Martin Shkreli's ridiculous BAN from Twitter is a Welcome Mat for STEEMITsteemCreated with Sketch.

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

For those who haven't heard, Martin Shkreli (formerly @pharmabro on twitter) has now been suspended from twitter. The reason, as one article described it, was for "being a creep on Twitter and harassing a young female reporter for Teen Vogue".

Ironically, the reporter is Lauren Duca, the same ignorant angry hypocritical leftist who was recently shredded by Tucker Carlson over her own tweets suggesting it was okay to attack Ivanka Trump with her kids on an airplane.

However, when Shkreli photoshops a picture of his face next to hers, her head exploded as someone dared enter her "safe space" and she runs off crying to twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who unbelievably indulges her crybully temper tantrum and blocks Shkreli from twitter, just as he did with Milo Yiannopoulos, pushing twitter even further along it's impending death spiral.

Oh my, what a terrible horrible thing to do, asking her on a date as his +1 to the Trump inauguration and photoshopping his face on her picture! It's also probably one of the least trollish (and certainly more humorous) things I've seen on twitter or anywhere on social media. And while Shkreli gets banned, Ivanka Trump is trolled and harassed non-stop on the platform (again, with Duca's full support), racial slurs and race baiters abound, and ISIS runs rampant spreading their extremist propaganda...

Families of Americans killed by ISIS are suing Twitter for allegedly providing 'tremendous utility and value' to the terrorist organization (TWTR)

Full Story: http://www.ctpost.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Families-of-Americans-killed-by-ISIS-are-suing-10845815.php

And of course, twitter didn't ban anyone trolling Shkreli, "the most hated man in America", with any number of the nasty (and outright violent) Shkreli memes going around the past year. In his case, I guess twitter just felt he "deserved" it. Just check out a sampling of the hundreds of them going around social media last year from a simple google search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=shkreli+meme&tbm=isch

Troll the Troll

And perhaps most ironic of all, is that Lauren Duca was the one who first started trolling Shkreli and posting pictures of him on her twitter feed back in August last year after stalking him in a Manhattan bar!

3:37 PM - 12 Aug 2016 @laurenduca: Martin Shkreli is literally at Guy Fieri's Flavor Town right now. I don't even know.

Politics as Usual

So why wasn't she banned? Well, as we learned so well with our own YouTube channel, political leanings certainly seem to play a roll, especially for those who dare use a mainstream platform to "criticize" and "harass" someone on the left...

After the president-elect used Twitter last week to criticize Chuck Jones, an Indiana union leader who represents workers at the Carrier company, Mr. Jones reported receiving a series of threatening phone calls from Mr. Trump’s supporters.

NYTimes Link: Twitter Has the Right to Suspend Donald Trump. But It Shouldn’t.

Perhaps the most humorous part of this is the statement Duca made in a TMZ interview, "I'm a nasty woman honey. Don't come message me if you can't handle the fire!"

Yeah, don't come messing with me after I mess with you, or I'll play the weak little victimized crybully and tattle straight to @Jack to protect my "safe space" waaaaaaaaah!

She also released the following statement to The Verge, though she seemed to have forgotten to include her "harassing Ivanka Trump is your social justice duty" and "trolling Donald Trump to eat shit is okay" exception statement:

Martin Shkreli is engaged in targeted harassment, and absolutely deserves to have his account suspended. It’s unfortunate that the only reason people are paying attention is because he’s relatively high-profile. Trolling seems to be an automatic occupational hazard for female writers who receive any level of professional attention. That’s something Twitter needs to work harder to fix, but obviously the problem runs far deeper.

Full Story: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/teen-vogue-writer-cheers-abuse-ivanka-trump-children-tweets-peotus-trump-eat-sht/

Opportunity

However disgraceful this banning and censorship may seem, it again points to the impending demise of fully centralized social media platforms, and the importance of migrating over to new censorship-resistant models such as steemit. And with the opportunity to be rewarded for the privilege of doing what many are already doing for free on other platforms, is all the more icing on the cake.

For others who see the writing on the wall, consider sharing this and other incentivizing steemit articles with your friends across social media as one more reason to "make the leap". Once more people realize there's really no downside, and worst case they may still end up with a few extra bucks in their pockets to boot, a critical mass will be reached and they'll start flocking over in droves.

And finally, for those who've made it this far, this "debate" was simply to good not throw in:

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IvankaTrump Ivanka Trump tweeted @ 01 Jan 2017 - 19:35 UTC

Looking forward to an incredible year to come! From my family to yours, happy new year! 💫#happynewyear #2017 https://t.co/ZaIYGWnS8q

laurenduca Lauren Duca tweeted @ 12 Aug 2016 - 19:37 UTC

Martin Shkreli is literally at Guy Fieri's Flavor Town right now. I don't even know. https://t.co/HHJliuhnTn

tariqnasheed Tariq Nasheed tweeted @ 02 Jan 2017 - 19:31 UTC

Repealing Obamacare is just the white supremacists reminding Obama and other Black people that white daddy is in charge & Obama was a token

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I doubt shkreli would be interested in steemit. He has mentioned before that he has somewhat of a distain for cryptos in general.

he's still all over social media, and he was also using periscope (also now owned by twitter), so he got knocked off that too. and he's on tinder, discord, hitbox, youtube, etc. just wait til he comes across a few hotties on steemit and (for better or worse) he'll come running head over heals! lol

It's also probably one of the least trollish (and certainly more humorous) things I've seen on twitter or anywhere on social media.

I actually agree on this. Compared to youtube/4chan comments and trolls that was nothing. Also she did never specifically ask him to stop. Not saying that Shkreli's actions weren't as ridiclous/creepy/cringy as they were, but the action towards his account was even more ridiculous.

I actually sympathized a bit with the guy after how the media handled the entire situation, I can imagine there must be other factors involved than just him being a douche that wanted to raise the price of a drug for own profits.

by comparison, you may be interested in watching the interview Tucker Carlson did with Martin Shkreli:

and yes, compared to the vitriol we got on our youtube videos from 12 year olds to adults alike (some so bad I don't even feel comfortable repeating them here, so just imagine some of the worst things you can come up with), this was nothing by comparison.

Nicely written, Alex.

"I'm a nasty woman honey. Don't come message me if you can't handle the fire!"

Typical liberal/leftist hypocrisy.

Are you going to ask Shkreli aboard Steemit?

I use The_Donald as a major news feed these days

just came across the busy.org beta, and it sounds like steem+busy (especially with the traction it already has) may be steadily morphing into a base model that could eventually compete with everything from YouTube/FaceBook to Uber/AirBnb/Paypal:

As a non-profit organization, BUSY aims to bring value back to the people by replacing these monolithic, centralized, for-profit companies with a Decentralized Open Source Platform, enabled by Blockchain and peer-to-peer technology. We believe that Steem with Graphene can fulfill this mission notably through its high scalability and zero transaction fee model.

Using the power of the Steem blockchain, Busy is an Open-Source social network and communication platform that extends itself to a variety of rich features and functionality including free digital payments and a marketplace for goods and services.

A social media platform on Steem more like Facebook/Twitter/Rocket.Chat than Reddit/Medium like, An open platform for a future marketplace for Good and services

https://steemit.com/busy/@busy.org/busy-your-next-gen-social-network-platform-based-on-steem-blockchain

New Proposed Changes that appear to facilitate many of these new features as well as solve/normalize some current issues with steemit ecosystem : https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-0-17-change-proposal-introduction

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