Twitter is a joke.

I keep reporting accounts that call black people "nic gurr" to avoid being caught dropping actual N bombs and they are almost never banned.

I guess Daily Active User KPI is more important!

Edit - For anyone wondering about Trump's place on Twitter, he's not going anywhere. Twitter is extremely proud of his account and is using him in advertising in Japan:

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ads-featuring-donald-...

> I keep reporting accounts that call black people "nic gurr" to avoid being caught dropping actual N bombs and they are almost never banned.

This is a war you'll never win, though. People will keep inventing new combinations of characters as you ban the previously used ones.

That seems naive. It's impractical to technologically predict and exclude all undesirable letter combinations, but once humans get involved it's not hard to tell when someone is trying to slip the N-word. That's why there's a report button.

> it's not hard to tell when someone is trying to slip the N-word

Coded language like "states rights"[1][2] sill slips by a lot of people today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#United_St...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ

Political opinions, however reprehensible, are a different thing than slurs.

I suggest listening to the video [previous 2]. That political opinion is explicitly designed as a racial slur.

I think Twitter has not claimed they are content agnostic. That's the difference.

There used to be a time when twitter tried to brand itself as "the free speech wing of the free speech party"[1]. Obviously they have changed their stance by quite a bit.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/twitter-f...

The full quote was "The US has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."

The word "if" was probably the key factor here. Since his threat was conditional, that most likely puts it into a different category than outright threats.

"If you don't shut up, I'm going to kick your ass" is still a pretty clear outright threat despite containing the word "if."

More like, if you attack me, I will be forced to kick your ass.