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Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism by mkaziz on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:52PM (#12314767)
Exactly - you want this information unavailable and out of the public eye. You don't want teenager X in the US becoming enamoured with publicly spewed IS ideology and deciding to do something to help them out. Teenager X is the sort of person who wouldn't actively seek out IS, but if it's directed at him, well, he may listen.

The question of who decides what gets culled is a different and far more nuanced question to answer - but I for one am glad that these accounts are getting closed down.

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Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism by siculars on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:10PM (#12314963)
Twitter doesn't work that way. You can't "direct" your message at someone unless you pay for an ad. People need to seek out these messages.
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Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism by mkaziz on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:14PM (#12314998)
It does if friend Y starts retweeting those kinds of messages. Or if you happened to follow a dormant account that has since been commandeered by IS. There's a million ways for those kinds of messages to enter your stream.
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