OSI Might be Using COVID-19 to Report Their Critics to Twitter (for Suspension)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-12-30 01:15:15 UTC
- Modified: 2021-12-30 01:15:15 UTC
I wonder, who could possibly have reported me for this? The OSI keeps doing this...
Summary: A week after the FSFE misused Twitter rules in an effort to censor critics it seems like the OSI is doing the same, by weaponising rules that are completely not related; this article must have struck a nerve and they don't want people to see it...
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