There are many censorships on Twitter, always in the name of the Camp du Bien. More recently it is Nicolas Vidal and Putsch who have been victims. We have investigated the person concerned.
Ojim: Nicolas Vidal our readers know you a little after a first presentation on our site in 2018 then an analysis of your book Media, the great error in 2021. What happened in Spring 2022 Twitter?
The situation is as much ubiquitous as it is arbitrary. I received several cryptic emails early Friday evening March 25 informing me that all of my Twitter accounts were “permanently suspended” for violating the Twitter Community Rules. Thus the two Twitter accounts of Putsch Media with over 10,000 followers were simply silenced by Twitter. I had never before received warning emails or formal notice. But suddenly, I was excommunicated while our Twitter accounts only relayed content published on www.putsch.media like all the media do.
The world of arbitrariness
Thus, a media with a CPPAP number issued by the Ministry of Culture can be “fired” from Twitter in the snap of a finger. We have entered the world of arbitrariness regulated by private American platforms that decide on your presence on social networks. In the meantime, my personal account (@nicolasputsch) was restored the following Monday. At this time, Putsch’s two Twitter accounts are still suspended. This Friday I took my finest digital pen and wrote to Damien Viel, Twitter’s DG France. I’m waiting for his answer.
Community Rules
The most dramatic thing is that Twitter, like most platforms, never justifies the reason for your exclusion, except for “breaking the rules of the community”. But what community are we talking about? An intellectual community? Cultural? Of Good Conscience? Authorized Doxa? We are actually talking about the backwater of the Empire of well-thinking which continues to extend its zone of influence in the most total and brutal arbitrariness, with the complicity of the press. mainstream. Your only recourse is a form on some obscure web page where you can plead in a few words for Twitter to get you well.
It is absolutely frightening but it is the world in which we are sinking into a general apathy and a disturbing form of voluntary servitude. And it is rather effective when you arrive at the end of a premeditated process of brutalizing the populations engaged for 30 years now. More consumers and fewer citizens! This is the project of the start-up nation. This is what it takes for a great market to work and for a democracy to disappear. We traded literature for TikTok, the French language for Instagram, our democracy for Reality TV and our citizenship for a QR Code. In reality, the ikeaization of our company has worked perfectly. And France is no more than a bare aisle of the supermarket that is this globalized world.
See as well : Jack Dorsey, the ball of fake asses
Ojim: What was your activity on Twitter in quantitative and qualitative terms? What are the consequences of deletion?
Our total Twitter community which represents approximately 26,000 followers is extremely loyal to our content. She follows us with great attention. Proof of this is that when I made it known that our accounts had been deleted, many people mobilized on Twitter. It is estimated that all of the Twitter accounts that disseminated the information and supported Putsch did not weigh far from the million followers. Thus my personal account was restored the following Monday, unlike the two accounts of Putsch.
As it stands, I only received suspension notification emails. I realized that my account had been restored by chance. The consequences are disabling because Twitter has unfortunately become a platform where many readers get information as well as sisters and brothers.
political censorship
Personally, I work a lot on Twitter where I do my press reviews, I find subjects there and where I offer interviews. Nevertheless, following these deletions of accounts, dozens of readers subscribed to Putsch and made donations. Some, too few, realize that censorship is intensifying as the presidential election approaches, surprisingly or not. Criticizing government policy or publishing news that confronts power with these responsibilities seems like a casus belli to some. But nothing is official, nothing assumed. You receive a brutal email and your digital existence disappears in the snap of a finger. In reality, the McKinsey Gate is not trending for behind the scenes at Twitter. It became one of many red lines.
Ojim Do you have the ability to appeal? If your account like Donald Trump’s is deleted, how do you replace Twitter?
We appealed as I said via a form. And we received an automatic email of good reception. In reality, you can’t do anything. You are helpless. Then you must otherwise, through other channels, urge your community and readers to subscribe to newsletters and join you on Telegram and Gettr. We are in a crazy world, where you have to anticipate and prepare for censorship. Imagine that: having to tell yourself that you have to prepare for the censorship to come in a country like France.
You also have to accept being a target and expose yourself only by publishing articles. And as the State has skilfully privatized freedom of expression, it exonerates itself in a way from these inadmissible attacks on freedom of expression but also on the freedom to inform. Because that is what it is about. And what do you call a country where the freedom to express oneself and to inform is reduced day by day? You have three hours to respond!
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