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These are all just more detail on the One Rule of Social Media: You get banned when you're more trouble than you're worth.

There's some obviously good refinements here, suspension appeals are a no-brainer. There's been an undocumented appeals process where banned users complain until some twitter employee cares enough to look into it, but many users don't have enough clout to have that accomplished.

No added rules are going to protect users who write in languages which Twitter doesn't employee readers of: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/your-app-isnt-helping-the-...




> No added rules are going to protect users who write in languages which Twitter doesn't employee readers of

How would a user who writes in such a language get banned in the first place?


(photo of a person being shot) "this is what just happened on the street!"

Banned: you're propagating violence, I'm assuming that from the photo

(Photo of a racist poster) "look at what company X uses to get more money"

Banned: spreading racist images


Unfortunate coincidences where a word or phrase in an unsupported language looks like something offensive in a supportrd language.


I doubt that Milo's ban was worth it in the financial sense.




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