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Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by hker999 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:25PM (#33387203)
The far left extremists on Twitter are still there, spreading hate, and never got banned.

Why so much attention to the far-right?

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by ButterWashed on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:37PM (#33387281)
I'm not on Twitter and yet I'm probably aware of far-right commentary on the platform. I can't say I'm aware of any "far left extremists" as you call them. Who are the "far left extremists" that you mention? Isn't there more attention to far-right Twitter accounts due to the increase in violence taking place in the name of far-right politics?
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by andrew_ on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:41PM (#33387315)
that may be true. it's also an indicator of the bubble you're a part of, if true.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by cypress66 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:24PM (#33387643)
It's not really a left vs right case, but there are many instances in both Twitter and Reddit of women openly hating men, which isn't censored, while the opposite (men openly hating women) is censored or punished.

I don't want to name individual Twitter users, but you can check the r/FemaleDatingStrategy subreddit to have an idea.

Edit: I've done a quick Google search on reddit of "I hate men" and "I hate women" and they both seem to be quite prevalent, so maybe there isn't that much of a bias in terms of banning users. Although I still believe there is bias in terms of which subreddits have been deleted, quarantined, or allowed to continue.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by yaddaor on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:36PM (#33387276)
Left and right are useless categories, trying to compare them is moot.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by hdjjhhvvhga on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:15PM (#33387579)
In general, yes. In this case - no, they're quite clearly defined.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by Overtonwindow on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:48PM (#33387386)
The far-left fights ideas it does not like with censorship and cancellation. The far-right is more aggressive at defending their beliefs. One says you must be silenced, the other says come at me bro.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by klyrs on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:21PM (#33387623)
Drag story hour is speech. Far right activists have been showing up and physically assaulting people to silence them, moderate right politicians are trying to pass laws against them or simply defund libraries to silence the speech they find repugnant. So called bastions of free speech: Gab, Parler, Truth: they all silence anything to the left of their worldview.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by gfsdgfsdgfsdg on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:34PM (#33387711)
What percentage of Republicans physically assault people to silence them?
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by JSchmoe on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:49PM (#33387825)
I don't think it's possible to give a useful answer beyond "some"
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by klyrs on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:51PM (#33387847)
Weird question, what's the point?
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by mcphage on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:45PM (#33388244)
> What percentage of Republicans physically assault people to silence them?

What percentage does it take for you to consider it a problem?

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by postultimate on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:46PM (#33388246)
Drag story hour is involving children in your fetish.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by watwut on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:19PM (#33387603)
BS. Far right is both openly pro censorship and also works hard at silencing opposition.

They also complained about being treated unfairly even when they are given much more leeway then their opposition

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by gfsdgfsdgfsdg on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:30PM (#33387685)
4chan is considered "far right" because they don't censor speech
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by mola on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:09PM (#33387969)
Yeah, and the blatant antisemitism there has nothing to do with it.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by watwut on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:07PM (#33396286)
That and right wing shooters originating and radicalizing in there.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by tablespoon on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:51PM (#33387409)
> Why so much attention to the far-right?

Because elite media is left-ish, and has great power to focus attention on some things but not on others.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by hdjjhhvvhga on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:19PM (#33387602)
> Because elite media is left-ish, and has great power to focus attention on some things but not on others.

I wouldn't say "elite", just mainstream. And they're not leftish, just left - for a variety of reasons, many of them being valid. Such as respecting minorities, promoting equality, etc. I think the problem happens when some people go to the extreme - and this immediately causes uproar on the opposite side. Unfortunately, social media amplify this conflict between the extremes. But most people are in the middle.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by klyrs on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:23PM (#33387635)
Fox news is elite mainstream media.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by cudgy on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:18AM (#33394253)
“respecting minorities, promoting equality”

Branding people left and right based on these qualities is lazy. There are people from both the left and right that exhibit these qualities. Also, there are racists that are left and right. I would even argue that “respecting majorities” is equally desired and exists for both left and right.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by watwut on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:16PM (#33387589)
Because it is more frequent and more aggressive. And also because it has many pretend-to-be-moderate types working hard to maintainstream them.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by felix_n on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:25PM (#33387648)
Sorry, I guess I missed the headline about a leftist activist driving a car into a crowd of people. Or the antifa member who murdered a dozen people at a church. Or the far-left dunces who arm themselves and show up at polling stations calling themselves "election monitors."

If you seriously can't understand why the treatment is different then you need to crawl out into the light of day with the rest of us a bit more often.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by gfsdgfsdgfsdg on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:27PM (#33387663)
There are literally attacks against the Asian community everyday but these attacks aren't reported in the national news.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by trs8080 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:05PM (#33387931)
Are you saying that leftists are behind "attacks against the Asian community"?
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by klyrs on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:52PM (#33388302)
I keep reading about them in the national news. A quick google for "Asian hate crime" gets me articles from NBC, CNN, new york times, the guardian, CBC, the Toronto Star, PubMed, the Brookings institute, nyc.gov, and justice.gov; that's just the first page.

I'd suggest your bubble as the issue, but you're clearly aware of this somehow. Did you learn about this on a news site that convinced you that other news sources are failing to report on this issue depsite evidence to the contrary?

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by sn0w_crash on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:50PM (#33387834)
Darrell brooks drove a car into a crowd of people.
Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by JSchmoe on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:02PM (#33387914)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/darr...

Never heard of this so looked it up. Dude had an argument with his ex while in a car, hit her a few times, she managed to escape, he drove into a parade some time later. The motive behind the attack is unknown. What does this have to do with the parent post?

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by sn0w_crash on Saturday October 29, 2022 @08:08PM (#33389298)
Brooks was an extremist who regularly posted that “Hitler was right about the Jews”

This has everything to do with the parent comment’s insinuation that political extremism is only a one way street.

Also you conveniently left out the part where he murdered 6 people.

“He drove into a parade some time later.” Unreal.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by JSchmoe on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:43AM (#33393214)
So he was a right wing extremist who murdered several innocent people. The parent was saying that left wing extremist attacks aren't nearly as prolific.

Edit: on further thought, no motive for the attack was established. This seems more like an act of random violence fueled by rage, rather than an ideological attack.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by ZGDUwpqEWpUZ on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:28PM (#33388119)
There's certainly a greater threat from right-wing extremists, but you'd have to be living in quite a filter bubble to have missed the "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests over the last few years, or any of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shootin...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/brett-kavana...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_an...

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by oliwarner on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:41PM (#33390048)
What is far-left extremism?

Marxism, cancel culture, environmental cultures (eg Just Stop Oil, Degrowth) etc all seem to focus on behaviour rather than the biological traits that attract far right attention.

I'm sure there are exceptions but being a dick isn't a protected class, so people attacking you for it aren't kicked off.

Re:Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within... by oliwarner on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:29AM (#33407195)
The votes on this comment are a disaster. I've seen it go up to +2, and down to zero more than once. Clearly a few people think I'm wrong but a downvote doesn't tell me or others why.

I know Left and Right are tribal lines, but in the context of a conversation, consider that downvoting something because it attacks something you identify with might not be as effective as engaging in that conversation. I'm probably too late with this reply to catch anyone, but I can only hope.