By now, you guys are quite familiar with our policy when it comes to Twitter randos. We try not to spend a lot of time posting about them.
But sometimes, we need to post about them. Maybe because we’re idiots for a particularly hot shot.
Or maybe because, as is the case here, those rando help expose a serious problem. Like, for example, Twitter shrugging its back on demands to assassinate Supreme Court justices.
Earlier this weekwe told you about former California congressman Steve Cox and his suggestion that the pro-abortion mafia “empty [Brett Kavanaugh’s] house and burn his shit in front of the hotel “Kavanaugh and his family stay. That wasn’t Cox’s only troubled tweet on the SCOTUS topic:
– Steve Cox (@RealSteveCox) May 7, 2022
Fortunately for Cox, Twitter apparently didn’t find the tweet as problematic as some of us:
Nothing to see here. Only Twitter found no issues with a cartoon suggesting the assassination of Supreme Court justices. pic.twitter.com/MC5NHTL5Pk
– Patterico (@Paterico) May 7, 2022
I would like to see some people on the left come forward and say this is unacceptable.
– Patterico (@Paterico) May 7, 2022
We’d love to see Twitter come forward and say it’s unacceptable.
But why would they find Cox’s tweet unacceptable when they’re evidently comfortable with rando with 16 followers tweeting the same kind of thing:
Not only is the cartoon not unacceptable, some members of the Supreme Court should be targeted for murder.
– Comrade Khârn (@ Comrade Kharn) May 7, 2022
We took a screenshot:
Not that a screenshot is needed, of course. It’s been running for several days now and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
– Jake Wilson (@ JakeWilson2714) May 8, 2022
We can certainly appreciate the gesture of trying to bring this to the attention of Twitter and law enforcement, but Twitter, at least, isn’t all that worried:
This tweet supporting the assassination of the Supreme Court justices is still active and Twitter won’t even send me an email acknowledging that I reported it last night. Maybe other people need to report it too. https://t.co/S6aLUcgHdy
– Patterico (@Paterico) May 8, 2022
Other people have reports it. And Twitter has sent them a message to acknowledge it.
The message is that Twitter doesn’t care:
Openly calling for the assassination of Supreme Court judges does not violate @twitterTerms of Service. pic.twitter.com/9NTno2pFh9
– Mark Ashworth and the Wreckoning Bros podcast (@marklarflash) May 11, 2022
Didn’t @KharnComrade violate Twitter’s security policies? Not even one?
Okay, but did you encourage anyone to take ivermectin?
– Excelsior Strategies (@Excelsior_PR) May 11, 2022
Good point. That she would decidedly violated Twitter’s security policies.
But if you compare someone to a prostitute using the vulgar term for a prostitute, your account is permanently suspended. https://t.co/kEazLu5poO
– Bob Weave (@lowkeyrbe) May 11, 2022
Twitter has priorities and they stick to them! Hopefully not for too long though, because those policies really suck.
confidently, @Elon Musk you want to revisit @TwitterSecurity rules. https://t.co/bVt5DiMJr7
– Carl Gottlieb (@c_cgottlieb) May 11, 2022
Elon Musk can’t clean up Twitter’s bird cage soon enough. https://t.co/GhDHBE30wk
– Ken Gardner (@ KenGardner11) May 11, 2022
True story.
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