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.
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.