I am told by a person in the know that tweeting "learn to code" at any recently laid off journalist will be treated as "abusive behavior" and is a violation of Twitter's Terms of Service
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UPDATE:
Source was a Twitter spokesperson. Company has issued following clarification.
"It's more nuanced than what you reported. Twitter is responding to a targeted harassment campaign against specific individuals — a policy that's long been against the Twitter Rules"
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Just to be clear. They are backing away from what they originally told me. This "more nuanced" business was not part of my original email exchange with them. They also requested that I share this link on abusive behavior
help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p
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The unemployed coal miners didn’t think it was funny when they were told to “learn to code”. Double standards, I get it.
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Too hard?
Try learning a trade.
Just as hard but nothing shameful about working with your hands.
And genuinely useful.
Electrician.
Plumber.
Millwright.
Minimal debt.
And you can quickly earn 6 figures if you apply yourself.
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If they don't want to get banned, all they have to do is tweet that Jews are termites.
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This is atrocious. Why do journalists deserve special protection against offense that no other workers enjoy? What an arrogant and out-of-touch group of people.
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