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Twitter Has Suspended 235,000 Accounts Since February For Promoting Terrorism (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter has suspended 235,000 accounts since February for promoting terrorism, the company said in a blog post today. "Daily suspensions are up over 80 percent since last year, with spikes in suspensions immediately following terrorist attacks," the company wrote. "Our response time for suspending reported accounts, the amount of time these accounts are on Twitter, and the number of followers they accumulate have all decreased dramatically." The company said it's also expanded the team that works on flagging such content, and claims to have made progress on stopping accounts from starting again under a new handle. In a previous post from February, Twitter said it had suspended 125,000 accounts since mid-2015.
Wrong. TOCs for these services have clauses stating myriad reasons why they may drop you, and they are typically phrased in such a way as to be effectively arbitrary. The only reason ISPs don't invoke these clauses as often as Twitter is that it takes law enforcement involvement to tie an online action to an ISP customer in the first place. Harassment is chief among the reasons your phone company might drop you, and the only reason this is less common is that troll types generally don't have the balls to make direct contact with their target. These services are not holy bastions of 'free speech' (as in the freedom to be an aggressive prick to others) either, they just have fewer incidents of revoking access.