Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com)

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

Twitter has suspended the accounts of a number of American "alt-right" activists hours after announcing a renewed push to crack down on hate speech. From a report on The Guardian:Among the accounts removed were those of the self-described white-nationalist National Policy Institute, its magazine, Radix, and its head Richard Spencer, as well as other prominent alt-right figures including Pax Dickinson and Paul Town. Spencer, who according to anti-hate group SPLC "calls for 'peaceful ethnic cleansing' to halt the 'deconstruction' of European culture", decried the bans as "corporate Stalinism" to right-wing news outlet Daily Caller. "Twitter is trying to airbrush the alt right out of existence," Spencer said. "They're clearly afraid. They will fail!"

5 of 978 comments (clear)

  1. Poor Nazis by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's so hard being a Nazi now a days, for some reason everyone seems to think your a vile repugnant monster.

    --
    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
    1. Re:Poor Nazis by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's so hard being a Nazi now a days, for some reason everyone seems to think your a vile repugnant monster.

      Everyone knows anti-Naziism is really just a conspiracy run by the hair transplant and wing industries. Twitter is secretly funded by Rogaine! #sethtescalpfree

      --
      The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
    2. Re:Poor Nazis by gnick · · Score: 4, Funny

      The push to persecute Nazis is a conspiracy started by the Jews.

      --
      He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
    3. Re:Poor Nazis by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Funny

      First they came for the Nazis, and I did not speak out because I was not a Nazi ...

  2. Re:Do both Ends of the Spectrum by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, the left wing equivalent of the "Alt-Right" is the "Ctrl-Left".

    --
    The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison