Sounds like a familiar story. Except when the big platforms boot someone for getting flagged too much, the platform will act like the administrators themselves made a careful moral evaluation of the account compared to the rest of their userbase.
If you have the right publicity or connections, you can reverse the censorship brought about through flagging. (See also: facebook's and youtube's frequent "whoopsidasy!" reversal of censorship actions when publicly embarrassed over them.) This looks like what Wheaton is trying to do here.
I wonder if this will cause Wheaton to be contemplative about how and why censorship on the big platforms works the way it does. Judging by the fact he's not using Twitter because they won't ban Alex Jones I doubt it. He seems to be using "it's different for me, because I like the kind of person I am" motivated reasoning.
Reports are local by default, but may be anonymously (kind of) forwarded.
My understanding is that reports are being made both against wilw directly, but also to his abusers based on activity in his threads. Whether the reference is to one or both classes isn't clear.
The mastodon.cloud instance admin has not (yet?) responded.
Disclaimer: mastodon.cloud is my primary instance.
If you have the right publicity or connections, you can reverse the censorship brought about through flagging. (See also: facebook's and youtube's frequent "whoopsidasy!" reversal of censorship actions when publicly embarrassed over them.) This looks like what Wheaton is trying to do here.
I wonder if this will cause Wheaton to be contemplative about how and why censorship on the big platforms works the way it does. Judging by the fact he's not using Twitter because they won't ban Alex Jones I doubt it. He seems to be using "it's different for me, because I like the kind of person I am" motivated reasoning.