jews were planning a "Jew Coup" and will start a civil war by Christmas, killing millions of Christians: "You have been taken over by a Jewish cabal. The church of Jesus Christ, you’re next. Get it through your head! They’re coming for you. There will be a purge. That’s the next thing that happens when Jews take over a country, they kill millions of Christians."

A non-Jew jokingly asked me on Twitter how he can get in on the Jewish action, so I responded equally jokingly "I was planning to eat Chinese on Christmas, but I guess killing millions of Christians would be a good Plan B."

Last I checked that joke had about 250 "Likes."

When I woke up this morning from a Thanksgiving Netflix movie marathon coma, I saw that Twitter had suspended me for that joke for 12 hours, starting when I acknowledged and deleted that tweet which I did just now.

So I'm in Twitter jail for 12 hours, until after Shabbat begins.

Most of my traffic is generated from Twitter, so their stupid algorithms that look for threats really can hurt people. Or perhaps it wasn't an algorithm but someone reporting the tweet, maliciously or stupidly.

Either way, that's why no tweets from me today. I would appreciate anyone who tweets my posts today!




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