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THE BULLY BLUEHOST

The bully Bluehost is no different than other internet and social media bullies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. The primary service of Bluehost is Web hosting done right which includes Domain name registration and sales. Bluehost also claims that WordPress made easy is one of their services. Bluehost promotes various marketing services designed to increase traffic to businesses and Blogs. These marketing services are separate from the Bluehost webhosting services. Unfortunately, for customers, when it comes finances, the bully Bluehost links their marketing services to their webhosting services.

My saga, as it relates to the tactics of the bully Bluehost, is detailed below. The issues raised demonstrate that the internet is unfriendly to We the People. Big Tech has all the power and We the people are at their mercy under the current regulatory environment. Drastic revisions or elimination of Section 230, which protects cyber bullies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube from litigation, are essential. The United States Congress should consider legislation regulating the internet and the bias censorship of all types of social media cyber bullies

Since Section 230 is part of the Communications Decency Act contained in the Telecommunications Act, which was enacted into law in 1996, this entire law should be evaluated for revisions that protects We the People from all forms of internet bullying. In my opinion, webhosting companies offering marketing services like Bluehost’s SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) social media link building and all non-webhosting services should be prohibited by law from deactivating a website when these services fail to fulfill their obligations to clients resulting in payment disputes. Ethically and practically marketing and all other non-webhosting services and webhosting are separate functions.

Disputes related to failures of marketing campaigns, as detailed below, and other services unrelated to webhosting should never result in website deactivation. Negotiation of all non-webhosting service failure disputes must include the possibility refunds or price reductions. Shut up and pay up or face deactivation of your website is not a business negotiation; it is a hostage negotiation. That is exactly what the bully Bluehost did to me.

This is how my saga unfolded. One of the marketing services that Bluehost provides to customers is SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) social media link building or Full Service Design and Social Media Management. This service claims it will drive customers to your store, blog or website. Consequently, I paid for the service for over a year. The social media management group promises to accomplish this goal by posting content on a regular basis to both Facebook and Twitter. Our agreement was for two posts per week on each of my Facebook, @MCCrossroadBlogsFace, and Twitter @MCCrossroadBlog sites.

While this service did build my Facebook following to just over 1,800 people, reaching as many as 1,000 people per week, fewer than 20 people per week followed links on their posts to my Blog, America’s Crossroad. After a few months, I started discussing the fact that the Social Media campaign was not [driving} customers to [my] blog with the account manager. Her answer was always what the promotion for this service states, Getting Social Media engagement is a process and results shouldn’t be expected overnight. However, more than one year is certainly not overnight; and the service failed to drive customers to [my] blog. Additionally, the service failed to provide two posts per week for one, often two weeks, to my social media accounts about 25% of the months of our agreement. In each instance, I requested a reduction in the subsequent monthly fee to compensate for the failure to perform their posting obligations. This request was always rejected, but the subsequent number of weekly posts was increased by the number of post failures instead. Finally, the service failed to fulfill its post requirements for two weeks at the end of October 2021. On November 4, I contacted my Bluehost Social Media account manager and terminated our agreement. She told me that the number of posts missed in October would be posted in November because she could not provide a refund for the service failures. Later in November, I learned that on November 3, my credit card had been charged for services which were terminated November 4. This revelation triggered a series of events that would introduce me to the reality of the bully Bluehost.

On November 18, I checked my Facebook and Twitter sites and saw that the Social Media Management services had not made the promised postings. The October 17 posting at the bottom of the first image below is the last post by the Bluehost service in October. I created the November 12 post at the top of that image. The November 18 post on top of the second image below is the next post provided by the Bluehost service. The post shown at the top of the first image below and bottom of the second image below are the same November 12 posting which I posted. The November 18 Bluehost post was posted at 11/18/2021, 4:00 PM. This was after I informed Bluehost via Email that I was disputing charges to my credit card related to this issue.

