What to do about the Twitter twats?
[I]t is definitely the time for Heretic TOC to be talking about Twitter twats and other social media jerks following a week of intense online hostility after my appearance on 60 Minutes. I wouldn't mind the blitz of over a hundred abusive tweets; I could put up with the 400 comments on Stinson Hunter's Facebook page, many of them extremely vituperative and offering illegal incitements to violence; I could even live with the death threats (as long as they aren't actually carried out, of course!), some of them explicitly threatening to hunt me down and inflict specific tortures, described in lovingly graphic detail.
All of that is just a bit of a yawn compared to the hostile acts already carried out: not physical violence but violations of the right to free speech. Facebook, bizarrely, instead of taking to task the people who were breaking their own Terms of Service (ToS) by posting messages that "bully, intimidate, or harass", or use "hate speech", decided instead to disable my account, even though it has been unused for a very long time and the page contained nothing remotely controversial. Twitter, with similar rules, soon followed suit, saying my account had been suspended. I was invited to file an appeal, which I did, on the 22nd, but there was no indication of when or even whether I can expect a response. The ToS say they can terminate an account at any time without giving a reason.
source: Article 'What to do about the Twitter twats?' by Tom O'Carroll; tomocarroll.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/what-to-do-about-the-twitter-twats/; Heretic TOC; 26 July 2015