Last week, we wrote about Twitter’s lockdown of our account for use of the scientific term “natal male.”
We filed a complaint with the Northern California Better Business Bureau. That complaint was today rejected, with Twitter [in its boilerplate response] doubling down on its defamatory claim that we engaged in “hateful conduct,” specifically: threatening, directly attacking, and promoting violence.
If we continue in this “abusive behavior,” so sayeth our Twitter Overlord-bot, we are risking our account.
Once again, below is the tweet Twitter claims to be “abusive behavior,” worthy of the potential forfeiture of over 13,000 followers (including many prominent journalists, politicians, and others who wield political and public opinion influence) and five years of substantive information shared with the public.
Were we surprised by Twitter’s automated response? Of course not; it’s par for the course in the current zeitgeist, where totalitarian-minded scolds running the most influential social media platform in the world believe it is their solemn duty to serve as Reeducation Nannies for the teeming masses.
In the two weeks since our lockout, other thought criminals have also been Twitter-jailed or perma-banned for their “abusive behavior” (otherwise known as telling truths certain trans-activist tattletales don’t want you to know). Fellow inmates include reasonable trans people like MarsBruh, a trans man who goes out of his way in his interview series to feature diverse viewpoints, and detransitioned lesbian activist and Youtuber gnc_centric, who as of this writing has also filed a BBB complaint--to no avail–to reverse her permanent suspension from Twitter.
There have been many more before us, and there will undoubtedly be more to come who’ll be ejected from the 21st century public square and condemned to Big Tech thought-crime prisons.
Nevertheless, despite our cynicism, we believe it’s important to keep telling our truth, and that now includes rejecting Twitter’s libelous edict:
Since our previous post on the matter, our Twitter lockout has been written up in a very good article by Libby Emmons in the Canadian Post Millennial, and the journalist Jesse Singal confirmed via Twitter that “simply describing what being trans is could lead to you losing your account.”
And as everyone not living in a cave now knows, just a few days ago beloved author of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling, has come under international fire (including ridiculous propaganda pieces in major US outlets such as NBC, CNN, and the onetime paper-of-record) for tweeting her views about biological sex in regard to the recent UK court case against Maya Forstater.
The 4th_WaveNow Twitter account is fairly well known, but is puny by Twitter standards. Banning JK Rowling (and others with 1M or more followers) from the public square for her past or future thought crimes might be a bridge too far–but for how long?
Maybe Rowling and other celebrities with adequate financial wherewithal and intestinal fortitude should put their heads together and try pushing that biological (aka “natal”) sex envelope a wee bit further on Twitter.
Just a thought. You know, just to see what might happen…
Rowling is a saint for standing up to the male bodied trans onslaught. Sad to see Ricky Gervais back-pedalling now the trans Amarda is threatening his awards gig. Trans have so much power for those calling themselves the most marginalised people on the planet. They’re not and never will be. Theyre a male rights group intent on erasing women and destroying feminism.
If Ricky Gervais is backpedaling then I can confidently boycott his work along with everyone else who supports this.
I don’t get what the big deal is and I guess that’s the point. Why is “natal male’ offensive but ‘cis male’ is not? And why cant you just open a new Twitter account?
A particular Twitter name is a meeting point. You can’t just abandon it without abandoning all your members/ followers.
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This is why I am on Gab, Mewe, Minds, Bitchute and Parler. They are an alternative to places like Twitter because they Value Freedom of Speech.
Is this blog still active?
Intermittently
I support much of what 4thwave now stands for, but you dropped the ball a bit on this tweet. To cover your a@@ the most comprehensively online, the cardinal rule is “thou shalt not call OTHER people names they might not agree with.” The problem isn’t with the term “natal male,” it would have probably glided by unnoticed if someone had referred to him/herself as a “natal male.” The problem is that the tweet called someone ELSE a “natal male.” The tweet could have conveyed the same message, had it simply read thusly: “…a population Katy neither advocates for[…] nor understands, as the lived experience of natal females (AFAB) has unique elements unshared by those who don’t fall into this category.”
Yeah that’s wordier, but you would very likely have avoided the Twitter Ban. (Unless you wanted the ban, as stirring controversy seems to the objective of some.) And IMO it’s totally OK to use AFAB/AMAB and be gender critical, because intersex people exist, and such assingment does happen to them, all the time. And if it happens to some people, then yes It’s A Thing. Nuanced positions exist.
Twitter is fascistic. You might want to read
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/04/twitter-uk-cia-reuters-censorship/
I call these companies antisocial media. I know they provide a meeting place, but it seems more and more like a meeting place where no free speech is permitted. And considering the damage they are doing to children and young people, having your Twitter account banned ala Graham Linehan is praiseworthy.
Is it because I’m not in an area where this is prevalent or am too old (haha) that I think the transgender brouhaha is winding down?