679 Mount Sinai – Coram Road
Mount Sinai, NY 11766
December 26, 2024
X Corp.
865 FM 1209 Building 2
Bastrop, TX 78602
Dear Sirs and Mesdames:
On December 23 of this year, you suspended my fully paid-for Premium-Plus X account. The email announcing that suspension gave as the reason “Inauthentic accounts.” Yet I have only one X account, and have used it only in a manner consistent with good taste and good manners. Since that date, I have written to your Support team three times, through the Support web page, to make an appeal and request clarification. I have received no follow-up communication, whether by email or telephone.
I have asked friends who have X accounts to use whatever mechanisms may exist to petition for your attention. So far there has been no change.
Thus, at this point I’m out over $180.00 (sales taxes included) for that Premium-Plus account, without even the ability to reply to another user’s tweet, much less the ability to post tweets of my own, or to post articles. And I still have no idea why you regard me as “inauthentic.” This is a travesty: a miscarriage of whatever passes for justice in these dark days. It amounts to petty larceny.
I’m not pursuing this matter through the courts because it would cost me more than I can afford… and yes, far more than the $180.00 you might conceivably refund me. Nevertheless, I write this day to tell you that you should be ashamed of yourselves for hiding behind an automated system that lacks judgment and discretion, rather than having a human being contact me, if only to tell me why you regard me as “inauthentic.” It’s behavior unworthy of your owner, who has my unqualified admiration for his achievements.
I intend that this entire matter be made as public as I can make it. Reply or not as you prefer.
Sincerely,
Francis W. Porretto
The above went into the U.S. Mail this morning. Now we shall see.
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It wasn’t until after I posted my tweet that I realized I should have used “stinkers” instead of guys, although the caricature suggests it explicitly.
As I don’t have a paid account, I can’t edit it. A paid account loses me what scant anonymity I still possess.
San Antonio isn’t all that far away from Bastrop. Loathe though I am to go anywhere near Austin these days, I could try standing on someone’s desk if it comes to that. Although unfailingly polite in such matters, the message gets delivered.
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You’re too kind, Bob. Let’s hope that won’t be necessary. Perhaps a day or two to await developments would be wise. But thank you, in any and every case.
That surely isn’t you. There may be some enemies of yours who sent in a complaint. It has long been a tactic of the Left to slander us to the tech mods who often don’t say what it is we’re accused of, and simply leave us hanging. That’s why I think a trustworthy ombudsman is what is needed there and other tech platforms that truly want to chuck out the wokesters. And that, my friend, still seems doubtful.
FWIW, I sent a copy of X’s notice to you to Elon Musk’s X account asking why someone at X would do that to a Premium Plus user.
I don’t have any level of membership on X and the years of their “shadow banning” and such has left me very skeptical of them. My suspicion is that with Musk having actively campaigned for Trump and now working at DOGE, the few of the former censors and such are still there and having noticed they’re getting away with crap again are getting more active.
Do keep us up to date on this, please.