Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by fromthestart on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:49AM (#18238895)

This meme is originally based on the idea that not all people have an inner voice, and the supposition that people without an inner voice may be less likely to introspect and think critically.

I think the ban is a little ridiculous and likely has more to do with it's origin on a so called "far right" website than anything else.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by michaelflux on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:57AM (#18239010)

But with that said, what isn't 'far right' these days ...

I'm just counting down the days until Bernie is called far right because he's not throwing bricks through Starbucks' windows.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by simonsarris on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:28AM (#18239389)

Bernie is anti open borders, calling it basic globalist shilling. "It would make everybody in America poorer—you’re doing away with the concept of a nation state"

I bet if you repeated his opinion but didn't use his name on Facebook, some, uh, [leftward people with very reflexive opinions] would show up to argue with you.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by atomi on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:24AM (#18239978)

To be fair, immigration has been a mainstay of American hegemony. I don't think anyone supports doing away with borders, just that our immigration laws shouldn't be so draconian as to have things like children in detention camps and people spending days in deserts to seek economic opportunity.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by smsm42 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:57PM (#18245789)

Well, not Bernie himself but Bernie supporter has been beaten up as "fascist" in Portland for showing up with American flag: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/08/he_bro...

I can imagine some of these people would gladly call Bernie himself fascist - after all he's a Senator in the US government which they despise. So you may not be counting for that long.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by nailer on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:11AM (#18239182)

Anti-FGM activism and and reformist Islam have both been labelled hate speech according the SPLC:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/southern-poverty-...

While Twitter bans criticism of the left using the NPC meme, @dbwrf, a pro (yes they exist) FGM group is not only still up but also running a Twitter ad campaign supporting FGM.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by michaelflux on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:19AM (#18239288)

That story just illustrates how insane things have gotten.

Maajid goes "hey I'm a member of this group, I want to improve our culture/religion" and is labeled an extremist.

Meanwhile others from this group are raping children and the only thing that is said is "oh it's their culture, don't be so racist".

Blows your goddamn mind.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by tyu1000 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:52AM (#18239626)

Yeah, is The Onion going to get banned now? This seems like straight-forward parody.

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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by Nasrudith on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:32AM (#18239435)

I suspect the ban is based off of all of the post World War 2 scholarship on fascism and the list of signs and symptoms - when you have literal nazis not facing immediate ejection but being condoned, pushing every all while engaged in such a political shift such that George W Bush would be now considered leftist it is reasonable to be worried. Implying your foes lack even the sapience of a goldfish is /way/ more worrying in that context than the juvenile unself reflective solipsism.

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