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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!"

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  1. Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One account suspended merely replaced the word "black" with "white" to show the double standard Twitter has with race. For instance, someone would tweet "Can't wait for white people to go extinct" and the account would replace white with black. The person using the "white" tweet was never suspended.

    1. Re:Irony by Gilgaron · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yeah I enjoy both Oktoberfest and St Patrick's Day. The complaint in my eyes looks more like 'hey, we're victims, too!' Everyone wants to get the moral high ground of being suppressed more, and thusly everyone subverts any potential for real dialog.

  2. Re:What about the far-left? by mi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has anyone been threatened or harassed directly by those accounts, and did they complain?

    Raising the bar, aren't you? Do you sincerely doubt, Twitter would've waited for someone to file a formal complaint before permanently banning anyone calling for murder of the President-elect Clinton?

    Do you know, who filed such a complaint against Milo, when the "dangerous faggot" was banned by Twitter?

    Dual standard much?

    --
    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
  3. Re:Poor Nazis by nickberry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or they allow trending topcis like Rape Melenia...

  4. Re:Poor Nazis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm sorry but tolerating hate is not tolerance, it's cowardice

    It doesn't matter, the USA has enshrined freedom of speech in its Constitution.
    Or is this freedom only good when liberal elites use it to their advantage ?

  5. Re:Poor Nazis by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1, Interesting

    not some right-wing wacko conspiracy site.

    Why do you qualify that way? Because a left-wing wacko site like Daily Kos is acceptable?