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* MisterJayEm is still suspended from Twitter and he still doesn’t know why or for how long.

* Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) has more than one Twitter account, but @Lashawnkford is now this…

Click here instead. Ford says he’s reported it as a hack.

* And this happened…

https://t.co/ZjjmWhDg8Q pic.twitter.com/tcnJ6csU4v

— ILGA singalong (@ilgasingalong) August 6, 2021

Thanks for the follow @repjcarroll feel free to use without attribution pic.twitter.com/A10N0m7idK

— ILGA singalong (@ilgasingalong) August 7, 2021

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 12:55 pm

Comments

– still doesn’t know why –

While the specifics vary, there has been a strong push coming out of some groups which has really ramped up about 8 months ago to kick people off social media.

Something similar happened to me on another social media site, where I found out someone was using my legal identity to impersonate me and then attaching those actions to my real account - leading to bans on my main account. I only found out about it because one of the people at the decision level reached out to me before it happened and told me what was going on and who was carrying it out.

Thankfully, Illinois has amazingly strong protections against using electronic means to fraudulently impersonate someone. From there it’s pretty easy to get a court order to hand over the offenders details from the provider. Civil cases against the offenders can then turn quickly into criminal prosecution.

On the plus side, the people involved in this activity seem entirely unaware how not-anonymous they really are online.

Comment by TheInvisibleMan Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 1:05 pm
The world is increasingly looking like a perpetual day at Chuck E. Cheese.

Comment by Tommydanger Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 1:12 pm
Welp. As @MisterJayEm (#FreeMisterJayEm) sits in purgatory for unknown digressions…

I guess a sing-a-long tweeter thingy won’t get old, amirite?

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 1:16 pm
Whoever made that Carroll video should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Wow, I wish I could unsee that.

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 1:16 pm
MisterJayem can do no wrong.

Comment by Dotnonymous Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 1:21 pm
2021, the gift that keeps on giving.

Comment by Boone's is Back Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 1:51 pm
I saw this over the weekend. This dystopian future we live in is a bit too much sometimes. I think I prefer the super mutant one

Comment by Commissar Gritty Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 3:23 pm
Wait, let me get this straight…@MisterJayEm is banned from twitter but Bailey, Miller and the rest of the Hee Haw @#%$ around gang is not?

I am boycotting twitter.

Comment by JS Mill Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 4:02 pm
I think @MisterJayEm was hacked. Why didn’t Twitter catch this?

Comment by Wensicia Monday, Aug 9, 21 @ 6:23 pm

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