Want to promote some cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), crystal meth, or magic mushrooms?
Twitter might be the place for you. And the location isn’t going to do something to close down your account.
A reader pointed me within the path of quite a lot of totally different Twitter accounts which can be actively providing unlawful medicine to sale, directing events to name or WhatsApp a UK cell quantity, or contact them through electronic mail, Snapchat, Wickr, or Telegram.
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In some instances the offending tweets even embody quick movies of the unlawful medicine out there.
In the next screenshots I’ve blurred out the contact particulars of the particular person providing to promote the medicine, however they aren’t obscured within the posts – that are nonetheless stay on Twitter.
The emails comprise the names of UK cities the place the medicine will be delivered, presumably to make it straightforward for anybody looking of their space for a provider.
So, what’s Twitter’s response to this?
After reviewing the out there info, we wish to let you understand <REDACTED> hasn’t damaged our security insurance policies. We know this isn’t the reply you’re on the lookout for. If this account breaks our insurance policies sooner or later, we’ll notify you.
That was Twitter’s response on 22 January, after it was informed concerning the accounts on 19 January. The accounts are nonetheless actively posting medicine on the market on Twitter immediately (10 February 2023).
Of course, if Twitter did truly delete an account promoting medicine likelihood is {that a} model new substitute would pop up once more inside hours… quite like a mushroom.
If Twitter received’t do something about this, I wonder if a UK police drive shall be ? You would assume any police drive value its salt would have the ability to examine with the knowledge that’s being publicly shared in these tweets (electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers, Twitter accounts, and many others…)
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