Feminist writer suing Twitter for deceptive trade practices...
Meghan Murphy’s
war on Twitter
The feminist is suing the social media site. Good on her!
Canadian
feminist writer, Meghan Murphy, who was permanently suspended from Twitter last
November, is suing the social media site for deceptive trade practices and
breach of contract. ‘Twitter would never have attracted the hundreds of
millions of users it boasts today had Twitter let it be known that it would
arbitrarily ban users who did not agree with the political and social views of
its management or impose sweeping new policies banning the expression of
widely-held viewpoints and perspectives on public issues,’ Murphy’s lawyers
submitted. Good for her!
As I wrote at
the time of her ban, Murphy, who, like me, is constantly de-platformed, attacked
and vilified for daring to question the Orwellian madness of the transgender
Taliban, is a target of vicious trans activists. Murphy had the gall to tweet
about Jonathan Yaniv, who had demanded large payoffs from several female
beauticians because they had refused to wax his scrotum. Yaniv, who claims to
be female, had booked in for a Brazilian wax, a process done on women who wish
to wear extremely skimpy bikini bottoms and not flash any pubic hair. Murphy’s
crime? She referred to Yaniv as, ahem, a man.
The lifetime ban from Twitter has come as a
significant blow to Murphy. The freelancer relied on Twitter as a platform to
promote her writing and online magazine, Feminist Current,
and had painstakingly built up close to 25,000 followers, so the ban has
affected her income, as well as her reputation – after all – naive people still
exist that assume a lifetime ban is for spreading hate and threats of violence,
and not for telling the truth as they believe it.
I have also been a victim of Twitter madness.
Last year I received a visit from two local police officers who had come to
issue me a warning about an alleged ‘hate crime’ I had committed. Apparently, I
had tweeted something about how men with beards, penises, Adam’s apples, who
wear traditional male apparel, should not scream at and threaten feminists who
refuse to accept them as women. I had been reported by a trans activist, who
wanted me to be charged with a crime. I refused to accept the warning, and
showed the officers my Twitter timeline, containing a number of suggestions
that I should be tortured, raped and murdered several times over because of my
crimes of high TERFery.
Although I sent the police packing, I was handed down a 24-hour ban for my
tweet.
‘That in 2019, women are being still being bullied
and intimidated into silence should shock and anger us all,’ Murphy tells me.
‘This is not an issue of disrespecting or criticizing trans-identified people,
it is about preserving women’s sex-based rights and spaces, and it is about our
ability to speak the truth.’
This silencing of feminists like Murphy is
particularly egregious, as it is clearly an attempt by a multi-billion-dollar
company to muzzle a writer and journalist who refuses to get in line. What it
represents is an attempt silence all those who not only refuse to ignore
material reality, but who continue to ask questions about legislation and
public policy that threatens to destroy women’s hard fought for rights.
Twitter is not protecting marginalized people, or they would be
protecting feminists from death threats online and banning trans activists for
telling us to ‘die cis scum’. They are brazenly choosing to
protect predatory men over the women who attempt to hold those men to account,
and silencing women whose voices are already marginalized in the gender
identity debate — women who are already facing threats of violence, harassment,
attacks on their jobs and ability to make a living, and no-platforming in all
other arenas.
‘We lose so
much when we don’t stand up to this kind of thing,’ says Murphy. ‘We cannot
allow a multi-billion-dollar company to be the arbiter of truth, and to dictate
our free speech.’
Never a truer word spoken.
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