Censored from Twitter

2 yrs

From: Derrick Lau
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 12:19 AM
To: 'Twitter Support' <support@twitter.com>
Subject: RE: Case# 0192847375: Appealing an account suspension - @DerrickLau18 [ ref:_00DA0K0A8._5004w25dNg7:ref ]

I was NOT using multiple Twitter accounts for abusive purposes. I was protesting tech companies (such as Twitter) for hiring practices that favored non US citizens. My original account, @Derrick_Lau, NEVER broke any Twitter rules but it was suspended for no reason, forcing me to open this account.

Do NOT accuse people of being abusive without providing evidence. There are still constitutional and charter rights that your fascist management hasn’t been able to get rid of yet. If you are going to accuse me of leveraging Twitter for abusive purposes, then provide the tweets of evidence.

Lastly, Twitter is the most abusive social media platform out there. There are so many tweets with the hashtag #chinavirus that make bigoted remarks and encourage racial discrimination against people of Chinese and Asian descent, and despite my reporting of those accounts, they never get cancelled.

Clearly you are NOT about free speech and are pushing a political agenda.

2 yrs

Filed yet another Better Business Bureau complaint:
Your complaint case number is 17314069. If you provided an email address, you will receive an email with a link to your case within approximately 48 hours. You may click here to print a copy for your records. BBB acts as an impartial third party between you and the business in an effort to resolve your complaint.

2 yrs

Since Twitter restored Derek Sloan's account (which is more controversial than mine https://www.kingstonist.com/ne....ws/local-ontario-par I decided to try again:

From: Twitter Support <support@twitter.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 1:36 PM
To: derrick.lau@live.ca
Subject: Case# 0192847375: Appealing an account suspension - @DerrickLau18 [ref0DA0000000K0A8.5004w000025dNg7:ref]

Hello,

We’re writing to let you know that your account has been suspended—and will remain suspended—for violating our ban evasion rules.

Circumventing a Twitter suspension, enforcement action, or anti-spam challenge is a violation of the Twitter Rules. This includes:

• operating, or having someone else operate on your behalf, an account which represents your identity, persona, brand or business persona for a different purpose;
• allowing someone who has been permanently suspended from Twitter to permanently take over or temporarily operate your account;
• imitating a suspended account if the apparent intent is to replace a suspended account; and
• any behavior intended to evade any Twitter remediation, such as creating a new account or repurposing an already-existing account.

If an account has been permanently suspended for severe violations of the Twitter Rules, Twitter reserves the right to also permanently suspend any other account we believe the same account holder or entity may be operating in violation of our earlier suspension, regardless of when the other account was created.

Please do not reply to this message as this email address is not monitored.

Thanks,

Twitter

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3 yrs

Logged another complaint with the Better Business Bureau:

Thank you. Your complaint has been submitted.
Your complaint case number is 16108242. If you provided an email address, you will receive an email with a link to your case within approximately 48 hours. You may click here to print a copy for your records. BBB acts as an impartial third party between you and the business in an effort to resolve your complaint.

3 yrs

Here is the latest correspondence between #twitter and the Better Business Bureau:

Dear Derrick Lau:

This message is in regard to your complaint submitted on 7/24/2021 against Twitter, Inc.. Your complaint was assigned ID 15691194.

The Better Business Bureau has received a response from the business in the above-referenced complaint case. Please review their response to your complaint and advise us of your position in the matter within 5 calendar days. If we do not hear back from you, the Bureau will assume you are satisfied and will close your complaint.

Please be sure to indicate whether the business' response is satisfactory or not and how you would like to proceed in this matter.

Please note the text of your response will be publicly posted on the BBB web site (BBB reserves the right to not post in accordance with BBB policy). Please do not include any personally identifiable information in your response. By submitting your response, you are representing that it is a truthful account of your experience with the business. BBB may edit your complaint to protect privacy rights and to remove inappropriate language.

If you are unable to respond using the internet, then please respond in writing to the address above or Fax to (51 844-2100.

Sincerely,

Patricia S.
Dispute Resolution
Phone:

pats@bbbemail.org

MESSAGE FROM BUSINESS:

Hello,

You have responded to a case that has been closed. If you wish to report a new violation, or if you are having account issues, please submit a new report.

You can file a new report through the following page: https://help.twitter.com/forms.

Thanks,

Twitter

Complaint: 15691194

I am rejecting this response because:

I do not recall ever sending a tweet that would violate Twitter's rules. Yet all these attached racist tweets were sent and these users were not banned. I believe Twitter has suspended my account because I was exposing how big tech companies like Twitter continue to offshore jobs to other nations like India, and refuse to hire within their own country. However, since Twitter's terms of service allow them to ban whomever they want without explanation, at this point I am blocked. I will even go so far as to state that Twitter's terms of service contradict core principles of freedom of speech, and I will even go further and state that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter allowed millions of racist tweets against ethnic Chinese to be posted, and none of those users received any reprimand.

I will see about making this complaint public as well as exposing more of Twitter's hypocracy.

Sincerely,

Derrick Lau