Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to a special episode of the new Discourses

podcast because I'm going to dip in and give a little message, a little statement, I suppose.

I didn't plan one, so there's going to be off the cuff and who knows what I'm going to say.

But I got banned off of Twitter, permanent suspension. And so I don't think, by the way,

a lot of people are wondering, maybe I'll get my account back. I don't know that I will get my

account back because the nature of my, what is it, I guess, my appeal. Let me just read it to you.

So when you go to appeal on Twitter, it takes each of the same help page that you get when you

have a technical problem. So it gives you a little box and it says, please, please describe the

nature of your problem or please describe the problem that you're having or whatever it is.

And so this is what I told Twitter as my appeal to get back on. I said, the problem is that you

arbitrarily change the rules and suspended my account after repeatedly forcing me to lie to

admissions of guilt for, quote, violations that aren't real. You should unsuspend my account and

protect and correct your bias and arbitrary policy enforcement. And so that was my attempt to

appeal like, oh, don't, you know, don't, don't harm me Twitter. Don't punish me. I was bad. I'm

sorry. I'll never do it again. No, BS. I didn't do anything wrong. And so fix your stuff,

your platform sucks. I'm looking at it. I'm trending on Twitter as I'm speaking to like the

tune of about 8,000 tweets so far, specifically about me. And I'm looking in. It's like some of them

are, you know, thank you. If it's you that are doing so much support and coming out with these

words of support, I'll tell the story of this banning and what I think about it here in a second.

But then a lot of it's like wonderful. But there's a lot of people. There are two classes of people

who can basically go F themselves. One or there, well, no, three. One is the people who hate me and

they're celebrating my suspension like, okay, it's a Twitter account man. And like now a whole

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