We've banned this account for posting ideological flamewar comments. That's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

After following the account for a bit it was mostly just spreading rumours like "Baldwin deleting account because of Epstein trial" when in reality it was most likely related to the shooting. I can understand that it got suspended by people probably reporting some of these tweets.

It was far from a factual tracking of the events.

And yet we’re left to guess exactly what Twitter deemed us unworthy of reading.

The opaqueness of the censor is a feature not a bug.

Or, as it usually happens in these cases some algorithm suspended the account because too many users reported something and it got flagged and it's not some exciting intervention of the deep state.

That is pretty unlikely and not what was proposed. Pretty sure this would not happen to accounts that are deemed reputable sources. Also I guess there are exclusion lists for prominent people that are not beholden to the TOS.

If Twitter say exactly what brought the ban, next time the scammers will know exactly what to avoid.

But the line will be clearer.

"If the criminals knew how we'd try them in court they'd know to avoid it so let's go back to the days of the star chamber!"

(Obviously courts != twitter for the pedantic among us)

Looks like the account possibly tried to implicate an Intel agency several hours earlier?

https://twitter.com/HardensBetter/status/1468304975998578689

I would be interested in seeing the missing tweet if anyone has any ideas how to view a cached version.

Is that against Twitter rules? Implying intelligence agencies would secretly do something untoward?

Edit: The cached tweet: https://www.twitter.com/HardensBetter/status/146830497599857...

Many think Epstein was connected to intelligence. Evidence includes making videos of his guests having sex with young girls, a classic intelligence entrapment technique used by every spy agency in the world, a large supply of diamonds and Austrian passport to make a quick escape.

The past 5 years has taught us that on twitter it's ok to imply (and in many cases outright state) that the sitting president of the US is a literally Russian plant) without a fear of a ban.

In a normal world this would mean you could also imply that Epstein is an intelligence asset without fear of a ban.

But this is twitter world so who knows?

You can't attack another user like this on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. The damage it causes to the ecosystem outweighs any benefit of behaving this way. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

If you feel another account is abusing HN, emailing us at [email protected] so we can take a look at it would be one good alternative.

I apologize. I'm just about worn out by the conspiracy theorists after these last couple of years. That's no excuse – I should have just quietly notified the admins. I'm sorry, it won't happen again.