Anonymous Claims Twitter Is Suspending 'OpISIS' Member Accounts (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday March 7, 2016 @04:50AM from the trouble-with-the-bank-robber-masks dept.

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.

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If twitter is killing terrorist accounts ... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-07 05:19 · Score: 0, Troll

If twitter is killing terrorist accounts, then killing accounts associated with anonymous should be included. They are nothing but "cyber" terrorists themselves.