If I hadn’t been online before 2006, I might consider it. If I hadn’t seen what Twitter has become, and how any disturbed monster anywhere in the world can spew any degrading, insulting, threatening, false, and completely crazy nonsense, I might think twice. If I hadn’t been the target of countless defamatory tweets from various impersonators and anonymous accounts, which Twitter systematically finds perfectly aligned with its “rules,” I would have removed those tweets, which would equate to a public retraction. As things stand, I’ve decided that I do not agree with Twitter’s interpretation of what constitutes a violation of its absurd “rules,” so I will not delete the tweets that contain information about phone numbers/email of Vanessa Neumann (Juan Guaidó “diplomatic representative in the UK”) or about the meetings between Gustavo Guaidó and Alejandro Betancourt in Madrid.
Vanessa Neumann defamed Alek Boyd on Twitter. During the summer, out of nowhere, Neumann tweeted that I was “under investigation for extortion.” This came after she requested an urgent meeting to discuss the whereabouts and activities of the mega-bully Alejandro Betancourt, Jorge, and Delcy Rodríguez.
I challenged Neumann, who has quite an imaginative streak when describing her career before becoming part of Guaidó’s diplomatic corps, to either back it up or shut up.
No evidence of such “extortion investigation” ever materialized. What did come were threats through Twitter’s own DM platform (which I still have) and a subsequent deletion of the defamatory tweet in question (see the image to the left).
This was all to be expected given the cast, of course. What I am not willing to accept, however, is the deletion of perfectly valid information that has been placed into the public domain by the very people who are now complaining about it on Twitter.
I have a record of deleted tweets accusing me of nonexistent legal processes, as well as a collection of highly defamatory tweets that Twitter has consistently refused to remove over the years. Posting total fabrications about non-existent things is perfectly fine with Twitter.
Therefore, I call absolute BS on Twitter’s foolish interpretations of its rules, and I refuse to delete the tweets in question. If Twitter decides to continue blocking my account or suspend it entirely, I’ll live with it: Twitter, Neumann, and all the friends of Venezuela’s rampant corruption can go to hell. This site will continue, regardless.
UPDATE: Well, Jack and his censorship monkeys didn’t like this post. So long Twitter!