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Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2095453567955968398

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548452

#HackerNews #Google #Antigravity #TOS #3rdPartyUsage #AccountSuspension #TechNews #SocialMedia

Tejano Nation: Bobby Pulido Says TikTok Banned His Music Account, Questions Politics. “Two-time Latin Grammy winner and South Texas Tejano icon Bobby Pulido says TikTok has banned his longtime music account, claiming the platform identified the profile as an impersonation account. Pulido, who is now campaigning for the U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 15th Congressional District, […]

Vancouver is Awesome: Vancouver strip club’s Instagram taken down after sign calls out Trump’s lake fiasco. “Vancouver’s Penthouse Night Club has done it again. It appears the strip club had its Instagram account taken down not because of nudity, but because of a statement on their sign. The club’s marquee on Seymour Street was updated by Ben Jackson with one of his witticisms, calling out U.S. […]

Reuters: US FTC probes YouTube over social media policies, Bloomberg News reports. “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been investigating whether YouTube violated consumer protection laws by suspending users’ accounts ​and is in the final stages of preparing a ‌potential lawsuit, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.”

Indy: After Local Drag Queen and Business Owner Banned From Instagram, More Questions Than Answers. “Community members, including Drag Queen Stormie Daie and Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, have called on Instagram users to tag Meta in posts asking the company to reinstate [Naomi] Dix’s accounts. While Meta did not supply Dix with a reason for the ban, the posts it flagged—one of […]

Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage

#HackerNews #GCP #Incident #Report #AccountSuspension #CloudOutage #TechNews #May2026

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: Meta Deleted Me. I Still Don’t Know Why. And neither will you.. “Was my account hacked by a nefarious actor who posted some offensive and obscene material? I can’t rule it in or out, as I don’t have access to my account to perform a forensic analysis of any logins from suspicious devices or the like. That, and I ‘cannot request another review of this […]

IHC to hear plea seeking Imran’s X account suspension

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1389744/ihc-to-hear-plea-seeking-imrans-x-account-suspension/

OpenAI Bans China Government, Russian Cybercrime Accounts for Espionage, Malware

#AccountSuspension #chinesegovernment #OpenAI #Russiancriminalgroups
https://blazetrends.com/openai-bans-china-government-russian-cybercrime-accounts-for-espionage-malware/?fsp_sid=141123

YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit for $24.5M Over Capitol Riot Account Suspension

#AccountSuspension #Capitolriot #trump #Youtube
https://blazetrends.com/youtube-settles-trump-lawsuit-for-24-5m-over-capitol-riot-account-suspension/?fsp_sid=134997

BBC: Mark Zuckerberg – no, not that one – sues Facebook for account shutdowns . “A US lawyer with the same name as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is suing the social media platform, arguing it keeps suspending his account while falsely accusing him of ‘impersonating a celebrity’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/05/bbc-mark-zuckerberg-no-not-that-one-sues-facebook-for-account-shutdowns/

Government working toward helping banned Meta users raise complaints

Anfas Azad spent six years and more than $80,000 in digital ads building an Instagram page for his…
#NewsBeep #News #Business #account #accountsuspension #AU #Australia #digitalindustrygroup #Instagram #instagramban #instagramsocialmediaban #iPhone #jewellery #META #Microsoft #Socialmedia #socialmediaban
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/76537/

Radio New Zealand: ‘Quite stressful’: Kiwis stung by wrongful Facebook and Instagram bans. “Some Facebook and Instagram users in New Zealand have reported their accounts being banned arbitrarily, and a tech expert says the uptick in wrongful suspensions is ‘worrying’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/09/quite-stressful-kiwis-stung-by-wrongful-facebook-and-instagram-bans-radio-new-zealand/

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BBC: Instagram wrongly accuses some users of breaching child sex abuse rules. “Instagram users have told the BBC of the “extreme stress” of having their accounts banned after being wrongly accused by the platform of breaching its rules on child sexual exploitation. The BBC has been in touch with three people who were told by parent company Meta that their accounts were being permanently […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/13/bbc-instagram-wrongly-accuses-some-users-of-breaching-child-sex-abuse-rules/