The Email text below was sent at 11/18/2021, 11:43 AM to my Social Media Management consultant:

Today I had to dispute charges to my credit card. You charged me for November and have failed to credit my card for the 11/3 charge that was made. I also disputed the October charge since the posts for at least half of October were not made and have not been done as you promised. In addition, I blocked further automatic charges to my card.

My card company told me that I should request a cancellation verification number regarding further charges to my card for your services which I cancelled on 11/4/2021.

This Email will become a permanent record If needed in this credit card charge dispute.

Unfortunately, this is a sad end to what I thought had been a good relationship regarding your services and my blog, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.

Mark

Her 11/19/2021, 5:28 AM Email response below showed me the reality of bully Bluehost tactics:

Hello Mark,

You reached out after the charges already went through for November and a refund was not requested. I let you know we would honor the amount that had been paid up to that point. I really wish you would have discussed this with me prior to disputing it with the bank because we could have worked it out.

I will close out your marketing account with us today. Please be advised when you dispute a charge with your bank, it will most likely lock your hosting account which will bring down your site so you will need to clear that up with the support team.

In spite of the fact that I informed the Bluehost Social Media account manager that I was terminating the service on 11/4/2021 by telephone, the above Email confirms that she did not close out [my] account until 11/19/2021, more Bluehost incompetence.

At 11/19/2021, 1:08 PM I responded:

I did not know that my account had already been charged on 11/3 when I talked to you on 11/4, or I would have requested a refund. Â I did request a partial refund of October charges due to your team’s failure to meet obligations in October which you refused. Consequently, I terminated your services based on October performance which was the third or fourth failure to fulfill posting obligations. The last October post was 10/17. The 11/3 charge should have been reversed. In addition, you promised that the failure to produce 2 posts per week on Facebook that were missed would be made up in closing my account. One post was made 20 hours ago by Stephanie Hanson, I guess from your team, not three. It is interesting to me that no action came from your team to make up missed October posts until I disputed the charges. This does not include the Twitter posts that were not posted. Since you were not able to produce Twitter posts due to the failure of your system, your price should have been reduced because you agreed to two posts per week on Twitter as well.

I fail to see what this dispute has to do with my blog site since that is web hosting and your services were supposed to be about building my Facebook and Twitter following. I would appreciate your explanation for this linkage and contact information for the support team.

Mark

At 11/19/2021, 1:133 PM, Bluehost responded by Email as follows:

Mark,

I’m not disputing the lack of posts that were promised, I just wish you would have discussed the refund request with me directly before disputing with the bank. I would have informed you any chargeback, regardless of the service, will cause a lock of your hosting account until it is resolved.

The phone number for the Bluehost support team is.

Early Thanksgiving morning, 11/25/2021, 3:48 AM, Bluehost sent the Email below:

Mark R,

Your web hosting account for americascrossroad.com has been deactivated, as of 11/25/2021.

(reason: customer did chargeback).

Since the Email was sent at the beginning of a long holiday weekend, it was not opened until 11/29/2021. As soon as I read this communique, I contacted Bluehost support to determine how to challenge the deactivation of americascrossroad.com. As with most internet giant bullies, the bully Bluehost does not provide direct telephone access for customers to present their case in disputes. It took two days to learn where and how to present my case. Bluehost representative gave me a case number and informed me that all discussions regarding my situation would be done via Email, no telephone discussions were allowed by the bully Bluehost when money is involved.

The bully Bluehost Emails continued on 12/1/2021, 11:18 PM with the following:

Hello Mark,

thank you for contacting support. I’m looking into case number 36955709. I understand your concern regarding account activation, and I appreciate your patience while we are looking into this for you.

Here’s what’s happened: From the records, I see that there are chargebacks on the account for the auto renewal of SEO Link Building – 3 keyword (Standard) for two months.

A payment and a fee will help us clear the chargeback and activate the account. We have provided access to the account for the next 48 hours to update the credit card. You can access the following link to update a new credit card.

