# 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:** 59
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1163 "2022-04-21T18:31:45Z")
You won’t be so glib after you and 299,999,999 of your closest vote stealing cronies are locked up. If I were you, I’d start flushing all the packets while you still can! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1164 "2022-04-21T19:29:13Z")
He is obviously timing this for the network news hours. Nothing makes Lindell salivate more than the knowledge that both Cronkite _and_ Reasoner will **have** to lead with his bombshell! ---
**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:** [April 21, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1165 "2022-04-21T21:25:18Z")
Check the news. Lindell has exposed so much that a Russian chemical plant and a Russian missile research lab have burst into flames! If that’s not proof, I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1166 "2022-04-22T05:11:23Z")
And that’s only the injunctions. Just wait till he gets to the outjunctions. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1167 "2022-04-22T05:29:52Z")
It’s 10:30 p.m. here, so past midnight Washington time. Is Trump president again yet? I’m not seeing it mentioned in the news anywhere. Did I miss something? ---
**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:** [April 22, 2022, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1168 "2022-04-22T06:06:24Z")
Two. Weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1169 "2022-04-22T08:36:07Z")
So, did he actually do anything? Anything at all? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1170 "2022-04-22T09:46:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Check the news. Lindell has exposed so much that a Russian chemical plant and a Russian missile research lab have burst into flames! If that’s not proof, I don’t know what is. He’s just getting rid of his pillow supplies before the hammer comes down. Like moving stuff offshore but hotter. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1171 "2022-04-22T12:48:31Z")
Well, I’m calling it and saying everything did NOT go right. Which describes the last 6 to 8 years in general, but hey… ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1172 "2022-04-24T23:55:06Z")
Got his mug on TV for another news cycle. I can’t imagine that anyone has the time of day for the poor guy before too long. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyEcks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnnyecks/32/18197_2.png) [@JohnnyEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyEcks)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1173 "2022-04-25T00:05:44Z")
Coincidentally, I just listened to a podcast about his Absolute Proof “documentary “. At the end, they had someone sing one of his incoherent rants as a folk song. Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1174 "2022-04-25T00:16:45Z")
Got a link? ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyEcks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnnyecks/32/18197_2.png) [@JohnnyEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyEcks)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1175 "2022-04-25T01:49:15Z")
God awful movies, episode 287. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E63v1vD1XWw/maxresdefault.jpg "GAM 287 Absolute Proof") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E63v1vD1XWw) Song starts at about 1:54:25. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1176 "2022-04-25T02:54:59Z")
That was great. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1177 "2022-04-25T21:54:54Z")
With the recent news, there is rampant speculation on how the new owner of Twitter will have management handle things like this. Will Lindell and his idol be making a comeback on the platform? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1178 "2022-04-25T22:10:14Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Will Lindell and his idol be making a comeback on the platform? [Would anyone really notice?](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech/629673/) > Musk hasn’t given much detail about his vision for Twitter. But if he thinks it can exist without extensive content moderation, he is in for a shock. A [universal rule](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300261431/custodians-internet/) of user-generated platforms is that every one of them has to moderate posts once it reaches a certain size. A platform that refuses to dirty its hands by taking down content will soon become flooded with [scammers](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2022/01/social-media-gold-mine-scammers-2021), [porn](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/02/parler-pornography-problem/), [terrorist recruiters](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/02/trump-gettr-social-media-isis-502078), and, sometimes, [literal shitposts](https://gizmodo.com/parler-ceo-says-hell-ban-users-for-posting-bad-words-d-1844222360). And its user base, its advertisers, and the other tech companies it relies on to operate won’t like that. [Parler](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/17/parler-apple-app-store/), [Gettr](https://www.techdirt.com/2021/07/12/it-appears-that-jason-millers-gettr-is-speed-running-content-moderation-learning-curve-faster-than-parler/), and [Reddit](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/reddit-bans-steve-huffman.html) all learned this lesson the hard way. That’s not even to mention the tightropes platforms have to walk in dealing with [governments around the world](https://restofworld.org/2022/twitter-global-elon-musk/) that are ramping up pressure on platforms to submit to their will, often at the cost of their citizens’ free-speech rights. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1179 "2022-04-26T01:27:51Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > The end is nigh and nigh is Thursday. > > ['It's going to shock the country!' Mike Lindell insists his final triumph over 2020 election coming Thursday - Raw Story](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2657180484/) > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > So, did he actually do anything? Anything at all? Okay, some clarification on this. It seems that his Thursday action wasn’t actually trying to challenge the election. It’s an attempt to get all voting machines banned. He has filed an injunction in Arizona and intends to do all 50 States. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FwMrrDWFbrA/maxresdefault.jpg "Out of Breath Mike Pillow is Crazier Than Ever at Trump Rally") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwMrrDWFbrA&t=189s) I am somewhat in sympathy with him on this. Voting machines can be problematic. A voting machine can potentially be hacked, be wrongly set up, or fail in other ways. The result of the 2000 Presidential election was dubious. Machines that failed to count valid votes quite possibly changed the result. With any voting machine the potential exists for a repeat. In my country we have paper-only voting counted by hand. I would applaud if he USA did the same. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1180 "2022-04-26T01:35:36Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > The result of the 2000 Presidential election was dubious. BUZZ!! Wrong. Thanks for playing. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1181 "2022-04-26T01:49:33Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > … In my country we have paper-only voting counted by hand. I would applaud if he USA did the same. If you thought the 2020 election was a shitstorm, it would be a love-in compared to what would happen if most of the US reverted to hand-counted paper ballots. Between federal, state, county, municipal and judicial elections, initiatives, referenda, propositions, tax and bond measures, &c&c&c, it’s common for ballots to have a dozen or more offices and issues (the maximum I’ve seen is 31). This is not to say that voting machines are infallible, or that paper backups should not be retained for validation. But the logistics of using strictly paper ballots and tallying them manually would give a new meaning to “nightmare.” ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1182 "2022-04-26T01:59:07Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I am somewhat in sympathy with him on this. Voting machines can be problematic. A voting machine can potentially be hacked, be wrongly set up, or fail in other ways. The result of the 2000 Presidential election was dubious. Machines that failed to count valid votes quite possibly changed the result. With any voting machine the potential exists for a repeat. In my country we have paper-only voting counted by hand. I would applaud if he USA did the same. One of the major reasons why many people thought **at the time** that the 2000 election was “dubious” was PRECISELY because of paper ballots – specifically, Florida’s poorly-designed ballot. Here’s a copy of the ballot, with annotations. [![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3431c758506fdfedfb3c2288a9b35f6944012b7e/0_59_3082_1850/master/3082.jpg?width=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=834c3f1fd77e3241bf9f5c2f7d671087) ](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3431c758506fdfedfb3c2288a9b35f6944012b7e/0_59_3082_1850/master/3082.jpg?width=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=834c3f1fd77e3241bf9f5c2f7d671087) [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=58) [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=60)