The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (Title 18 U.S. Code, Section 1030) states that unauthorized access to a computer network is a federal offense, with penalties of up to ten years in prison for first-time offenders and up to twenty years in prison for repeat offenses.

Under this law, if the federal government wanted to, they could put me in federal prison for up to seventy years on seven counts. (My first Twitter account was banned in 2014, and since then, I had seven accounts – dcinfowarrior, dcinfowarrior2019, dinfowarrior1, infowarsapk, infowarsapkstor, beardogg05241, and dc24876846 – banned. I currently have a Twitter account which is pretty much a parody of liberal vegans, so if you count that. I could face up to eighty years in federal prison on eight counts.)

Likewise, if the federal government wanted to, they could put Alex Jones in prison for the rest of his life for operating numerous ban evasion accounts such as BANNEDdotVIDEO and FWNTV. (BANNEDdotVIDEO was banned in 2020 for evading the permanent ban of Alex Jones and Infowars.) And for that matter, Owen Shroyer could face time in federal prison for evading his own permanent suspension. (The official story is that his @allidoisowen was banned for evading Infowars’ permanent ban.)

If you get banned from Twitter (or any other social media platform), just walk away and look for free speech alternatives. Ten years in prison is not worth creating a ban evasion account.