Once the credit card information has been updated, please fill in the following template and reply to this email to confirm you authorize us to charge the total amount as well as the fee on the new card. I ______ authorize Bluehost to charge $XXXX to the credit card ending in XXXX.

We look forward to receiving your information email and resolving this for you.

It would be great if you could take a quick survey by clicking on ‘Tell Me How I Did’ at the bottom of this email and rate my support (5 = Best). The head up, the survey link is active only for 48 hours.

Regards,

Escalated Support

The arrogance of the last paragraph above is palpable. Consequently, I did not complete the survey, but I should have. I doubt they are interested in a 1=Worst rating.

On 12/2/2021, 5:21 PM, I responded to the bully Bluehost with the following Email:

SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) social media link building service to increase Facebook and Twitter ad campaigns described by Bluehost, Small Business Consultant, XXXXX, in a 10/6/2020 Email at 12:34 PM PT; and Bluehost webhosting are distinct functions with separate payment and contractual obligations which ethically should not be linked, in my opinion.

Consequently, your solution is inadequate. You have not investigated the Bluehost SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) service failures regarding the reasons I disputed the charges involved in this matter. I do not want to continue use the SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) service. I terminated the service on 11/4 for failure of the service to fulfill your obligations regarding Facebook and Twitter postings for 10/2021 and several previous months. This failure is the reason for the October chargeback. This failure was acknowledged by your SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) representative by Email on 11/19/2021 at 1:33 PM PT. This service is advertised to produce two posting per week on each of my Facebook and Twitter pages. No posts were provided by the service between 10/17 and 11/18/2021. I terminated the service on 11/4 not knowing that my credit card account had been charged on 11/3. If Bluehost was an ethical organization, you would have credited my account for the 11/3 billing since no work was performed by the SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) service between 11/4 and 11/18, actually 10/17 to 11/18, as documented on my Facebook page. This is the reason for the November chargeback. I have Emails and screen shots documenting your SEO Link Building – 3 Keyword (Standard) performance failures.

Hopefully, the information provided above will allow you to reactive americascrossroad.com or stimulate a personal discussion of the issues.

Please contact me personally if you need further clarification of my position on this matter.

Mark R. Champlin

Even after I provided the Bluehost correspondent’s name and Email dates and times, Bluehost did not think I have the documentation (shown previously) that they could access themselves. The bully Bluehost asked me to provide the documentation in their next Email to me.

At 12/2/2021, 6:01 PM, the bully Bluehost made the following Email request:

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your reply.Â I’m looking into case regarding account activation. I am really sorry for the inconvenience caused due to the unauthorized charges.

In order to assist you further in this matter, please provide us the screen shot of the emails which you have documented. It will definitely help to us investigate the issue.

We are an inbound call center and I am afraid we do not provide callback.Â If you wish to speak with our Phone support, then please feel free to call them at: U.S.(toll-free): (888) 401-4678. (Why? Phone support would know nothing about the issue under consideration!)

At the bottom of this email is a link to a brief survey that lets me and my manager know how I did. It would be very helpful if you could take it for me. (5 = Best)

A heads up, the survey link is active only for 48 hours.

Thank you for your time!”

Again, I did not complete the survey, but I should have. I doubt they are interested in a 1=Worst rating.

Although I have yet to respond to respond to the last information request, americascrssroad.com was reactivated on 12/3/2021. During this dispute with Bluehost, I contacted GoDaddy about the possibility of moving my website to their webhosting services. I was told that if the bully Bluehost continued to hold my website hostage by their deactivation, the best GoDaddy could do was accept my domain name with their service. In that case, I would have to totally rebuild my site and all its articles. Since I compose all my articles, including images and URLs in Microsoft Word, and save them, I could accomplish the task in about two weeks. Consequently, when I saw that my site was reactivated on 12/3/2021, I immediately contacted GoDaddy and started its migration process to their webhosting services. GoDaddy was able to quickly conduct the migration of the contents of the site and all that remained was transfer of my domain name to GoDaddy from the bully Bluehost to reactivate my website. Domain name transfer could take up to seven days. At 12/6/2021, 6:31 PM, I received another Email from the bully Bluehost notifying me that my website had been deactivated again.

On 12/10/2021, America’s Crossroad domain name transfer from the bully Bluehost to GoDaddy was completed and my website was once again active. At 12/13/2021, 4:23 PM, my first Blog Post with GoDaddy as my webhost was published. Consequently, I am done with the bully Bluehost.

My saga with the bully Bluehost is merely one story of how internet giants and Big Tech have all the power We the People are at their mercy. Cyber bullies like the bully Bluehost, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube will hold us hostage to extract money from us, suspend us, and exclude us from their platforms when our opinions do not conform to their woke, progressive, or Marxist norms. The United States congress must provide legislation that regulates all aspects of the internet and protects free speech and the rights of We the People.

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FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP IS DIVISIVE

Facebook censorship removed comments on my American’s Crossroad, Facebook page. This is a breach of the spirt of Amendment I and free speech rights. Twitter is even worse because it banned the Washington Post Hunter Biden lap top story calling it Russian disinformation when Hunter was under FBI investigation. Twitter also harasses conservatives. The Facebook censorship is documented in the screen shots below.

I commented on Timmothy Lemoine Price’s comment on a Post of mine starting with Yes, when. as follows:

A facebook post with an image of a person 's face.

After I completed the comment, the Most Relevant Facebook censorship line showed up above my comment and the comment did not show up in subsequent comments as shown below.

Apparently, according to Facebook censorship guidelines, a discussion of the antithetical nature of the principles of Marxism and both Christianity and Judaism is not relevant.

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!

This Facebook censorship occurred immediately indicating that their algorithm is written to prevent such discussions. Of course, we understand that progressive algorithms are written by, hold your breath, progressives. Why is Facebook afraid? Does Facebook know that Marxism is bankrupt in the face of Biblical Christianity and Judaism?

In my opinion, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google, to name the worst, have become venues for Marxist or progressive propaganda and the Democrat Party like our schools and progressive news media. They claim to be forums for the free open and honest discussion of ideas; but they act with impunity when they censor, cancel, and restrict conservative speech but allow offensive Posts by the Chinese Communist Party, Iran’s Ayatollah, and racist progressives to call Senator Tim Scott hashtag Uncle Tim” for over 11 hours. These social media hide behind hidden, undiscernible, and often illogical, rules with no reasonable and accessible appeals process. Many say conservatives should start their own platforms which is possible; but that would defeat the purpose of platforms for free, open, and honest discussion of ideas. Maybe progressives are afraid of truly open discussion platforms. Maybe progressives know their ideas are losers. Are progressives even afraid to debate that question? Based on the facts, I think they are. Let’s start the discussion with this fact. America’s Crossroad was the victim of Facebook censorship.

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US EDUCATION IS MARXIST PROPAGANDA

Marxist propaganda dominates the education system in the United States from preschool to Ph.D., Marxism PP. Around 1970, Herbert Marcuse stated that an educational dictatorship was required before the people of Western Europe and the United States would accept radical progressive Marxist thought necessary for radicle change. From the 1950’s through 1970, Marcuse taught Marxist critical theory at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis and the University of California, San Diego. He supported the world-wide Viet Nam anti-war movement in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. During an anti-war symposium discussion period in Berlin, summarized in The Frankfurt School Its History, Theories, and Political Significance. 1994, a student asked him this question, What material and intellectual forces are required for radical change? In his response, Marcuse admitted his helplessness, as follows:

“In order for new demands to develop, the mechanisms that reproduced the old demands would first have to be abolished; while, on the other hand, in order to abolish those mechanisms, the demand for them to be abolished would first have to be created. The only solution he could envisage [to cause radicle change] was an ‘educational dictatorship.‘”