Northeastern University: Longer suspensions on platforms like Roblox could help curb bad behavior, new research finds. “Social platforms are constantly trying to strike a balance when it comes to managing bad behavior. How do you crack down on harassment and cyberbullying without slipping into censorship that drives people off your platform? A new study finds one potential solution: longer […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/northeastern-university-longer-suspensions-on-platforms-like-roblox-could-help-curb-bad-behavior-new-research-finds/

ICYMI: Google clarifies ad account suspension policies with no enforcement changes: Google provides enhanced transparency for advertisers regarding account suspensions. https://ppc.land/google-clarifies-ad-account-suspension-policies-with-no-enforcement-changes/ #GoogleAds #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AccountSuspension #Transparency

ICYMI: Google clarifies ad account suspension policies with no enforcement changes: Google provides enhanced transparency for advertisers regarding account suspensions. https://ppc.land/google-clarifies-ad-account-suspension-policies-with-no-enforcement-changes/ #GoogleAds #DigitalMarketing #AdPolicies #Advertising #AccountSuspension

Google clarifies ad account suspension policies with no enforcement changes: Google provides enhanced transparency for advertisers regarding account suspensions. https://ppc.land/google-clarifies-ad-account-suspension-policies-with-no-enforcement-changes/ #GoogleAds #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AdPolicy #AccountSuspension

Gizmodo: ‘Free Speech’ Platfrom X Suspends Opposition Party Accounts in Turkey. “Following the arrest of the primary political rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdoğan, demonstrators have taken to the streets and to social media to protest the seemingly politically motivated action. According to Politico, some of those who have taken to speaking out against the government have been […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/gizmodo-free-speech-platfrom-x-suspends-opposition-party-accounts-in-turkey/

Binance enforces stricter measures against account misuse - The platform encourages users to report any suspected incidents of misus... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-new-security-measures-account-misuse #cryptocurrencyexchange #blockchainsecurity #platformintegrity #accountsuspension #misuseprevention #accountsecurity #fraudprevention #fairmarket #kycpolicy #binance

#Reddit #BanEvasion #AccountSuspended #AccountSuspension #BanningUsers #FuckUps

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Reddit isn't adequately testing their scripts. Those scripts are wrongfully banning their users. User's like me who had an account for 14 years. Reddit isn't answering the appeals they ask people to file through their site.

http://beforewisdom.com/general/reddit-is-suspending-accounts-due-to-a-bug-and-not-fixing-the-problem/

#Reddit #BanEvasion #AccountSuspended #AccountSuspension #BanningUsers #FuckUps

Reddit isn't adequately testing their scripts. Those scripts are wrongfully banning their users. User's like me who had an account for 14 years. Reddit isn't answering the appeals they ask people to file through their site.

http://beforewisdom.com/general/reddit-is-suspending-accounts-due-to-a-bug-and-not-fixing-the-problem/

#Reddit #BanEvasion #AccountSuspended #AccountSuspension #BanningUsers #FuckUps

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Reddit isn't adequately testing their scripts. Those scripts are wrongfully banning their users. User's like me who had an account for 14 years. Reddit isn't answering the appeals they ask people to file through their site.

http://beforewisdom.com/general/reddit-is-suspending-accounts-due-to-a-bug-and-not-fixing-the-problem/

No, I am not surprised about the #accountsuspension of various #journalists over at the #Twitanic.

The #Narcissist can never tolerate criticism, even when it is indeed just regular reporting, but he FEELS criticized. He will attack immediately; or - if he has some intelligence - he may play cool, but act on it in the background.

So, no all the domino stones falling are not surprising and he will continue to wreak havoc, as he enjoys all the attention it guarantees him...

#twitter, #twitterchaos

Security Research on Twitter: Before and After Musk’s Takeover

This is going to be a bit less polished than my usual writing, because I’m hammering it out before a busy day at work.

