Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts

Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by vuanotino on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:25AM (#12965564)

I'd go ahead and call this a purge, when a few dozen accounts with a considerable amount of followers have been suspended for no apparent reason. Twitter saying they don't comment on individual accounts being suspended is really pathetic, when there's a more than obvious coordinated effort.

I'm not a fan of the so-called alt right, but this is starting to bother me, because it doesn't look like it's going to end well—where are they going to draw the line? Would they ban people such as Alex Jones? After all, under a strict definition of "hate speech", only a hippie would be innocent. Can I use the Twitter search feature and get the accounts of everybody posting "kill all whiteys" suspended?

Does Jack think there's hope for Twitter if he doesn't fucking leave already? It's in the nature of the platform; users will keep receiving insults and rape threats nonstop anyway. By upsetting users they can only accelerate it.

Sorry if I sound aggressive, but I couldn't ever imagine Twitter doing something like this. It really is something I could only imagine the zuck doing.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by norea-armozel on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:30AM (#12967060)

So what do you expect Jack to do when he has shareholders who want him to make good on promises of profit and growth? Just let teenagers who want to be ironically racist scare off your typical suburanite? Seriously, this isn't rocket science. Jack has a LEGAL obligation to protect the shareholders. If you aren't not a shareholder, then you don't count, sorry.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by programmernews3 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:38AM (#12965631)

Agree. This demonstrates the political direction that Twitter is moving towards. When I was more naive I used to believe that papers reported the news - now I realize that they apply their political bias to spin news. This has now happened with Twitter.

Newspeak is happening before our eyes but not in the direct way Orwell imagined.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by razakel on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @06:05AM (#12966018)

>When I was more naive I used to believe that papers reported the news - now I realize that they apply their political bias to spin news. This has now happened with Twitter.

Papers never reported the news. They exist to create the news.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by throwaway274739 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:20AM (#12966332)

It's a private business, they have every right to decline to provide service to (hateful, bigoted) people. Don't like it? Start your own damn website.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by ManlyBread on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:23AM (#12966346)

Being a private business is not a shield against criticism or hypocrisy.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by throwaway274739 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:31AM (#12966388)

What is the actual criticism? The Alt-Right is a hate movement. Twitter has a responsibility (both ethical and legal) to prevent their platform from being used to promote racism, sexism, Islamophobia, etc.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by ManlyBread on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:06AM (#12966534)

>The Alt-Right is a hate movement.

So is #killallmen and multitude of others, yet somehow these tags still persist.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by throwaway274739 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:49AM (#12966789)

A single hashtag is in no way comparable to a fast growing white-supremacist hate movement which counts he President-Elect's right hand man (Steve Bannon) as a member.

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Re:Twitter Is Banning Multiple Alt-Right Accounts by ManlyBread on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:17AM (#12966945)

Fine, Black Lives Matter then.

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