X/Twitter Account Now Suspended

Or on the definition of “free speech”—Elon Musk style.  Keywords: #free-speech #twitter

EDIT: When I first wrote this, I thought my feed would be available for anyone who logged on Twitter/X to see—although I could no longer post anything or interact with anyone. It turns out I was wrong: I can see what I have posted previously, but nobody else can. Hence, I made a video of my scrolling feed, going back to May. What follows is the corrected post, with the video link instead of the link to the Twitter profile—judge for yourself if you think it warranted suspension.

I have long held the view that there should only be two limits on one’s freedom of speech, namely, if the speech is going to be the immediate cause of unlawful action—think encouraging a starving mob to burn down the grain merchant’s house—or if it is going to be used to divulge private information, bereft of public interest.1 Of course, Twitter/X is not the public square—it is more accurately thought of as Musk’s digital fiefdom2—but still, one would hope that (relatively) polite criticism, even if including the occasional swearword, would be allowed. Alas, no.

Twitter Account Suspended

A video of my feed,3 from July back to May (of 2026), is available here—suspension means it has become permanently read-only to me, but invisible to everyone else—to allow the reader to judge for himself, whether the suspension was warranted or not. I can only surmise that it was due to either my scathing criticism of Israel/Zionism,4 or my scathing criticism of capitalism/mainstream economics (or both). The suspension is all the more surprising because I don’t actually post that much—most of my posts are retweets that I happen to agree with. Which would seem to suggest, chillingly, that the problem is not so much one of freedom of expression, as one of freedom of thought and association—apparently I agree with the “wrong” ideas… Welcome to the internet in 2026.

So what’s next? Well, as I said, I was never that much of an active X/Twitter user to begin with, so no big loss (I shan’t waste even the slightest amount of time with their “submit an appeal”). I guess I can always use the extra free time to start thinking, about how should a digital platform that actually encourages reasoned discourse, actually look like…

August 1, 2026. Got feedback? See the contact page.

  1. It should, in my view, by lawful to divulge private information, when there is an overwhelming public interest in doing so. The classical example is that of a “family values” politician arguing for the prohibition of abortion, whilst spiriting away his pregnant teenage daughter to a foreign country, to get an abortion without anybody noticing. The public’s need to know about such a hypocrisy should be self-evident.↩︎

  2. See Yanis Varoufakis, TechnoFeudalism—What Killed Capitalism, Vintage (Penguin Random House), 2024.↩︎

  3. The URL used to be https://x.com/notnotrandom, but now you just get a notice that I’ve been kicked out (“suspended”).↩︎

  4. I also criticise the über-stupid notion that criticism of Israel equates to anti-Semitism. Given the power of the Israel lobby, and the general fear—including among the élites—of being branded an anti-Semite, could this have been the reason for suspending my account?↩︎