The man is back.
Not many people are able to endure a “permanent blacklisting” from Twitter and live to Tweet about it, but that’s exactly what just happened to journalist Alex Berenson.
Think about that, the platform once banned the SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and to this day have REFUSED to reinstate them.
A couple of people who stripped features away from Facebook and drew a raggedly blue bird think that they’re bigger than the President of the United States of America.
It was no easy task for Alex Berenson to end up back on Twitter. In fact, it took a lawsuit to do it.
Alex Berenson was originally permanently blacklisted because Twitter accused him of promoting fake news in regards to COVID.
Turns out, Alex did no such thing.
A lawsuit followed. As a result, the man is BACK.
2/ But the second was that Twitter had begun the process of modifying its terms of service when it set up its five-strike Covid misinformation policy. In other words, if Twitter's position is that it can ban anyone for any reason, fine, Section 230 allows that…
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 7, 2022
4/ "Plaintiff plausibly avers that Twitter's conduct here modified its contract with plaintiff and then breached that contract by failing to abide by its own five-strike policy and its specific commitments set forth through its vice president." (From the ruling.)…
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 7, 2022
6/ So if you've been banned for Covid misinformation – or ANY specific and named violation of Twitter's policies – and you have a plausible case that you did not in fact violate those polices – hello breach of contract case.
Thanks O'Berenson!
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 7, 2022
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