Billboard Chris
Case #
3926

Twitter censors Billboard Chris tweet, reverses decision after he visits Twitter HQ: Billboard Chris travels around Canada and the United States having conversations about gender ideology in children, and wearing signs saying things like "Children are never born in the wrong body" and "Children cannot consent to puberty blockers." He tweeted "I'll be on the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California this afternoon, having one conversation at a time about the harms of gender ideology. Feel free to come join me." Attached to the tweet was a short, 75 second long documentary form video of him explaining what he does, with some shots of children in school and a person at a computer. According to the screenshot that Chris shared, Twitter locked him out of his account over the tweet, claiming that it violated the platform's "rules against posting or sharing privately produced/distributed intimate media of someone without their express consent." Instead of deleting the tweet, which forces the user to agree to a statement that the tweet did violate the rules, Chris appealed, and his appeal was rejected. Chris then tweeted that he had visited Twitter headquarters in person, spoke to a supervisor, and his account was unlocked without deleting the tweet. However, an account level sensitive content flag is on his account, so every media that he includes in any tweets, including the aforementioned video, is now covered with a sensitive content filter. Such filters do not allow users on the mobile app who have the sensitive filter enabled on their profile, the default setting, to view the filtered content at all. On the web version of Twitter, the users must click through the sensitive content interstitial in order to view the filtered content. Not only do such filters give the impression of inappropriate content, similar filters have been shown to reduce user interaction with content. 

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