A group of graduates in caps and gowns posing for the camera.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party, conservatives, and Biblical Christians failed to understand the goal of the Marxist plan for an educational dictatorship. The goal of their Marxist propaganda was to abolish those mechanisms hindering radicle change by abolishing teaching of everything positive about the United States. The sad and frightening result of our failure to understand the left’s goal for our education system is that the Marxist propaganda taught to our youth has succeeded in undermining our belief that the United States and our heritage has been an overwhelming force for good in the world. Marxist propaganda taught in our schools has succeeded in creating the demand to eliminate the influence of our Judeo-Christian heritage, support for our capitalist economy, and the positive influence of our national power and influence in geo-politics.

In the United States, progressives were working toward an educational dictatorship with curricula dominated by Marxist propaganda long before Marcuse verbalized the reality of their efforts. Calls for the left’s educational dictatorship were clearly outlined in The Communist Manifesto and subsequent Marxist rhetoric. Around 1990, they controlled higher education and had trained preschool through high school teachers. By the start of the twenty-first century, progressive Marxist ideology was taught from preschool to Ph.D., and the 2008 election probably saw the first group of voters indoctrinated throughout their educational experience by Marxist propaganda.

In his 2017 publication, The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America’s Civic Culture, Stanley Rothman called Herbert Marcuse “the Father of the New Left.” Marcuse was a member of The Frankfurt School, a group of Marxist philosophers who called themselves Critical Theorists to avoid close association with Russian communist revolutionaries. They were Marxist philosophers and social scientists with the Institute for Social Research, founded in the early twentieth century, at Germany’s Frankfurt University. Before the Nazis gained total control of Germany, most members of The Frankfurt School escaped, with their extensive library, to Columbia University via Switzerland. After WWII, many members of The Frankfurt School returned to Germany, but Marcuse and several other Critical Theorists remained in the United States.

Marcuse, through his writing, teaching, and rhetoric pioneered the mechanisms used to institutionalize the progressive left’s educational dictatorship and its curricula of Marxist propaganda. Since Marxism is “a body of rational norms” that has been largely assimilated into modern social sciences, the applicable principles of Marxist philosophy are now taught in each liberal art and social science discipline. Therefore, Marxist propaganda is incorporated in the curricula of philosophy, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, journalism, geography, the arts, and literature, to name a few. His progressive ideology regarding the role of art and man’s erotic nature in the true liberation of humanity and emancipation from bourgeoisie, capitalistic, society have also been incorporated into curricula at every level resulting in a major impact our society, culture, heritage.

Marcuse also formulated the strategies now being utilized by far-left progressive Marxist radicle revolutionaries seeking to transform the United States into a nation governed by the principles and philosophy of Karl Marx, socialism. He was one of the early radicle elites to use language from the critique of Soviet or Nazi regimes to characterize developments in the advanced industrial world. Today, this language is commonly used by progressive educators at every level, news anchors and commentators, and pundits as they characterize Republicans, conservatives, and capitalists who are not woke enough.

In his 1965 publication: Repressive Tolerance, Marcuse described how to establish his educational dictatorship and influence public discourse as follows:

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. [If movements from the left are blocked], their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements [from the right].

In classrooms and campuses from preschool to Ph.D., as well as society in general, toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements [from the right] has been withdrawn by undemocratic means, the Political Correctness movement and Cancel Culture.

