Kaleb Nation

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 The OG #FreeSpeech Warrior @ogafroman @bfftaylor

This happens to me constantly nowadays, when I read a hit piece article about @DrDrew but I can immediately identify the author's deceptive retelling (because I was there when it happened!). Lost a lot of trust in journalists after witnessing them repeatedly lie about someone we know. Drew is always reminding people to be aware of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect – glad to see your mom saw straight through it

I am grateful to Don Lemon. In 2020, my mom listened religiously to CNN, buying into their unhinged covid fear mongering. After the GBD, she heard Don call me names on TV, decided CNN was fake news, and turned it off forever. It made her life so much better ever since.

@MikeIsaac I posted a TikTok for @DrDrew earlier today, and TikTok wouldn’t allow “#Minnesota” as a hashtag. Didn’t have this issue a week ago.

someone in tech please correct me if i'm wrong, but "our data center power outage is inadvertently limiting the reach of your ICE posts" does not scan to me

I think either it was a vulnerability that a mad player used to target our accounts (we play in squads with fill), or Epic / EAC mistakenly blacklisted our IP. When I tried to play using an older account on the same PC, it got banned right away too. The only way to play was to subscribe to GeForce Now so we were using their IP. There were months between the bans on my account and my wife's (each using different emails, PCs, and credit cards) but both were reinstated the same day. So if there are hundreds of players reporting they were suddenly unbanned in the past 3 days, then it was an EAC false-positive bug that they finally took the time to fix.

@KalebNation @FortniteStatus Ugh… that would be maddening, especially if you’ve invested a lot of time and money in it. Do you think it was a mistake or a “mistake?”

@FortniteStatus My wife and I have been playing Fortnite together every week for over 7 years. Both of us just got a 365-day ban for an "exploit." But this is impossible. I am 37 years old – I don't even know how to use a Fortnite "exploit." Look at my stats – there is no way an exploit is being used when my stats are so abysmal. This is the fun game my wife and I love to play on weekends, but I can't reach anyone at Epic to fix it. We are NOT using a VPN or anything that might falsely trigger your system. I've tried to get a human to fix this but I only receive AI-generated auto responses. Can anyone help? We just want to play Fortnite together over the holidays.

Epic support never responded. I was banned in July, my wife was banned in December. Their support acted like robots repeating the same stock replies, unable to comprehend that their anti-cheat system made an error. I was ignored for half a year. Then suddenly on Wednesday... Epic got to our months-old appeals, saying they reviewed the ban and "determined that it was applied incorrectly." Both accounts were reinstated. But of course, not even a whisper of an apology from Epic for letting this mess continue for so long, or an explanation of why they got it so wrong.

@KalebNation @FortniteStatus Did you ever get this sorted out?

Merry Christmas from the Nation Family! @bfftaylor

@Bob885474517743 @FortniteStatus Same ban we received. I'm trying to figure out why this keeps happening. The PC didn't have anything suspicious: no VPN, no weird hardware addons, no programs that might alter a game. Have you ever used Parsec or Speedify on your PC that got banned? Do you use a Peplink router?

@KalebNation @FortniteStatus i have also been banned first ir was 24 hours and now its 365 days hardware banned

@RoyalChamp2 @FortniteStatus My first ban happened 3 months ago, and Epic's AI support bots kept repeating the same statement over and over. It's clearly an error, but no human being ever gets into the support thread to help. So you're left with... all of these bot replies that you see below your post.

@KalebNation @FortniteStatus I also got false banned it’s been over a week and everytime I email they they reply by saying the ban was justified when I never exploited nor used vpn or cheated? Horrible support team

@FortniteStatus Can you help with this issue? We can provide any documentation required to show this was incorrectly applied to our accounts. x.com/KalebNation/st…

@229Wildcard Anytime! Any other issues, we're here to help. 👍

HOW did I miss this?!?! Felinos is finally available to earn through ranked bonus goals!

@FortniteStatus I'm only receiving responses from spambots. Can anyone help us resolve this? It is clearly an EAC error that has now affected two separate accounts, both with long account history and purchases.

