Wittgenstein

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Twitter suspends user who shared video from World Economic Forum: A Twitter user who goes by Wittgenstein was suspended from the platform after sharing a short video clip. Wittgenstein shared the video on his Twitter feed, but did so in a way that the original owner of the clip, Andrew Lawton, was not receiving credit for it. According to screenshots shared with Free Speech America, Lawton appears to have filed a copyright claim with Twitter over the issue, expecting that Twitter would remove the tweet. However, Twitter instead suspended Wittgenstein's account, citing "multiple copyright violations" according to the screenshot. Allegedly, Lawton was surprised by this, and claimed that he was retracting his copyright claim after he explained to Wittgenstein how to share the video so that he would receive the appropriate credit for it. However, the user's account remained suspended. Free Speech America reached out to Twitter for a comment on the situation, but did not receive a response. Shortly after reaching out, however, Wittgenstein's account was restored, with the tweet in question removed. The account has been sharing other video clips and news coming out of Davos, and had approximately 98,500 Twitter followers when Twitter suspended it.

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