Marcuse also described the groups of revolutionaries that the educational dictatorship could teach to become the radicle intellectuals needed to transform the nation our Founders envisioned into a socialist nation. A 1997 review of social and political theorist writings indicated that Marcuse believed the working class was no longer a potentially subversive force capable of bringing about revolutionary change in the United States. Instead, Marcuse put his faith in an alliance between radical intellectuals, the socially marginalized, the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other ethnicities and other colors, the unemployed, and the unemployable. Accordingly, these groups could be molded into the revolutionaries needed to affect radicle change in the United States. Subsequently, numerous curricula have been developed for groups that Marcuse thought could become a subversive force capable of bringing about revolutionary change in the United States. Departments and curricula for marginalized ethnicities and other colors and the socially marginalized were subsequently developed including Black, Native American, Hispanic, Women’s, and Gender Studies. New curricula, programs, and groups were developed by the radicle progressive Marxist faculty and graduates of these disciplines including Critical Race Theory, Black Lives Matter, the Lincoln Project, and the 1619 Project. ANTIFA, the useful puppet minions of the radicle, progressive, Marxist left, appears to be a movement made up of the marginalized outcasts and outsiders of our society.

Since one of the major goals of Marxism is equity of outcomes and distribution of the benefits of society, leaders of the educational dictatorship promote equity programs that reduce opportunities for gifted and exceptional students to advance their education at their own pace. These students are held back as long as possible to minimize their potential advantage over their peers. Critical Race Theory has a similar objective. The Marxist educational dictatorship has incrementally abolished support for teaching the critical role of our Judeo-Christian heritage, Christianity, the Christian Church, and Christian Family with a father, mother, and their children, and Judeo-Christian morality and ethics. This heritage was essential to our national success and history as the United States became the greatest nation in history.

Marxist educators slowly decreased support for the ideals of The Declaration of Independence that all men’s freedom is endowed by their Creator and that our Constitution, Bill of Rights, and all Amendments were ordained as documents set apart for the service of God. The Marxist propaganda disseminated in the educational dictatorship also began a methodical campaign to defame our Founders as racists because many Founders owned slaves who had been sold into slavery by their fellow black Africans. Conservatives of all stripes failed to understand that the Marxist educational dictatorship would also abolish support for our capitalistic economy, the rule of law and law enforcement, and a military strong enough to defend our nation against Marxist and former Marxist regimes and other dictatorships. Marxists throughout the world always support each other. These regimes include China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and other South and Central American Marxist regimes, Islamist dictatorships like Turkey, Iran, and Syria, as well as the Islamic terror groups throughout the world.

Obviously, the Republican Party, Conservatives, and Biblical Christians fail We the People when we did not understand the goals of objectives of the left’s educational dictatorship. Additionally, we failed to understand that the attitude of our people toward their Judeo-Christian heritage, our constitution, the rule of law and law enforcement, capitalistic economy, and way of life could be changed through an incremental Marxist propaganda campaign in our schools. Consequently, over half of our youngest generation now favor socialism over capitalism according to one national poll; and the leaders of many of our largest corporations and Big Tech support the progressive socialist agenda and policies. Marxist progressives dominate our mainstream news outlets, commentators, and pundits. Recent news articles indicate that many corporate executives support and promote many progressive, Marxist initiatives currently dominating our public discourse. In addition, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google now actively practice intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left, political correctness and cancel culture, using undemocratic means as Marcuse suggested. Although these corporations are not government agencies, they have failed in their patriotic duty to uphold the spirit of Amendment I of the Constitution by abridging the freedom of speech [and] of the press. In my opinion, since these public forums are licensed, sanctioned, and protected by congress, they should not be exempted from the requirements of the Constitution regarding freedom of speech [and] the press!

Three critical issues face the Republican Party, Conservatives, and Biblical Christians. Solving these issues will be a daunting task because we will have to reverse over fifty years of Marxist propaganda spread throughout our population by the left’s educational dictatorship. First, we must challenge the Marxist educational dictatorship that has been established in the United States of America before it is too late. Secondly, Conservatives must counter the Marxist left’s stranglehold on our education system by promoting conservative faculty and administrative participation in our universities. Thirdly, we must develop curricula that promotes all the positive facts of our national heritage. These facts include our Judeo-Christian heritage, our Founders and Founding Documents, the rule of law, our military as a force for freedom throughout the history of our world, and the progress we have made to fulfill the hope of The Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the rest of the Amendments. For the sake of the United States of America, failure is not an option. Our freedom is at stake!

