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Zach Banner didn't practice for "undisclosed illness." Wonder if Cam has been hanging around him. The other player Isaiah Loudermilk is out with an "undisclosed illness," too.

Jerry, why were you in Twitter Jail??

[Jerry Oz]

Zach Banner didn't practice for "undisclosed illness." Wonder if Cam has been hanging around him. The other player Isaiah Loudermilk is out with an "undisclosed illness," too.

Jerry, why were you in Twitter Jail??

This might change your perception of me, but we'll see...

I had a different account for years until I saw a report about a Trump COVID protest and tweeted: "I wish ill on nobody, but let's hope if they get sick, they have the decency to die at home instead of clogging up the hospitals" and Twitter said I violated terms of service for threats or wishing harm on others. I didn't agree, but there's no appeals process, so I was suspended for a day.

Next, after Kentucky's attorney general Daniel Cameron [I think that's his name], swept the Briana Taylor murder under the rug, I referred to him as a "coon" in a tweet and Twitter thought that was over the line. It probably was, but since it was my second offense, I was suspended for a week.

Finally, Candace Owens tweeted something suggesting that we need to take this country back to its 1776 roots and I tweeted, reminding her that if this was indeed 1776, instead of tweeting, she'd be spending her time nursing Massa's children and Twitter banned my account for racist language. I insist, I didn't lie and that what I said wasn't racist.

Then, I got a different account [it wasn't easy, BTW] and got suspended for a week when I tweeted "Jon Gruden didn't get fired because he's a hateful [insert inappropriate pejorative here], he was fired because he was a hateful [insert inappropriate pejorative here] toward Roger Goodell". They said my unfortunate use of language was somehow "hate speech" and banned me for a week. Should have called him a "jerk" and they wouldn't have done it. Devil's in the details.

I'm not proud of any of what they cited, but I contend they took three of the four out of context. The "coon" reference was justly cited for being inappropriate. I get on Twitter now every couple of days and never respond to politics anymore.

To make things worse, I logged into Facebook about three weeks ago and was suspended for violating their policy against promoting violence. How, you may wonder? Because my cousin posted a story about guns in poor communities and I replied by saying [verbatim] "Why would I kill somebody? If I shot somebody and spent my life in prison, it means I hate them more than I love myself and that's insane".

Facebook's algorithm picked up on "kill" and "somebody" being used together and without considering the context of my anti-violence post, they banned me until I deleted it. They said I could stay suspended if I chose to appeal, but I deleted the post. How long do you think an "appeal" takes for an everyman like me when it took weeks for their favorite son Donald Trump to have his heard?

I'm rarely on either platform now.