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Related: About this forumGodless Spellchecker: Atheist tweeter suspended for 'abuse' has account restored
Tuesday 06 January 2015
Chris Green
Senior Reporter
A prolific Twitter user and podcaster who has spent years infuriating religious zealots by publicly challenging their dogmatic views and correcting their spelling mistakes is celebrating after striking a blow for free speech.
The Godless Spellchecker account has been repeatedly suspended from Twitter for what was described as the targeted abuse or harassment of other users. But to its 50,000 followers, its polite and pithy interventions amount to little more than an injection of reason and logic into the social media sites often inflamed religious debate.
On Saturday its owner, a 30-year-old office worker from Manchester called Stephen, received a message informing him that his account had been suspended again this time permanently. In an open letter to Twitter, published on his blog, he suggested that the sites complaints system was being abused in order to silence dissenting voices or genuine civil criticism.
Stephen, who requested to remain anonymous, told The Independent he suspected that prominent Twitter users whose religious views he had publicly challenged were trying to silence his account by repeatedly reporting him. While he said he saw the need for a complaints system, he felt the sites unthinking suspension of users who attracted controversy was flawed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/godless-spellchecker-atheist-tweeter-suspended-for-abuse-has-account-restored-9961442.html
http://www.gspellchecker.com/
https://twitter.com/gspellchecker
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)- Harry S Truman
rug
(82,333 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)tradewinds
(260 posts)Do you mean "awkward" in that it would offend you??
rug
(82,333 posts)Seems rather a hollow threat.
The only awkward thing I see is another baseless assumption in a post bearing your name.
tradewinds
(260 posts)mythical place of religion. Nothing awkward about that. Poor comprehension is the "AWKWARD" here.
rug
(82,333 posts)Do you mean it's not a literal place of flames?
tradewinds
(260 posts)Sorry about your condition.
rug
(82,333 posts)Don't continue to be shy.
tradewinds
(260 posts)I know that there can be various reasons why some have better reading comprehension than others. I would suggest consulting with the professional of your choice.
rug
(82,333 posts)tradewinds
(260 posts)Talk to this guy.
rug
(82,333 posts)tradewinds
(260 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Surely not as witty as posting a picture of a vacuum cleaner.
tradewinds
(260 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)At any rate, whether he is guilty or not is hard to determine, but I sure like the "targeted abuse or harassment clause in their TOS. We used to have something like that here. Sometimes criticism is wrongly called abuse, and sometimes abuse is wrongly called criticism.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)I read his last 50 or so Tweets. Have you? The highlights were pushing a charity drive and trying to stop people from outing ex-Muslim atheists in Pakistan because it threatens their life. What a dick, huh?
tradewinds
(260 posts)quarter here. And the spell check thing really pisses off some here.
Promethean
(468 posts)is a certain someone is on so many ignore lists that a lot of people that would very much enjoy your responses in this thread won't see it.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)What saddens me is that you are so intent on personally attacking me that you are blind to what is happening here.
But I guess so many people have me ignore that they won't be able to enjoy your response either. Pity.
Did you get your secret decoder ring yet? Certainly you have earned it.
rug
(82,333 posts)instead of willfully blinding oneself.
I suppose it's easier to be smug if unchallenged.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Given all the comments made about her family.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)I don't think it makes a statement, but it definitely makes being here a much more pleasant experience. I honestly don't feel that I am missing anything.
There is a difference between being challenged and being harassed.
tradewinds
(260 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)When you are so blinded by your wish to get me that you miss a troll of this magnitude, you really might want to consider taking a step or two back.
Honesty is important to you, right?