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Twitter is banning people who tweet about killing Sean Bean in Hitman 2

Killing people in real life is a good way to get in trouble. Threatening to kill people is also not a great idea.

In the world of video games, though, we kill people all the time. They're not real people, which makes it totally fine.

Hitman 2, a game all about murdering NPCs, just released its first Elusive Target - a limited time mission where you have to efficiently take out a special character.

For the first one, your target is played by British actor Sean Bean, a man who famously gets killed in everything he's in. It's a clever partnership and people have been genuinely excited about being responsible for the actor's virtual demise.

In fact, some people have been taking to Twitter to chat about it. In a recent tweet, Twitter user @TheFatConsol3R mentioned that he was off to play the Elusive Target: "Looks like I'm gonna be killing Sean Bean tonight then." This resulted in a permanent Twitter suspension.

He's since tried to contest the ban, explaining that he was talking about a video game, but Twitter has ignored his emails. Be careful out there, killers.

Update: Four hours after this story was published, TheFatConsol3R's account was reinstated.

Whether this was pressure from the media coverage or the long email he sent earlier isn't clear. If I were you, I'd still tread carefully.

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Kirk is an award-winning writer from the UK's Lincoln, and has written for the likes of IGN, Vice, Eurogamer, Edge, Playboy, and several other magazines, newspapers, and websites. For several years, Kirk also acted as the editor of VG247.

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