Suspended from X
UPDATE: It's back up.
UPDATE: I’m back up at X, but the “expiation” does not strike me as credible.
For the last several days, I’ve been suspended from X. I can’t access private messages or even read the site. I am locked out completely.
I invest in e-commerce companies and was flagged violating a “paid partnership” rule after posing a link with a coupon code. It’s not a paid partnership. I don’t earn a commission. It’s a coupon code for Cernovich on X readers.
I made my appeal, and there doesn’t seem to be any haste made in reviewing it.
Under X’s new policy, if I “violate” it again, I’ll be banned from X’s creators revenue sharing.
This is, of course, completely absurd. X has become a platform for lobbyists and foreign governments to launder their propaganda. They pay “influencer firms” money to push messages. Influencers post what they are told to, and nobody is any wiser for it. I’ve never taken the money. Everyone knows this.
Most of the “creator revenue share” goes to slop farms. People like me, who bring independent insight to X, aren’t making the big bucks (understatement).
The way to make big money is to pay people in Macedonia or the Philippines $3 an hour. Have them watch the cable news networks all day. Post clips. Get views. Make money.
Original thinkers know we are not the beneficiaries of the creator revenue pool. And I don’t want to run a media slop shop.
I always posted to Twitter, and now X, out of public service and concern for my country. One reason woke took over was because people of my caliber were busy getting rich in tech and finance. They checked out of politics, and then found out the state could kidnap their children and mutilate their physical parts.
While they got rich, I got censored and had to figure out a way to make a living.
I don’t regret anything. Had I not been around in 2015, we would be living in a much worse world.
Now I can’t even invest in companies, and post a coupon code to X, without wondering if I’ll be banned?
In any event, I’ll be posting more often to Substack.
I never bitched about the X creator revenue pool because at least I couldn’t be banned, and it was never about the money. I could make way more doing almost anything else. Now I can be locked out and banned on a whim? Then I may as well complain. X is being overrun with slop. There are 30 or so people in politics and media who keep X interesting. They bring original material and reporting to X. They totally get screwed from the revenue share. It makes more sense, business wise, to hire a server farm in Macedonia or the Philippines to harvest video clips from cable news than to do anything original. So the deal is I can't promote businesses I invested in without wondering if I'll get suspended? Total nonsense.
Thought you’d gone on holiday or something. This better get cleared up quick or something is seriously rotten in the state of X. TL feels empty without you. Hope it all gets sorted. God bless.