TWITTER VERSUS CONSERVATIVES

Twitter versus conservatives and the GOP, Republicans, is a reality; and I have recently experienced it. On November 12. 2020 after logging into my Twitter account at about 1PM, I learned that all the accounts that I was Following had been deleted.

These accounts included President Trump, who has also been harassed by Twitter, Vice President Pence, Republican members of Congress, Tea Party leaders, and Tea Party accounts, conservative and Republican student group accounts, Conservative think tank accounts, and black conservatives like Candace Owens. These Following accounts were removed from my Profile sometime in the 10 days prior to November 12.

I immediately attempted to file a complaint about the problem. First, I went to the Help Center with the More link on my home page. At the bottom of that page, I clicked on Contact us, Experiencing an issue on Twitter? Let us know how we can help and clicked the File a Report link. On that page, I clicked the View all support topics link which took me to the Harassment link under the Report a violation column as shown below.

This link took me to a page with the heading, Someone on Twitter is engaging in abusive or harassing behavior. On this page, I checked Harassment under What are you reporting and Directed at me under These actions are. The page asked for the URL of offending Tweets or

A screen shot of someone on twitter is engaging in abusive or harassing behavior.

A twitter account has been blocked by the group.

it stated, If what you are reporting appears outside of a Tweet please provide details in the text field below. In that text field below, I detailed the deletion of those accounts I was Following as shown above. Under the heading starting with Someone on Twitter, shown above, the following statement was written in red: You missed some Fields! We’ve highlighted them for you in Red It was the URL field which the form stated, If what you are reporting appears outside of a Tweet please provide details in the text field below. I entered two possible URL’s for Twitter and Not a Tweet, in that field (See Above); but Twitter would not accept the complaint. In each of my attempts, I clicked Submit as shown below and received the Red error message shown above.

A close up of the email field in a computer

At about 2:30 PM on November 12, I gave up and logged out of Twitter. Later that evening, I logged in to Twitter; and, to my surprise, my profile looked different. The accounts that I was following had magically reappeared. I guess I should say, ALL’s well that ends well; but it smacks as Harassment to me. This harassment is an example showing that Twitter versus conservatives is a reality.

A twitter feed with the following hashtags :

Unfortunately, the above incident is not the first time that Twitter has caused problems for me. The last time, Twitter presented a Halloween trick to me by refusing to post a Tweet I attempted to post in response to another Tweet. I tried to post the Tweet a few minutes later; but Twitter would still not accept the post. This is a second example showing that Twitter versus conservatives is a reality. In both situations, Twitter never explained or attempted to justify its actions. Twitter acted against me because it is Twitter; and Twitter can do anything it pleases; especially, when conservatives and Republicans are involved.

A person is posting on twitter with an image of a baseball player.

MAKING A RACIST OLD WHITE MAN, https://americascrossroad.com/racist-old-white-man is an article from my blog, AMERICA’S CROSSROAD. It is the story of a man who changed from a young man who hated racism to a man who has lost respect for the Black community at large. To many, if not most, on the left, the fact, that I no longer respect the black community at large, makes me a racist. The question that Twitter and the left refuses to ask is a simple question; Is my very personal story of making a racist old white man an anomaly, a symptom of white privilege, or systemic racism. The fact is that my article, MAKING A RACIST OLD WHITE MAN, is an affirmative answer to another simple question. Are the race riots, looting, fires, and violence carried out by members of the black community that have occurred for decades and those following or in association with the recent BLACK LIVES MATTER demonstrations and their leaders, subsequently justified by both black and white progressives making racists of white people like me in all walks of life throughout the United States? If my story is not unique among white people in the United States, then social media giants, progressives, progressive black leaders specifically, and the black community at large might want to reconsider their strategy for accomplishing an end to racism in the United States.

It is my fervent prayer that we can end racism in the United States!

JUST A THOUGHT.

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