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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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