Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown

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[wastedyears]

He also said that some disinfo is necessary.

Exactly that. Weren't the Nazis aware of Operation Overlord, but they didn't know exactly where it was gonna happen or when? Maybe including how it would happen? We sure as hell weren't going to broadcast "there are tens of thousands of men heading towards you now, surrender or be shot." Disinformation, deception, subterfuge - those are needed to best your opponent/enemy.

I haven't read it yet, but there's probably a reason that The Art of the Deal pays small homage to Sun Tzu.

[Bshaw]

Hmmm. Is something big on the way?

[EasySt]

I’m not one to harass, and have received no notices or complaints from Twitter that I have done so.

I did get one a couple days ago saying that the harassment report *I*?!! filed...
determined that the person’s account it was against was INDEED harassing...

I NEVER! EVER! Filed such a report. I’ve only ever even blocked 2 accounts, and one of those was Lionsgate spam.
(I never did figure out what the other one was... LOL!)

I looked up the supposedly “Harassing” account, and it looks like some gentile sweet old conservative lady. FOUL!
I have even been tweeting about it for a couple days now.
(Before this ban.)

I’m not one of those that usually tweets in the “Congratulations, You’ve been “Q”ed” events. Those aren’t even the kind of Meme-Unition I collect.

I did have a single Tweet get 130,000 plus impressions over the last day or so. 20,000+ clicks, 1000+ likes, 400+ retweets...

(Click^it^to^go^there.)

#Nevertheless... They got me. (Again.)
(My badge of honor, considering.)

If my experience was not a fluke accident, it sure seems coincidental that bogus harassment complaint was sent just before they banned 150,000 users for harassment complaints. (Manufactured in the back office complaints, perhaps?)

~Easy

[ADemocratNoMore]

Just for the fun of it and because I enjoy tweaking the google A.I. I asked...

“What’s this Q thing ?”

Right at the top of the page were the number of results.

“Page 1 of about 1,590,000,000 results.”

WOW ! Over one BILLION sold !

[bitt]

all this censoring for a larp?? /s

[EasySt]

Oops! gentile=gentle in my post above.

[Fresh Wind]

PARLER.com is a GREAT alternative to FB & Twitter once you get used to it

How many users would Free Republic have if you had to register to even see what it's all about?

[frogjerk]

Q predicted your post

[navymom1]

If Q is a nut conspiracy theory then why bring more attention to it by purging? Why the censorship? We are supposed to be a free speech society. Will Twitter now start banning accounts that speak of JFK conspiracy theories? Or perhaps the more prescient question is now that Twitter has decided to be a publisher, what new laws does it fall under.

In all seriousness, banning speech you don’t like is Frightening. Getting away with it, Marxist.

[navymom1]

If Q is a nut conspiracy theory then why bring more attention to it by purging? Why the censorship? We are supposed to be a free speech society. Will Twitter now start banning accounts that speak of JFK conspiracy theories? Or perhaps the more prescient question is now that Twitter has decided to be a publisher, what new laws does it fall under.

In all seriousness, banning speech you don’t like is Frightening. Getting away with it, Marxist.

[Oscar in Batangas]

No Idea

[stylin19a]

Thank you Jim for allowing us here on your Threads

Amen !

[Enlightened1]

But, but, but Q said the Patriots were in control?

Oh I guess this is really a big psyop right?

Sort of like “trust Sessions”?....

Qanon was formerly known as Anonymous, formerly known as “Occupy Wall Street”.

Anonymous was originally the Q movement years ago that came out after the move “V for Vendetta”. The Anonymous movement and morphed into “Occupy Wall Street” which was a failed communist attempt. After the failure of Occupy Wall Street it morphed back into Anonymous and was largely irrelevant.

Then came President Trump in 2016. Almost a year after President Trump was elected the former communist Anonymous group changed its name to Qanon. This time it is pretending to be pro American anonymous site. The old Anonymous communist movement realized they could not be so upfront about their intentions. So now they created Qanon to hijack, mislead patriots, conservatives, Constitutionalists, etc... about what is happening. That way they keep them in check while the Globalists take back the country from the Nationalists.

Qanon talks about well known conspiracies that have been on the web for 20 plus years. This information is new to a lot of people new and old to politics. They think all the conspiracies are real like the flat Earth and the U.S. never landed on the moon. Some of the conspiracies are true. For instance the Tuskegee experiments. Nevertheless, this dirty laundry of information does not balance the good our country has done over the last 200 plus years. The slow release of this information is intended to rot the Soul of our nation.

The Qanon wishful thinking and wild speculation of what is happening is total crap. Many Qanon followers really believe only they can know what is really happening and not the bad guys (aka the black hats). Furthermore, they believe they are secretly communicating with the President.

Now when something good goes down Qanon tries to claim it by referencing a post at a random time that can be interpreted 1000 different ways. Q often says “trust the plan”. How can you trust a plan you do not know? Q always says to think logically, but almost everything Q speculates about is not logical. Q says to think critically, but if you think critically about Q, then you are attacked by its cult followers.

Anyhow, now you know the deal. Qnon is a fake.

[Enlightened1]

Since the movement is losing steam they needed it to grow.
How do you do that? You ban it also known as the the Streisand effect.

[catnipman]

“He also said that some disinfo is necessary.”

that’s hilarious!

A. Great all-purpose excuse for all the wrong BS “predictions”: oh, that one was “disinfo”!

B. Makes ALL predictions doubtful since one never knows which ones are “disinfo”

Just more evidence that the Q conspiracy is a mental illness ...

[bootless]

Thank you.

>>Q says to think critically, but if you think critically about Q, then you are attacked by its cult followers.<<

Seen it many, many times. And been on the receiving end too. And I have people close to me who have been both intimidated by it, and pulled into it. Just look at the “love-bombing” and the brigading on social media, especially Twitter.

Truth is, there’s plenty of “what about BLM and Atifa” (and there **should be** ... riots near me were coordinated on Twitter, and I did report those posts). But there is real-life harm done to families and friend by Q adherents who take it to a cult level.

I’m not saying that everyone, or even most, do this. Many see it as a channel of patriotism and liberty, exposing corruption and crime, and other legitimate endeavors.

But there is a lot of cultlike behavior... including the aforementioned “Do your research,” and the unspoken but strongly demonstrated, “but you need to agree with me.”

Disagree with “the plan” or Qanon/Q on social media? You’re evil because you’re wrong. You get brigaded. It’s a one-way street.

As an important aside, as a Christian, I’m deeply disturbed by the idolatry displayed by Qanon Christians. And because of its wide net, the New Age/galactic vibration/5D existence wing of Qanon is prevalent. I suppose that’s a function of its wide reach.

I am not generally in favor of social media crackdowns. In this case (which is also very common on FB and YouTube), the AI and Autoplay functions that keep the Q content coming, and that keep recommending new groups can be a sinkhole for the vulnerable.

Thanks for listening.