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It’s an Outrage: Tony Bruno Remains Twitter Banned for Unspecified Reasons
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Tony Bruno was suspended from Twitter more than two months ago for unexplained reasons.
After radio silence from the folks in charge, Miss Robin posted an update over the holiday weekend:
The latest on the @TonyBrunoShow Twitter Suspension. Un-F'ing-Believable. Someone at @Twitter HQ in SFO clearly has it out for him as there is STILL no actual example of why he was suspended.
After 66 days he finally got an email (pic1) Tony's response (pic2) & their reply today… pic.twitter.com/dawFxgyUPi— Miss Robin 🎙 (@MissRobinAustin) May 26, 2023
The first letter there is from Twitter, confirming that they received a request for account reinstatement. The second letter is Bruno explaining what happened, noting that his account was permanently suspended without warning for no particular reason.
In response, Twitter responded with this:
“Your account was suspended due to violations of our Terms of Service. After reviewing for reinstatement your account will not be restored.”
That very vague! So we reached out to Tony and he said this:
“I was told I was suspended for “violent speech,” yet no example given. I scoured my timeline to see what, of mine, could be considered violent and found nothing I personally tweeted. I am a journalist, a media personality and I use sarcasm and humor to report current events, news and opinions. I use Twitter as my main communication with fans.
There are those who don’t appreciate my sense of humor and clearly reported me falsely to hurt my brand. It is a complete outrage that something like this is allowed to happen.
Prior to Elon (Musk) taking over Twitter, I was suspended, throttled and shadow banned for years and truly believed that this kind of persecution towards non mainstream media would not be allowed any more. Clearly nothing has changed.”
If you look at Bruno’s account, @TonyBrunoShow, you just get an “account suspended” notice, so it’s impossible to go back through the timeline and determine what violated Twitter’s terms of service. It’s true that Tony posted and retweeted a lot of conservative political stuff over the past year or two, but there’s no indication that the suspension has anything to do with that. There’s no indication of anything at all.
The only thing we’ve got here is a Twitter non-response, so we can’t even make a judgment call on whether or not the decision was fair. The lack of detail is fugazi. It’s an outrage!
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com