I've been a bad, bad fox.

Yours truly, the friendliest fox you've ever known, has officially been sent to Twitmo. 

I always thought I'd either avoid Twitter jail completely, or totally lose my cool one day and go down in a blaze of glory. 

But no...

Where did I go wrong? I mean, yeah, I've fallen in with an unsavory crowd of free speechin', gun totin', far alt right neo reactionary red hat conserva trads on Twitter, but that happened a long time ago.

What happened lately to push me over the edge? When did I become a threat?

It was when I told some rando commie to "Get slapped." That's apparently worth 12 hours in the slammer.

And since, y'know, context don't count for shit on Twitter, I figured I'd provide it here, where no one will see it. Now, I'm not a follower of @MattWalshBlog, but he pops up in my feed from time to time. And I couldn't help but click on this disturbing video of a grown adult chasing down and slapping a child.


Somehow, my eye landed on a reply by @sankarstanford, "lol cry." Now, I'm no linguist, but I play one on Twitter, and to my seasoned faculties, it looks like Sankar is cool with adults slapping children.

I don't take kindly to folks who sanction terrorizing and assaulting children. So I told him to place himself on the receiving end of the action with which he apparently sees no problem. And that's it. I didn't think about it. I didn't get any notifications about it. I certainly didn't call up my Twitter posse to put him on the receiving end of a report-campaign, as I'm sure his little mob of comrades did to have me algo-grounded. 

I don't know who this Sankar dweeb is. I don't go peering through holes in restroom dividers, so I've never seen him. But it would truly, truly be a shame if any internet autists decided to get to know him better. 

Anyway, the child-abuse enabler gets to traipse around Twitter today while I'm in time-out for "glorifying violence." 

Twitter dot fuggin' com. 

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UPDATE: I have received an update from Twitter explaining that they will uphold their decision due to a determination that violations of the Twitter Rules did take place, specifically regarding rules around: ...
Well, I guess we'll never know, since Twitter doesn't really seem to know. Or care. Or whatever. 

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