My account has been locked for providing instructions on how to construct a Molotov cocktail to the proud and brave citizens of Ukraine for their defense against the Russian onslaught they are now facing. I ran the message from English to Ukrainian through Google translate and then posted it. I have posted plenty of the same other instructions in English as well as information to help our Ukrainian friends and allies. But this was the ONLY one in a foreign language that got flagged. I have a strong suspicion Russian troll bots may have mass reported me.
The tweet was posted on Feb 22nd. It is now March 9th. I didn't even remember what the message said until I saw I had a message that my account had been locked and had to go back and translate it to see what it said.
Ever since your new CEO has came in, my account has been suspended or locked twice. The first time was because I said Dr. Oz should be "tarred and feathered" - obviously euphemism and, but I believe your algorithm targeted that tweet because I was immediately suspended.
I understand that Twitter does not promote violence or that type of behavior. But, these are unprecedented times we are currently facing. If Twitter is not willing to take a stand on fighting the forces of Vladimir Putin's gangster regime on a completely sovereign nation then you are taking you and your company is taking a completely cop out approach to helping the people of Ukraine, where just today a Children's Hospital was shelled by the Russians. You seriously should reconsider your platform as a true way to help spread messages to people around the world who desperately are in need of help and assistance.
However, I will delete the tweet, but now because of these two prior account suspensions, which are in my judgement, unwarranted suspension, my over decade long account, is in jeopardy. I do not feel this is fair.
I also, in fact, posted message to people in Russia on how to download TOR, a list of DNS servers, and services offering links to free VPNs in an effort to allow that countries citizens to keep viewing Twitter after the government censors had blocked it.
https://twitter.com/pogue25/status/1499862255403356160
https://twitter.com/pogue25/status/1499864377616257024
https://twitter.com/pogue25/status/1499889539397029890
https://twitter.com/pogue25/status/1499861638018568194
I have been an active Twitter user and supporter since 2008 and just recently these are first times I've EVER had my account disabled.
So please, take my account in it's totality and it's benefits as a whole. And keep in mind, you - probably better than anyone else - knows Russia employees armies of bots, trolls and counter-intelligence agency employees online to harass supporters of Ukraine. You must be willing to be able to tell the difference between legitimate reports from real Twitter accounts and not just Russian trolls & bots.
Thank you.
