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Anonymous Claims Twitter Is Suspending 'OpISIS' Member Accounts (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous has claimed that Twitter mistakenly shut down several of its activist accounts in a widespread cull of pages belonging to terrorist supporters. In an effort to rid the site of an extremist presence, Twitter has recently suspended over 125,000 accounts for 'threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS.' However, the international activist group Anonymous is now reporting that among this number were multiple member accounts, which were actively supporting the fight against the Islamic State and helping to seek out terrorist supporters and recruiters online. Twitter has typically re-opened the Anonymous accounts within a matter of hours, bombarded with requests by hacktivists and the wider online community.
So the whole point of OpISIS is to shut down ISIS, and Twitter is shutting down ISIS.. I fail to see the problem here.
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Judging from the suspension of the account of journalist Robert Stacy McCain, disagreeing with Anita Sarkeesian seems a far more serious offense to Twitter's "Trust and Safety Council" than openly supporting Islamic terrorists.
They also refuse to restore his account or even detail why it was suspended.
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Sounds like Twitter forgot to take advantage of RFC 3514. More generally, I'd like to see this implemented more generally. It would make things a LOT easier!
Like all the conservatives in America they are banning. I mean we can't have collective, useful discourse with non-progressive/non-liberal terrorists, can we? Conservatives are all hate-filed racists, amirite?
Fuck twitter.
Big difference is that ISIS members do not crap their pants when they see a mall cop.
I know that Anonymous has this fantasy about them being some sort of white knight, but they fail to realize that they suck ballz and Twitter wants them shutdown just as much as Twitter wants ISIS shutdown.
If twitter is killing terrorist accounts, then killing accounts associated with anonymous should be included. They are nothing but "cyber" terrorists themselves.
Facebook started word based ban lists few weeks back, and old posts are removed if they have such a word. Tranny is on the list, which for many mechanics wonder wtf facebook was going on about their posts being against decency rules. Also Milo's "Dangerous Faggot Tour" posts are removed due to Faggot being banned. I wonder if there are any smokers who got their posts removed too. There there is the whole Twitter going after Milo, so social media censorship is getting out of hand.
I remember back when Microsoft banned usernames with Gay, and a bunch of people couldnt register if they had Gay in their names.
Its like 1990's internet all over again, banned words everywhere.
When private organizations (or worse even government) start trying to stifle debate, you hurt both both sides. And in America such organizations are hurting one of the basic freedoms that is supposed to distinguish America from places like Russia or China: The ability to have open debate on any topic, no matter how distasteful (note: threat is not debate). Yet without debate, we all just become mindless drones (which is what most governments like anyway). All of this is a modern examples proving what Ben Franklin said so long ago: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Killing open debate in this way (and killing opinions of people who may be in opposition of ISUS (ISUL) agendas in the process), doesn't create any additional safety: Supporters will just move on to other forums (and those supporting things like this seem to have no problem finding where other supports are), and the those against them will have a harder time dissuading them, because non-supporters of an idea don't find their opposites nearly as easily. "Like begets like" I think is the phrase here. We need a better way to influence through open debate rather than try to stifle it. Historically, it never seems to work anyway. Of course we can point out the obvious here: the KKK and Neo-nazis never had nearly big a reaction to their published statements, even when they were truly statements pushing for true domestic terrorism (as opposed to just speaking against current government practices which has often been labelled as "domestic terrorism" even when purely non-violent). But the reason for that is clear and sad: They were for the most part only threatening non-caucasian, so the powers that be didn't care nearly as much. We don't even seem terribly concerned that the KKK is supporting Donald Drumpf (trump via legal name change). We have such a long way to go before we truly become a "civilized" people...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Gee, one group defined by over-reaction over-reacting against another group defined by over-reacting.
We may have reached peak singularity on social media.
"multiple" accounts.
In a propaganda war the false positive rate of "multiple" out of 125k is AWESOME.
Especially since the false positives are "typically re-opened [...] within a matter of hours".
Am I just missing the SJW/teen spirit, or is there something real to this story? Perhaps this was submitted by a team from Twitter, bragging?
"all protected speech" doesn't include the activities of either ISIS or Anonymous.
Speech intended to incite crime (whether violent, like terrorism, or virtual, like unauthorized access to computers and information) is not protected.
Friendly fire.
Anonymous should just be grateful that it's nothing like the real thing.
Have gnu, will travel.
Friendly Fire is unavoidable in a war, just be glad in this case, it's easily undoable.
Not so easily done when you drop a bomb on the wrong target.
Keep throwing out ridiculous non-arguments and calling everything a conspiracy. As you can see, it is very convincing.
You didn't cotton on that the entire thing was making fun of the GP's ludicrous allegation? Or did you think I really think Anita Sarkeesian turned me into a newt? *facepalm*
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Twitter's goal is to shut down terrorist accounts. Anonymous is pretty much a terrorist organization, even if they do it for the lulz instead of for Allah, so I see no problem with shutting down their accounts as well.
how do you know? are you admitting to being a terrorist?
well someone did