Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by badlucklottery on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:51AM (#12974732)

>I'm defending the alt-right's ability to use Twitter for expression and talk with themselves, and with people that have shown interest in their ideas

I don't think this was an outright purge of the alt-right, just those they saw as ringleaders of abusive brigading. Alex Jones and other big names from that group are still out there doing their thing.

>Twitter should be wielding the banhammer in an egalitarian fashion on all groups behaving this way (per the views they hold themselves to.)

Absolutely.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by nsxwolf on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:26AM (#12976442)

Here's where I get confused. Alex Jones is alt-right? He hates racists and Nazis.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by badlucklottery on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:07AM (#12978627)

That's a good point. He's anti-establishment which currently makes him very popular with the alt-right since they can rally around his conspiracy theories about democrats/Israel/whatever else they don't like. So not self-described alt-right but someone who has been lumped into that pile due to some of his views over the last few years.

Unrelated but I have a sneaking suspicion the alt-right will break with him anyway as soon as he starts focusing more and more on conspiracies about Trump.

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