Remember Irish lesbian Mom?
Birdie writes:
A while ago I messaged you about my blog, ‘Irish lesbian Mom’, because Twitter deemed that I was selling sexual services or products, I assumed it was due to their negative sexualisation of the word lesbian.
After feedback from the Broadsheet readers I changed the name of the blog to ‘Two Irish Mammies’ but still no joy.
After more dead ends with their customer service and generic emails I took the advice of one Broadsheet reader and sought the advice of a solicitor.
A letter was sent citing my Data Protection rights and Twitter admitted that their policy team had judged my account incorrectly. I’m delighted that boring old me is not deemed pornographic.
I just want to say thanks to all the lovely comments and helpful advice from your readers. They honestly motivated me to keep at it as a matter of principle…
In fairness.
Previously: Irish lesbian Mom Writes
Well done, B. Delighted for you.
Thanks Brother Barnabas :)
Is the “two mammies” change permanent? I do like the new name, possibly even prefer it, but it would be nice to get the “lesbian” back in there to maybe go a small way towards making the word have a non-sexual connotation.
That’s a good point edalicious, perhaps I should include it in the about section?
I also like the ‘two mammies’ name – glad you got it sorted out, anyhow.
Thanks Rob_G :)
“two lesbian mammies” there you go….
Happy for you and muchas kudos for the nod to Broadsheet contributors.
It’s the best online Irish community in my opinion!
Tell that to Terry McMahon
They didn’t recant on the lesbian?
Hi LW,
I had changed the handle by then as I kept getting spammy porno bots.
They were challenged under section 6 & 4 of the data protection acts.
Also just to add they said that their policy team marked the account as selling sexual services or products due to an image on my account depicting nudity. They reversed the decision as you now know.
Mad to think my crappy illustrations of a pregnant body conjured up that reaction within the twitter policy team!
Sorry not my account, my blog.
Well good you got there in the end, pity you had to resort to legal pressure!
janey mack, someone actually actually followed my advice!
fair play birdie, glad it all worked out for ye :)
:) Thanks Scottser :)
Hooray. Delighted it’s sorted :)
Cheers Sheila & thank you for the follow :)
Nice work ! Glad you got that sorted
Thanks Janet! A victory for the blog & the Broadsheet community!
here, Janet… you see how Birdie followed up to tell us how things went!?
I am happy as a clam.
Good.
At least that sounds good. Not sure I’ve ever been that thrilled.