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Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter has updated their site rules to prohibit "behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user's voice." According to the new rules, "You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease." This follows criticism that Twitter (and other social networks) haven't done enough to prevent the ramblings of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. "Tuesday's announcement did not disclose changes to Twitter's enforcement strategy. A company spokesman declined to say if any were in the works. The new rules also said that Twitter might respond to reports that somebody is considering 'self-harm' by contacting the person to express concern and provide contact information to mental health practitioners."
There's no such thing as "Only Black Lives Matter." That's a stupid belief common in the destructive reactionary subculture that made the Republican party a cesspool. Try to not be a stupid reactionary, we're up to our asses in those yahoos, as illustrated by Trump playing the indoctrinated wingnuts like a fiddle.
For anyone who thinks that the parent is exaggerating and who hasn't been following just how far down the rabbit-hole things have gone on the far-left (the ideology that dominates Silicon Valley these days, sadly), you should probably read up on topics like "Stare Rape" (and how it's not only hate speech, but also rape):
http://boysmeneducation.com/go...
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Europe learned its lesson regarding Hate Speech thanks to the Germans who have had the deep wisdom to ban it Entirely. Seems that Americans haven't learned that lesson... yet.
Exactly.
These rules are never universally applied, for example it is still allowed to harass, inimidate and demonize white people, Christianity and "traditional gender roles".
Similarily, in the official FBI crime statistics, "Hispanics" is a victim category but they are lumped into whites for perpetrators.
So when a Hispanic kills a white for racial reasons, the crime goes onto the books as a "racist white-on-white hate crime". (No joke, they really count that way in order to reach their anti-white race quotas - without Hispanics there are just too few hate crimes with white perpetrators.)
Most hate crimes are of course Hispanic on black and vice versa, so with that trick you get a ton of "white on black" and "black on hispanic" hate crimes even though whites have usually nothing to do with them.
You can call for genocide of white people in any politically correct medium and you will NOT get banned.