My Twitter account was suspended last night, around the same time that a wave of prominent journalists being suspended for criticizing Elon Musk.

My account suspension was a bit less egregious than how journalists were treated, but it’s still remarkable because I have several comparable data points from before Musks’s takeover.

Why Did @SoatokDhole Get Suspended?

It’s important to emphasize, for background, that Elon Musk claims to be a “Free Speech” absolutist.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586104694421659648

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596323842246545409

Yesterday, Musk banned the @ElonJet Twitter account, after explicitly promising not to. So much for free speech.

https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1603673062787932160

But his team took it a step further: They also blocked Twitter users from linking to the @ElonJet account on Mastodon.

They also banned the @joinmastodon account, shortly before adding the filter. Twitter’s going great, really!

Elon’s remaining Twitter staff apparently didn’t include any security experts, because it’s completely trivial to bypass their rule that prohibits posting a link to ElonJet on Mastodon:

• Capitalize any letter in the URL
• Append a query string (i.e. ?t=1)

Naturally, I pointed this out. And when I woke up the next morning, my account had been suspended.

Security Research Before the Age of Ruin

Being suspended by Twitter isn’t exactly a remarkable feat. It surely isn’t, by itself, worthy of blogging about.

What is more interesting, however, is I have a history of criticizing Twitter’s security.

1. My first real blog post here was about how, in April 2020, you could bypass Twitter’s client-side validation to make your Gender field hold a megabyte of data.

   This was publicly disclosed and widely exploited by trans people in protest of being misgendered by Twitter’s automation.

   No account suspension.

2. I was a loud critic of the Birdwatch feature when it was first announced. I even tracked down the employees that worked on Birdwatch and sent them DMs to notify them of my critique.

   No account suspension.

3. I’ve been a loud critic of Twitter features that use dark patterns to be user-hostile, such as Twitter Spaces. In fact, my article on how to remove Twitter Spaces was a top search result for relevant queries ever since I wrote it.

   No account suspension.

But criticizing their failed attempts to block people from posting a link to ElonJet? Banned.

https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561

My interpretation of this shift in response to security researcher criticism is that Elon Musk is an absolute pissbaby and the remaining Twitter employees are sycophants and/or afraid of another Musk tantrum.

Takeaways

As predicted, Twitter has gone to shit. It’s only going to get worse from here.

You can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected].

I don’t intend to rejoin Twitter, even if my suspension is reversed.

Epilogue

Shortly after I published this blog post, Twitter’s UI updated to inform me that my account suspension is permanent.

Rest in piss, Muskrat.

Update (2022-12-18)

Apparently permanent doesn’t mean what I thought it does, in this age of newspeak.

My appeal, for the record, was a link to this blog post with the accompanying text, “Your boss needs to get over himself”.

Twitter responded is a predictably stupid manner:

What’s funny about this is:

1. I didn’t post anyone’s private information, full stop.
2. I didn’t threaten to hack anything. I did imply that competent security professionals wouldn’t have implemented a filter as badly as Elon Musk’s Twitter did. But that’s not threatening to hack anything.
3. I haven’t posted any photos or videos. You can see the tweet they flagged has no media attached to it.

The only reasonable way to interpret what I did as posting “private information” is to assume that “Elon Musk is a fucking idiot” is some sort of trade secret.

Which it is obviously isn’t.

#accountSuspension #banned #ElonMusk #ElonJet #filterBypass #security #Twitter

Very uncomfortable to see that multiple Black women have reported having their accounts suspended for talking about #racism and #SocialJustice. The other white people I follow keep talking about how “nice” it is here, but others are calling it “white flight to the suburbs”. What can we do to make it safer here?

#accountsuspension

Want to ban someone from Instagram? That’ll cost you just $60 https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/want-ban-someone-instagram/ #accountsuspension #accountlockout #Guestblog #Instagram #Privacy