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Twitter Has Suspended 235,000 Accounts Since February For Promoting Terrorism (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the taking-a-stand dept.

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.

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  1. Contra-Number? by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And how many people has it silenced who are against terrorism?

    I'd be more impressed if they didn't seem to have a little club that used a small cabal to decide who should be banned and who not... real trolls roam free on Twitter while people deviating from Group-Think are banned. It makes me question if the numbers they give are even real or just for show.

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    1. Re: Contra-Number? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Christianity was widely practiced in Athens during that time? Please tell me more.

  2. Nannybot 2016 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm against the promotion of terrorism and all that, but do we really want tech companies policing our speech?

    This would like someone listening to all our telephone conversations to see if we were talking about terrorism. Oh, wait...

  3. Freedom of speech by danbob999 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So twitter is against freedom of speech?

  4. BullShit by frovingslosh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They have suspended conservative posters simply because of posts of those people's followers, but they let ISIS supporters like Anjem Choudary continue to post.

    And while they might pretend to take some actions against terrorism. they seem to be doing nothing to silence posts promoting tourism.

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