This is absolutely nuts, @TwitterSupport. My account was locked for quoting and fact-checking Trump, and I was forced to delete this tweet. Why am I getting punished for shining a light on the president's falsehoods? pic.twitter.com/UtbsGBe3cd— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 6, 2020
I follow Rupar's Twitter feed, but honestly: cry me a river.
The biggest loophole possible is every Russian bot with multiple Twitter accounts just "quoting" the Trump campaign's lies; at least the ones Twitter deems to toxic to spread.
It's a private company. You use it subject to the terms of the agreement you didn't read when you pressed the "button" (even "press" and "button" are metaphors here) to set up your account.
Get over it. Especially if they haven't suspended your account for this tweet, and I assume they haven't because the Trump campaign tweet everybody retweeted talking about how Trump's campaign Twitter account had been suspended, was itself deleted to lift the suspension. And everybody's tweet had a blank spot saying that tweet was "no longer available."
Congratulations. You found the loophole. You think Trump's campaign can't find it, too?
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