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

Posted by msmash on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:25AM 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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Twitter also wondering where profit is. by 0100010001010011 · 2016-11-16 05:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In a completely unrelated announcement Twitter has released a statement saying 'We're just not sure where all our users are. We will fail to generate revenue for the Nth straight quarter.'
The Alt-Right millennials have also discovered concurrent, scalable, live chat. While most are unsure how to use it they promise to figure out "IRC" sometime.