Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts
by XJOKOLAT on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:11AM
(#12977106)
I agree with your conclusion but not the comparison.
The context at the moment is that there are many rabid, racist, some violent, followers of these sites out there who have recently felt validated.
If your gentle website "dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of African descent in the United States, and around the world." had a similar atmosphere of whipped up feeling around it, potentially leading to abuse/violence, I'd expect exactly the same response, or at least the need for response.
Whether the response is correct or not, as you suggest, is another matter, but your comparison doesn't accept the context of current events.
Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts
by brlewis on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:19AM
(#12977159)
It sounds like you're not only for banning abuse, but for banning emotionally-charged material that can make abusive people feel validated. To me that sounds like going too far.
The context at the moment is that there are many rabid, racist, some violent, followers of these sites out there who have recently felt validated.
If your gentle website "dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of African descent in the United States, and around the world." had a similar atmosphere of whipped up feeling around it, potentially leading to abuse/violence, I'd expect exactly the same response, or at least the need for response.
Whether the response is correct or not, as you suggest, is another matter, but your comparison doesn't accept the context of current events.