@FortniteStatus I'd appreciate a human reply to this. We did not break any of your TOS or rules, and it is unusual for two individual accounts to be banned for the same reason with no response to appeals.

They kicked Dr. Drew off of tiktok while we were talking. There’s something deeply revealing happening right now, and if you’re paying attention, you can feel it. We’re finally starting to hear conversations that were off-limits for decades. Actual conversations. And that matters because when you silence discussion, you don’t eliminate harm. You just abandon the people living with it. Let me be clear about something. Rare injuries exist. They’re real. And when they happen, whether from a disease, a medication, or a medical intervention, they’re devastating. No one disputes that. But here’s the question no one in authority seems willing to answer: Why is it acceptable to talk about rare injuries in every medical context except vaccines? Why is empathy allowed everywhere except here? If a child is injured by a rare disease complication, we speak openly. We fund research. We support families. But when that injury follows a vaccine, suddenly the rules change. Suddenly you’re not allowed to ask questions. Suddenly the injury becomes invisible. Suddenly the parent becomes the problem. For those suffering vaccine injury, it’s not political. It’s their daily reality. And pretending those people don’t exist doesn’t make vaccines safer, but it sure does make medicine weaker. What I’m encouraging people to do now is simple, but powerful: trust your instincts again. Ask yourself whether you’re getting a full, well-rounded picture or whether someone has decided certain information is too dangerous for you to hear. Because the truth is real science welcomes debate. Real science isn’t afraid of questions. And real public health doesn’t require censorship to survive. Which brings me to the most telling part of all this. We had a conversation like this measured, calm, balanced, on a show. And in the middle of it, TikTok shut down the stream and issued a strike for “community guideline violations.” Just for a discussion. That’s why these debates matter. That’s why I’m encouraged. Because even when they try to shut it down, the conversation keeps happening. And every time it does, a little more light gets in.

@cstanley @ItsReallyNick While you’re fixing references to old domains… somebody should update the stream destinations in X’s Media Studio Producer. Custom livestream RTMP destinations still use “rtmp://va.pscp.tv:80/x” from the ancient Periscope days!

@ItsReallyNick Getting off of Twitter enrolled keys so we can stop doing hacky things for domain trust. Physical security keys are cryptographically registered to Twitter’s domain and need to be re-enrolled under X.

This seems odd

@SamuelBeek I'd love to test this for a @DrDrew video! Happy to share the results too.

Introducing AI Generated transitions; these are so dope - let me know if you'd like to test?

Another 24 hours later... maybe we were both right??

@KalebNation @ShannonKat40013 @designmom It’s why I’m just not going to throw my chips down any particular way. I think hard claiming he is a groyper or a leftist is flimsy.

I’m from Utah. Apparently the shooter is from my hometown. He’s a similar age to my kids. It’s plausible his parents and I know some of the same people. A couple of thoughts: 1) The church made a statement about the killing yesterday. They don’t regularly comment on shootings.

@evil_dallas @ShannonKat40013 @designmom I'm not deeply familiar with groyper ideology but from what I've seen, I'd describe them as "the antifa of the extreme right"

@KalebNation @ShannonKat40013 @designmom But do you consider them leftist or extreme right?

@ShannonKat40013 @designmom Those aren't the same. I don't consider groy**rs to be MAGA, just like I don't consider Ant*fa to be Democrats. They're subgroup sects of the Right and Left that don't really support politicians of either side.

@KalebNation @designmom Tyler Robinson was one of Nick Fuentes Groypers. His entire family are MAGA Trump supporters. Your Right-wing fake Christian hypocrite sources are unreliable and should be dumped.

@1masoren @ShannonKat40013 @designmom 24 hours later, I think you're right. I was relying on reporters I trusted, but now they're changing their stories yet again. Disappointing to see they'd run with such a flimsy source. I should always remember the 48-Hour Rule about breaking news.

@KalebNation @ShannonKat40013 @designmom This story has been updated with this section being retracted. I still think the question is up in the air.

@ShannonKat40013 @designmom As this is still breaking news, I understand there are some newer updates that you may not be aware of theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

@KalebNation @designmom Are you serious? His grandma, fool.