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David Simon, creator of HBO's The Wire, Generation Kill, Treme, The Corner, and more, was reportedly banned from posting on Twitter after wishing death on several users in politically charged tweets.

On Friday, following the death of famous celebrity chef, and Simon's close friend, Anthony Bourdain, the television writer shared a short tribute, along with news of his Twitter ban, on his personal website.

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From: Simon Edhouse Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 3.29pm To: David Thorne Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design You really are a fucking idiot and have no idea what you are talking about. The project I'm working on will be more successful than twitter within a year. Award-winning TV writer and producer David Simon got into a heated Twitter exchange with Piers Morgan on Monday (5 April) following the former Good Morning Britain host’s interview with Fox’s.

'I have been banned from Twitter, and as I am at this moment indifferent to removing the tweets they insist are violative of their rules, it is unclear when I will return to that framework,' Simon wrote. 'So I’m hoping that if I post anything remotely meaningful about Tony, others will do me the favor of linking it beyond this digital cul de sac.'

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Though Simon's Twitter profile is still intact and online, he's reportedly unable to post new tweets. And while he didn't identify which specific tweets inspired the restrictions, several of his political tweets seem to violate Twitter's 'Violence and physical harm' guidelines, which clearly state: 'You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.'

On June 5, Simon told a user to 'die of a slow moving venereal rash that settles in your lying throat.'

You empty shitcrest, 'this kind of thing' is a new policy announced proudly by Jeff Sessions and adopted only by this administration. You should die of a slow moving venereal rash that settles in your lying throat. https://t.co/WubQkkXtk1

— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 5, 2018

And on June 6 he told another user to 'Die of boils.'

Making it simple? You're lying.https://t.co/g6XSUGUr8p
This is fresh and uglier hell. And by intent. Die of boils. https://t.co/P4Utq65jed

— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 6, 2018

Simon went on to challenge Twitter's rules in the post on his website, questioning why other tweets that he sees as harmful are not in violation.

'Suffice to say that while you can arrive on Twitter and disseminate the untethered and anti-human opinion that mothers who have their children kidnapped and held incommunicado from them at the American border are criminals — and both mother and child deserve that fate — or that 14-year-old boys who survive the Holocaust are guilty of betraying fellow Jews when there is no evidence of such, you CANNOT wish that the people who traffic in such vile shit should crawl off and die of a fulminant venereal rash,' he wrote.

'Slander is cool, brutality is acceptable. But the hyperbolic and comic hope that a just god might smite the slanderer or brutalizer with a deadly skin disorder is somehow beyond the pale.'

'The real profanity and disease on the internet is untouched, while you police decorum.'

Simon then went on to address Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, telling him to also 'die of boils.'

'As far as I’m concerned, your standards in this instance are exactly indicative of why social media — and Twitter specifically — is complicit in transforming our national agora into a haven for lies, disinformation and the politics of totalitarian extremity,' Simon wrote. 'The real profanity and disease on the internet is untouched, while you police decorum.'

Many users responded to the ban with outrage, calling on Dorsey to fully restore Simon's account or take the same action in all instances of rule violations.

Yesterday David Simon (@AoDespair) was banned from Twitter. Please read his post & share. When you do, tell @Jack to get his shit together & right this wrong. It’s America that’s dying of boils. Twitter is becoming one of the most pestilent. David is the medicine, not the poison. pic.twitter.com/Dye7gYmVLS

— Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) June 9, 2018

Uh, David Simon (Yes, from 'The Wire') is banned from Twitter currently. It is very bizarre who is allowed to remain on this site and who isn't. https://t.co/KnDjDYBbIKpic.twitter.com/6rfUTLLFTq

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 8, 2018

@jack Restore David Simon @AoDespair to Twitter immediately. To ban a renowned writer while allowing racist slanders & slurs such as those promulgated by the likes of Roseanne Barr is hypocritical & makes your so called code of conduct not worth the paper it is written on.

— Joe Guglielmelli (@BorchidJoseph) June 9, 2018

@jack Seriously, if you’re going to ban David Simon but allow so many hateful trolls to remain (including @realDonaldTrump) I have to seriously consider whether @Twitter is worth my time and energy. https://t.co/NBVcWs8yJZ

— Steve Perlstein (@ChefStevePerl) June 8, 2018

They banned David Simon from Twitter? JFC. This place is an ever-widening garbage pile. I literally got hundreds of harassing tweets over the last week and Twitter saw fit to deal with maaaaaybe five percent of them. Fucking hell. Nice job, @jack. https://t.co/8D3TgH56Aa

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 8, 2018

i am not a huge David Simon fan for a variety of reasons but banning him from twitter while the incels and pizzagaters and QAnon tools and white nationalists remain is just fucked up.

