This was a new position. I did the background check, references, etc and was set to start today.
Last week they announced a return to permanent masking at the school. I asked if the students in my choir class could remove them while singing. They denied my request.
I then asked to speak with the health department about the decision. They told me that was fine and to expect a call this weekend. The call never came. Instead, I received an email yesterday saying I was terminated. The reason? My resistance to the new mask policy (which was implemented AFTER I was hired).
Even more egregiously, I was completely purged from Twitter on Father's Day, June 18. I wasn't given a warning or explanation. Twitter is refusing to respond about the ban after over half a dozen appeals. Creepily, no one really seemed to notice I was removed despite rapidly approaching 10,000 followers. This is the REAL effect of deplatforming. There was no Streisand for me.
This is the EXACT same treatment I received from BandCamp and YouTube. I was banned from BandCamp in January 2022 in a similar fashion. They nuked my entire profile and refused to respond. YouTube followed up in January 2023 and deleted my ENTIRE channel of 16 years with ~500 videos (mostly ragtime piano). I didn't get a warning nor did I get 3 strikes first.
And now Twitter has followed suit. I had millions of views on songs on Twitter, and they were all removed.
When nobody stood up for me after the Twitter ban, I realized I had to move on. Fortunately, gigs are trickling back and I've been able to scrape by with a tiny amount of work. I was looking forward to this new position and now it's gone because I stood up for myself and my students.
I'm purged from the web, and can't find work without psychological and physical abuse.
Welcome to the free thinking self-containment zone where we aren't allowed to infest Twitter zombies with such ideas as freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of association, etc.
We sympathise with your situation, but not much we can do.
Somehow writing angry letters doesn't have any effect anymore. I have already deleted my google, twitter, paypal, linkedin and many other accounts in protest. As if it matters.
All you can do is go multi-platform, try to keep your income streams and publishing platforms many and always spawn two more, when they cut off one.
Become a hydra that they can't defeat.
BTW, like your songs, keep'em coming. If not for anything else, then at least for your own creativity and sanity.
Start calling local lawyers and see if you can get someone to volunteer (since you're unemployed and can't pay them) to go after these big companies and their financiers.
I believe earth isnt flat, and I believe virus's are real.
I dont know why people here think virus's are fake, there are some bigger than bacteria. But nope its all a big conspiracy to keep us all down, somehow.
Same people who think that a modern bible has any semblance of spiritual truth in there.
Natural order (inception towards death) inspires resistance (life), while tempting with termination...suggested orders tempts compliance, while permitting others to terminate ones resistance.
Terms (perceivable or suggested) and conditions (resistance or compliance). Your issue...applying perceivable resistance to suggested conditions.
asking department
a) asking (question) for suggested information (answer) departs ones mind from perceivable inspiration.
b) DEPART (desist; stop to proceed) tempts one to ignore being resistance (life) within procession (inception towards death)...others suggest desist as the inversion of resist.
my appeal...
...represents my submission to a higher authority; which me resisting compliance contradicts, hence me being put down without further ado.
This was a new position. I did the background check, references, etc and was set to start today.
Last week they announced a return to permanent masking at the school. I asked if the students in my choir class could remove them while singing. They denied my request.
I then asked to speak with the health department about the decision. They told me that was fine and to expect a call this weekend. The call never came. Instead, I received an email yesterday saying I was terminated. The reason? My resistance to the new mask policy (which was implemented AFTER I was hired).
Even more egregiously, I was completely purged from Twitter on Father's Day, June 18. I wasn't given a warning or explanation. Twitter is refusing to respond about the ban after over half a dozen appeals. Creepily, no one really seemed to notice I was removed despite rapidly approaching 10,000 followers. This is the REAL effect of deplatforming. There was no Streisand for me.
Cancelled: What it's really like
This is the EXACT same treatment I received from BandCamp and YouTube. I was banned from BandCamp in January 2022 in a similar fashion. They nuked my entire profile and refused to respond. YouTube followed up in January 2023 and deleted my ENTIRE channel of 16 years with ~500 videos (mostly ragtime piano). I didn't get a warning nor did I get 3 strikes first.
And now Twitter has followed suit. I had millions of views on songs on Twitter, and they were all removed.
When nobody stood up for me after the Twitter ban, I realized I had to move on. Fortunately, gigs are trickling back and I've been able to scrape by with a tiny amount of work. I was looking forward to this new position and now it's gone because I stood up for myself and my students.
I'm purged from the web, and can't find work without psychological and physical abuse.
Are there any choirs near you not run by queers? Perhaps a local church?
You’re great man, don’t let the parasitized state of the modern world get you too down
I send my sincere admiration towards your sacrifices on the front lines. If anyone "graduates" to the next level, it's you.
Welcome to the free thinking self-containment zone where we aren't allowed to infest Twitter zombies with such ideas as freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of association, etc.
Get your own web page. $3 a month.
Stop using other people's sites.
Look for web hosts that are "dmca ignore". Use a domain registrar outside the us.
$10 For a name. $3 A month to host.
Use free fileshare sites to host your big files.
Theres other ways too.
#And put an email address on your substack.
Rokfin? Gab.com? Subscribestar? linktr.ee? Rumble?
We sympathise with your situation, but not much we can do.
Somehow writing angry letters doesn't have any effect anymore. I have already deleted my google, twitter, paypal, linkedin and many other accounts in protest. As if it matters.
All you can do is go multi-platform, try to keep your income streams and publishing platforms many and always spawn two more, when they cut off one.
Become a hydra that they can't defeat.
BTW, like your songs, keep'em coming. If not for anything else, then at least for your own creativity and sanity.
Start calling local lawyers and see if you can get someone to volunteer (since you're unemployed and can't pay them) to go after these big companies and their financiers.
Birds aren’t real either amirite fellow conspiracy researchers
This guy doesnt talk for us.
I believe earth isnt flat, and I believe virus's are real.
I dont know why people here think virus's are fake, there are some bigger than bacteria. But nope its all a big conspiracy to keep us all down, somehow.
Same people who think that a modern bible has any semblance of spiritual truth in there.
I’m aware that he’s here to make all conspiracies look insane by posting crazy ones like that.
I used to not believe the Bible until I realized the people behind all the real conspiracies hate Jesus
Natural order (inception towards death) inspires resistance (life), while tempting with termination...suggested orders tempts compliance, while permitting others to terminate ones resistance.
Terms (perceivable or suggested) and conditions (resistance or compliance). Your issue...applying perceivable resistance to suggested conditions.
a) asking (question) for suggested information (answer) departs ones mind from perceivable inspiration.
b) DEPART (desist; stop to proceed) tempts one to ignore being resistance (life) within procession (inception towards death)...others suggest desist as the inversion of resist.
...represents my submission to a higher authority; which me resisting compliance contradicts, hence me being put down without further ado.
Using "twitter" makes one a consenting follower.
Most are still entangled; insnared; entrapped within the world wide web, while getting devoured.