I found this notification in my Twitter account last night.
When I checked my tweets that had been flagged with sensitivity warnings, I found that all that had warnings as of midnight 31 December still had warnings attached as did yesterday’s tweet. The claim that warnings had been removed was false.
Clicking on the notice took me to a survey form where I provided the following comment—
You have sent me several notices stating that warnings have been removed from tweets when, in fact, all the tweets with warnings still have warnings attached. My tweets linking to astronomy posts on 24-28, 30, and 31 December and 1 January still have warnings attached. See, eg,, You have sent me several notices stating that warnings have been removed from tweets when, in fact, all the tweets with warnings still have warnings attached. My tweets linking to astronomy posts on 24-28, 30, and 31 December and 1 January still have warnings attached. See, eg,, https://twitter.com/wjjhoge/status/1606607705346564097 and https://twitter.com/wjjhoge/status/1609506712553242624. No honest observer could believe that these tweet contain nudity, sexual content, violence, gore, or hateful symbols. Since your online guidance (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/media-policy) says that you apply these warnings manually after sensitive content is reported, I suspect that Twitter is acting as a catspaw for someone who is subjecting me to targeted abuse. Because I have been unable to find a means to contact Twitter Safety about this harassment via an online form, I demand that Twitter contact me by 5 pm ET, 3 January, via email (himself@wjjhoge.com) about this matter.
As of the drafting of this post at around 8 am, all the tweets cited above still had warnings attached. However, today’s tweet does not have a warning.
Hmmm.
Taylor Lorenz is an example of a person who is afraid to, or unable to, live her own life.
She was brought up in, currently exists in, a system that rewards non-thinking completion of supplied requirements and non-thinking compliace to supplied goals.
The word “supplied” here means the reqirements and goals are coming from someone else, not from herself. She is not living her own life.
She probably doesn’t even realize it. She’s simply performing actions in a way that was taught to her and is expected from her.
Just like my white lab doing his business in the designated area of my backyard. He knows where it is, and he doesn’t care why. (Because it’s easier for his owner to keep clean.)