Not only can they close an account, they can easily have every other bank, building society, financial provider or utility refuse or end service to you as well. From what Nigel Farage described as happened to him, he will be deemed a risk based on his political stance and CIFAS markers can be added to any name and address in order to do the same thing for up to six years. Which ultimately means you can't even open a basic bank account, can't work, can't pay for utilities or your home if you don't outright own it because they're going increasingly cashless or function in society. All because you have differing viewpoints or criticised a bank or building society.
Quote: "Doing it hours before the end of the month after Musk has had a history of not paying contractors/suppliers screams that a major host for twitter is shutting them off at the start of July and "oh shit we have to turn stuff off or we'll not be able to keep the site up""
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919#issuecomment-1615881365 (https://archive.is/RN3mr)
There are also claims that web Twitter and the iOS app has also stopped working, despite the website being accessible (but only if you allow cookies).
It's now completely borked. Whatever caches were in place with those instances are now outdated and they can't access Twitter data.
And setting up burner accounts to get around this won't work in the long term either as Elon's whole point of buying Twitter was to get rid of bots and these burner accounts. Being a burner account is now a violation of ToS and they will demand a verified phone number or just close your account.
I would also be very skeptical of the term "temporary".
One issue I can see, the local bus company puts all of their last minute service updates for cancelled buses on Twitter and only Twitter. So today, if you need to know if your bus has been cancelled before travel, you must have a Twitter account to view them.
Another issue is that the local news groups now only put their news on social media and the social media firms have put them behind a log in wall. No social media accounts, no local news unless you wait up to a week to pay for the newspaper and that's on borrowed time already.
And many companies, even my electric and gas company, now only do timely customer service via Twitter. So if you don't have a Twitter account, you're stuffed and at best stuck waiting weeks for service.
Every instance of Nitter has either broken or will soon break as a result of this change. Archiving websites will also suffer the same fate as Twitter will also be dealing with inactive accounts that the archive sites are using to get around mandatory log in.
Unfortunately for Twitter and fortunately for the rest of us, whenever someone puts up a roadblock, we'll just route around it.
Remember Stuart Campbell, anti-GamerGate journalist? He got debanked too in the last few days.
https://bird.trom.tf/WingsScotland/status/1673371351942307840
Left or right wing, the banks are now actively closing accounts on political grounds.
Farage on GB News just now - his family now and in addition, in the past, UKIP candidates and media personalities who are right wing have had their bank accounts closed too and have also been refused a bank account.
He's the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader and current host of a programme on GB News. In terms of what he is being cancelled for, no-one knows because banks being private business, have no duty to inform you of why they do not want you as a customer of their bank. So don't inform you. The belief is that he has been categorised as a "politically exposed person".
Non-twitter link: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/Nigel_Farage/status/1674357026921623552
Archive: https://archive.is/SWczk
Considering Google just broke their own terms of service when it came to eighty per cent of their advertising that will require refunds should they have to adhere to contract law and advertisers demand it, they are potentially on the hook for billions of dollars. Their only option at that point would be to fully paywall the service. Which would then bring their eyes onto free competitions such as Rumble and Odysee and platforms which use the platform and its content for revenue such as Patreon and SubscribeStar.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebrianmoncada/status/1674070174884831239
They really do want to sell the concept of OnlyFans being a cost free and guaranteed money generating avenue for women to make money, don't they?
The reality is very different, particularly when it comes to dating red flags for men.
The cohort of men they describe are the ones they call "creeps" who give them the "ick", their natural reaction to an unattractive man that generates fear, repulsion and disgust.
Unfortunately for the men, the women have the sympathy and ear of Governments in the west and we are now seeing the first tentative steps of legislation being brought in to deal with such men, starting in Scotland.
This reminds me of how Ronald Reagan dealt with striking air traffic controllers, how Margaret Thatcher dealt with striking miners and how Bruce Gyngell dealt with striking technicians at TV-AM. This move by Spez has the potential to bring about lasting change for boycotts and moderation as those events did in relation to employment rights, the role of employees and the ability of striking (protesting) workers to be able to bring a company to its knees.
Bachelorhood, whether by choice, involuntarily or short-term relationships via PUA are a minority thing. The rhetoric on dating is made up of two minorities - the promiscuous ten percent and the long term single ten per cent. The rest will have had one partner, maybe two after a break-up within the period of a year. The vast majority of people find a long-term partner in time offline on online via closed social groups (not predominately via online dating) or and don't relate to this lifestyle. If anything, there is a backlash in progress. One example, DarkMatter2525's video on the "red pill" in recent days. Critics of bachelorhood need to ask themselves why marriage was invented when we created civilisation?
Tate has been declared the "leader of the manosphere". And I am already seeing a backlash against the concept of bachelorhood as a lifestyle choice, men failing to find a partner and men who are deemed to be "beyond help" because they tell us that finding a partner comes naturally to virtually everyone.
And it is something that has united the left wing (who believe not having a partner and such rhetoric is misogynistic) and the right wing (who believe that both are an affront to traditional family values).
One part of that lesson plan is going to be both outdated and will have to be removed should the UK follow Scotland's lead in introducing a new misogyny law and potentially redefine a sexual act as an act performed in front of another consenting adult. It's designed to deal with the declining popylation replacement rates by dealing with male singledom as a form of misogyny alongside a potential ban on adult entertainment (as opposed to just age verification in the Online Safety Bill), bachelor content online (things like "red pill", the manosphere, PUA, MGTOW and involuntary celibacy to name a few) and a clamp-down on soliciting and potentially dealing with the likes of OnlyFans. But it's likely to be a symbolic rather than enforceable.
In another related story, there was a teacher in a school in Retford who was reported for offending two students with gender dysphoria. His crime? He said biological facts. For that, he got both a local authority and DBS investigation. While cleared of both, he has to disclose that he has been investigated for the next five years. You won't be shocked to find out the school is part of the Diverse Academies Trust and works with Stonewall.
Worldwide. Twitter has replaced a whole load of services that companies would have to host themselves and pay the bandwidth and storage costs for. Instead, Twitter pays for it. Now Elon's had enough of their freeloading and so if you don't have a Twitter account, you can't get news, service updates or timely customer services from these companies.