The XRPL Labs account, after coming under scrutiny, has been banned by Twitter. XRPL Labs founder Wietse Wind drew attention to the silence that Twitter has maintained on the subject, despite having raised multiple fines in this regard. On December 15, Wind took to Twitter and famous:
“@TwitterSupport How about a little decency for once? Respond on support tickets? I really don’t understand how you can go about banning accounts without even replying once to the people and companies you banned. “
Wind noted that all he received from Twitter were automated responses and he was furious at the silence maintained by the social media giant on banning a “legitimate business with a physical presence in the Netherlands and Estonia.”
Wind also pointed out the multiple fake accounts that have been running on Twitter under his name, a point that even Ripple has brought up multiple times in the past. The wind declared:
So my business account is banned, can’t be unlocked, and ignores support requests, but is that okay? pic.twitter.com/3eha0kpEC9
– WietseWind {????????????????????????????: ????????????????} (@WietseWind) December 14, 2020
XRP and Wind had faced a similar problem in early 2020. On January 23, 2020, Wind had informed the community about Twitter’s decision to ban XRPTipbot. XRPTipbot was a cross-platform application that allowed people on Twitter, Reddit, and Discord to send XRP as a tip method. The service had been used by various charities that run on Twitter for various purposes, however, after being in operation for two years, it was banned on Twitter.
At the time, Twitter had claimed that the account violated Twitter’s rules, specifically, the phishing policy. Despite the social media company claiming to have taken these steps to protect its users from fraud, the ban on legitimate accounts has sparked several lawsuits.
YouTube claimed to do something similar to protect its users, but it was defendant by crypto company Ripple in April 2020. Ripple’s lawsuit challenged the tech giant for its improper action on scams running under the company’s name on YouTube and accused YouTube of damaging its brand. Although YouTube has already archived A motion to dismiss the lawsuit, such repeated actions by social media giants have been increasingly denounced by the crypto community and others in recent times.
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