Twitter discriminates against autistic people.
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Twitter discriminates against autistic people.
This is my personal story.
I am officially autistic, just like Twitter's new owner Elon Musk. As a scientist at one of the most renowned universities in the world, I have been speaking out against the measures by comprehensively explaining scientific findings since the beginning of 2021.
However, Twitter has cancelled me big time and discriminated against me. Please, don't get me wrong - I certainly don't want to put myself in the victim role, which I despise so much in people from Wokistan. I am neither a perpetrator nor a victim but simply discriminated against by the cancel culture system because of what I am: analytical, rational, direct, and with a social filter that is as effective as the face diaper against Covid. This is my personal story.
My account on Twitter was @goddeketal. I never was much into social media, but I eventually went from 0 to 50k followers within six months. In January 2021, I wrote a big thread explaining the scientific peer-review process and showed why Drosten's PCR paper most likely bypassed the peer-review process. As it got deleted with my account, I turned it into a substack article this summer.
I raised many unanswered questions:
How did Drosten's paper make it through the peer review process within 24h?
How does he even publish there while being part of the journal's editorial board?
Why does the journal refuse to publish the anonymous peer-review reports?
Questions upon questions and still no answers. My account grew. I began to post more studies, for example, about the efficacy of masks, the implementation of arbitrary measures and their effects on public health, the potential of vitamin D, etc. My posts must have consistently been a thorn in the side of the woke fact-checkers from Twitter's Ministry of Truth, and I've regularly been temporarily banned from Twitter for statements that are mainstream these days. Here are a few examples:
EXAMPLE 1. I referred to this publication, which has been peer-reviewed. Twitter banned me for doing so for one week for "Violating the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.".
EXAMPLE 2. I cited (!!!) a scientist from an official Texas Senate hearing and posted the corresponding video.
EXAMPLE 3. Here, I referred to meta-analyses that are available on vdmeta.com and c19ivm.org. Fun fact: the scientists that are running these websites have been banned from @twitter, too.
EXAMPLE 4. In June 2021, I was banned for asking questions. The @gatesfoundation really invested that much into BioNTech. Why is it prohibited to ask questions?
One day later, my account got permabanned. My impact was probably too big (400 new followers per day and 3K likes on average) that Twitter pulled the ripcord. My account was banned for "targeted harassment" without Twitter providing me with a specific explanation. Even after requesting further information about permanently locking my account, Twitter refused to give me the actual or specific reason for the suspension. Since I had moved to Brazil in the meantime, I took Twitter to court here.
The Brazilian armada (!!!) of Twitter lawyers explained during the trial that I was not banned for "targeted harassment" but for spreading dangerous medical falsehoods (i.e. Twitter initially lied). Nevertheless, I was also presented with the tweet, which led to my final suspension. According to Twitter, the following statement led to the permaban.
The awkward part about this is that this statement, just like those of my tweets in the examples above, is entirely accurate. I eventually lost the lawsuit. Not because my tweets were unobjective or improper but because the judge decided that Twitter has digital domiciliary rights and can determine who is active on the platform and who is not. I wonder if Elon Musk feels the same way.
Since then, I've written several appeals to Twitter Support (Appeal 1, Appeal 2, Appeal 3), and each time, received a response that my account would no longer be unlocked because I violated their policies.
The critical issue about this is that all my statements have become mainstream. Yet, instead of apologizing to the thousands of other banned scientists and me, Twitter insists on their decision. Although Musk has taken over the platform, there is little sign of freedom of speech. I have therefore decided to sue Twitter once again. I want to know who are the faces behind these cultural-stalinist decisions.
I will keep you posted about that lawsuit on my Telegram Channel. Of course, I could refrain from using Twitter, but I am convinced Big Tech needs to be called to order. A global digital Ministry of Truth is not an option for me.
Cheers,
Dr. Simon :)
Twitter discriminates against autistic people.
I hope this lawsuit opens some doors and shines some light. Best of luck to you.
You go boy! We have to fight at every opportunity otherwise what happened to us will be normalized. I cheer for you.
In my workplace here in South Africa we have been bullied and traumatized for a year, tens of thousands of employees have been vaccinated under duress (losing job in a country with 40% unemployment, excluding discouraged jobseekers is equivalent to gun to the head), 600 have been dragged through "incapacity" hearings, and finally some of them eventually got fired. Our union is taking the big corporate to high court now. It's a real David vs Goliath story, but we keep on fighting. Even if all we achieve is to make it as difficult for them as we can, they won't try it again in a hurry.