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Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism by whoops1122 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:55PM (#12314803)
I dont like the general direction of this censorship thing is going in USA. Anything that is not agreed with main stream media will get banned.

And if you think about it, in 1960s and prior, when civil movement wasnt the main stream, I bet twitter will ban Martin Lurther King's account as well.

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Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism by CaptSpify on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:12PM (#12321075)
That's my concern. I don't like ISIS, or what they have to say, but my racist ancestors didn't like MLK, or what he had to say. Who gets to decide what is censor-worthy and what is not?

Would Civil Rights ever have worked with censorship? What about LGBQ?

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