Far Right Watch on Twitter - Suspended, But Appealling
You may have noticed that our Twitter Account has been suspended.
We were zapped after being mass-reported for our reaction to posts by famous Music Producer Mike Stock - yes, he of 'Stock Aitken and Waterman', about whom we posted and wrote last week.
In effect, we called Stock what he is. And in exposing his miriad hatreds, we were suspended for it. Well, hey, at least we got a night off. :-)
Stock reported us, as did various other Far Right accounts in which we suspect may have been an orchestrated campaign, in which key players were the many 'sock' accounts run by the infamous 'Mycroft', who has been banned (we think) 7 times from Twitter but still has four remaining accounts.
Here's the notification we received from Twitter:
As far as we can see, we called it as we saw it. Perhaps the 'C*nt' part was overkill (!) but we thought even that was valid, and not 'Hateful Conduct' as described by Twitter. Of course, one key point here is that Mike Stock has a 'blue tick'. He's a 'celeb', albeit from three decades ago.
We have appealed through the official channels but have yet to hear anything, being the weekend.
Meantime we'd like to thank everyone for your many messages of love and support for the work we do.
It appears that #AntiFascist twitter accounts are being targeted for mass reporting. The latest has been @Far_Right_Watch who provided an excellent service documenting the rise in race / sectarian demagogues & orgs@TwitterSupport this acc should be reinstated— ☭ The Plough & Stars ☭ (@PloughAndStars2) June 30, 2018
I am genuinely stunned at the fact that the @Far_Right_Watch account has been suspended. This is ridiculous.@Twitter is awash with fake accounts, stirring up racial hatred with impunity, Trump's getting journos killed & yet you suspend this account? Fucking joke. #FBPE— Stan Bartolome #FBPE (@StanBartolome) June 30, 2018
Is getting suspended by Twitter the new hated by the daily mail?— I'm only here for the catz 😸 (@missnfranchised) June 30, 2018
Shocked to see Far Right Watch suspended. They were doing exceptional work.— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) June 30, 2018
Far Right Watch shall be continuing our work using my personal Twitter account at @jdpoc - which will be a shock to those used to my more usual personal tweets about food and cycling :-)Disgraceful that Twitter suspends @Far_Right_Watch for calling out alt-right hate, but leaves the alt-right haters to carry on...... https://t.co/9kWHn57zgj— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) June 30, 2018
Many came before us and we stand on their shoulders. We shall continue our work unabated, and fight to be heard wherever we are.