— Peter Krupa 🌹 (@peterkrupa) June 8, 2018

Hey @jack: Banning @AoDespair is like banning Mark fucking Twain (he was a writer from the pre-digital days. Wired did a thing on him).
BRING DAVID SIMON BACK.

— Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) June 8, 2018

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Really, @jack — this is the kind of platform you want? There isn’t a part of the vast media landscape that wouldn’t kill for the participation of David Simon (@AoDespair). Simply foolish. @Twitter@TwitterSupporthttps://t.co/ClRR2I0Rp9

— Bill Prady (@billprady) June 9, 2018

Apparently David Simon is banned from twitter. Hey @jack — there’s not a false word in David’s statement.
You are complicit. https://t.co/RIEO7Lzuyz

— Jordan Horowitz (@jehorowitz) June 8, 2018

David Simon has been banned from Twitter, while the most vile of people remain.
This platform is literally the worst thing to ever happen to civil discourse. It’s ruining us.

— Arwa Gunja (@Arwa_Gunja) June 9, 2018

The brilliantly outspoken & fearless writer @AoDespair has been banned from Twitter. David Simon lacerates those who spew reprehensible hate speech, bigotry, bat shit crazy conspiracy theories, & destructive lies. Silencing Simon’s voice sends a clear message from @Jackpic.twitter.com/eW0aZdJ8rx

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Rc plane simulator free download mac. — Marg Helgenberger (@MargHelgen) June 9, 2018

Several people brought up the fact so many other accounts that violate Twitter harassment rules — white supremacists, and big names like Roseanne Barr, who recently tweeted an extremely racist remark that led to her show being cancelled by ABC, and Donald Trump himself, who's been accused of violating Twitter policies several times and threatening violence against North Korea— have not been restricted.

In the past, Twitter has explained its refusal to ban the U.S. president by declaring his tweets 'newsworthy.'

While the platform wants to work to further prevent the spread of hate speech and has recently taken steps to crack down on bots and prevent on-site abuse, users seem to feel Twitter still has some serious issues to work out.

It remains unclear if Simon's posting restrictions are temporary or if his account could be restored if he deletes the tweets in violation of the rules. Mashable reached out to Twitter for comment and will update this post once we hear back.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire and before that a well-known hard-bitten journalist, has never been shy about his thoughts. One can argue it comes with the territory of writing work about everyday people so close to the ground, whether they’re longshoremen or his fellow journalists. But, apparently, his blunt tone has gotten him banned from Twitter, and he’s not sure he cares enough to come back.

Simon, who tweets as @AoDespair, often deals with political subjects, and just as often replies to people who come at him in equally unsparing terms:

I would agree with you, but then we'd both be racist, xenophobic fuckstubs with no actual understanding of the adjudication process by which asylum is legally determined. Blocked. https://t.co/2S2E8i1y0l

— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 7, 2018

But do not drag one one Tronc executive off the corporate plane or touch their year-end bonuses. What Wall Street and chain ownership did to American newspapering should be answered with piss-filled balloons dropped from a great height. https://t.co/RFWf4YZhwN

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— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 6, 2018

Making it simple? You're lying.https://t.co/g6XSUGUr8p

This is fresh and uglier hell. And by intent. Die of boils. https://t.co/P4Utq65jed

Comfortably Smug Twitter

— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 6, 2018

In other words, he’s much like one of his own characters. But, in a brief note mourning Anthony Bourdain, he reveals he’s been temporarily banned by Twitter, and may decide he’s not coming back:

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Suffice to say that while you can arrive on Twitter and disseminate the untethered and anti-human opinion that mothers who have their children kidnapped and held incommunicado from them at the American border are criminals — and both mother and child deserve that fate — or that 14-year-old boys who survive the Holocaust are guilty of betraying fellow Jews when there is no evidence of such, you CANNOT wish that these people should go away and die of a fulminant venereal rash. Slander is cool, brutality is acceptable. But the hyperbolic and comic hope that a just god might smite the slanderer or brutalizer with a deadly skin disorder is somehow beyond the pale.

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Die of boils, @jack.

Simon may be the most visible target of this phenomenon, where tone and name-calling matter more than content, but he’s far from alone. Twitter’s notorious abuse team is seemingly random in its decisions, and they happen across the political spectrum. It seems more likely to be tripped by name-calling than by content, something that, again, the entire political spectrum objects to. Twitter has even gone after parody accounts ripping Twitter for its capricious support, to illustrate what it truly thinks of the problem, we suppose. Granted, Simon has no lack of outlets for his thoughts, but many others suspended aren’t so lucky, and Twitter should look at more than name-calling.

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