# Twitter bans MyPillow corporate account after Mike Lindell uses it to circumvent personal Twitter ban **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 3, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095 "2021-02-03T02:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/482 "2021-08-11T03:21:48Z")
Neither the FOX or OAN pages have a current story about it ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/483 "2021-08-11T03:42:36Z")
Their lawyers have probably weighed in, and told them that Dominion is going to collect a shit-ton of money from them as it is, and please don’t make the damages worse. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/484 "2021-08-11T04:16:17Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Someone else is going to have to take the bullet on this one, 10 minutes is about all I can stand Longer than I could. I turned it on just in time to hear some guy saying, “And they’re telling us, ‘We’re air-gapped because we’ve got a firewall.’ Anyone who’s been to Hackathon knows—” and that’s when I turned it off. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/485 "2021-08-11T06:31:57Z")
The beclowning continues. > ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/486 "2021-08-11T11:47:49Z")
“I was hacked” is the new “The dog ate my homework”. Mind you, if there is something to actually hack that Lindell is involved with, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that various hackers had had a go for shits and giggles, nor that its firewall is the virtual equivalent of wet tissue paper. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Mikey plans to be on-stage for 72 hours straight without eating or sleeping. I think we may be seeing a breakdown of epic proportions. Let me guess - he’s only consuming rainwater and grain alcohol? > [@bobot](#): > > Oh goody, he’s going after Dominion again. What an idiot. Dominion lawyers, watching this: [![](https://c.tenor.com/tF6GEKzFcocAAAAC/family-guy-stewie.gif) ](https://c.tenor.com/tF6GEKzFcocAAAAC/family-guy-stewie.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/487 "2021-08-11T12:01:31Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Let me guess - he’s only consuming rainwater and grain alcohol? Later he denied on stage that he ever said that _even though the tweets he was reading had video_. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/488 "2021-08-11T12:04:08Z")
This thread was linked in the WaPo article. A good read, if anyone missed it. > ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/489 "2021-08-11T13:30:13Z")
But there would’ve been a shipping and handling charge. Maybe $14.95, that was a common number for S&H for these tele-rip-off products. But there’s more……that would’ve been $14.95 _per pillow_. Because the commercial says……we are doubling the offer, you’ll get two for the price of one, just pay additional shipping and handling. So you’d pay an additional $14.95, even though the two pillows were together in the same shrink-wrapped package. Even though there was not an option to buy just one. So your $39.99 pillows really cost just under $70. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/490 "2021-08-11T13:58:20Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > We’re air-gapped because we’ve got a firewall Someone needs to tell them that opening their mouths is a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/491 "2021-08-11T14:15:29Z")
Upon rereading, I “think” that is supposed to be some of Lindell’s people saying that election officials were saying that. If that is correct, and if it’s not a lie, then those officials are idiots (I’m still of the opinion that Lindell’s people are also idiots, but I ain’t watching this shit any more). It’s still no proof of a hack. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/492 "2021-08-11T14:29:45Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > Someone needs to tell them that opening their mouths is a bad idea. I know next to nothing about how the intertubes work that deep but I’m _just_ savvy enough to know an air-gap\* has nothing to do with firewalls. The sentence pegged by BS meter so hard the needle broke. \*[mumble] decades ago one of my jobs in the navy was maintaining the in-house phone system we had for talking about sekrit stuff. It was entirely separate from the regular telephones, even [autovon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon). Wish we’d thought of a cool phrase like ‘air-gap’ back then. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/493 "2021-08-11T14:39:20Z")
It’s got an air gap! And a firewall! And an earthing wire! And…watersports! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/494 "2021-08-11T14:42:25Z")
Choke collar! Hobbles! ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/495 "2021-08-11T15:14:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s got an air gap! And a firewall! And an earthing wire! And…watersports! Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/496 "2021-08-11T15:27:33Z")
Dude onstage just led the “crowd”, and I use that term very loosely, in the most godawful singalong of “God Bless America” I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/497 "2021-08-11T15:52:54Z")
But if you call right now, do you get a second one ABSOLUTELY FREE just pay shipping and handling? And the ultimate test: does it make mounds & mounds of delicious coleslaw? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/498 "2021-08-11T16:05:38Z")
I used to service home lighting automation systems and whenever I went on a service call and found that a light wasn’t working because it was unplugged, my service report would say that the customer had inadvertently air-gapped the lighting fixture. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/499 "2021-08-11T16:16:59Z")
It even makes julienne fries! Admittedly that’s a terrible feature in a pillow but NOW HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/500 "2021-08-11T16:18:49Z")
If anyone tuned in to the mess later than I did last night, did the bastard make any kind of surprise announcement? No matter how nonsensical it would have been, I’m just curious about the tease that kept his rubes at the pillow store. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/501 "2021-08-11T16:41:28Z")
This is a total shitshow. They’re claiming that people are hacking into their systems, and that’s why they can’t get any of their “expert analysis” up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095.md?page=26)