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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Everything They Don't Like Will Be "Alt-Right" by Kunedog · 2016-11-16 05:31 · Score: 1, Troll

They'll now call everything they don't like (and want to censor) "alt-right"; they've already tried it with Gamergate.
Clint Eastwood - banned by dan_s28 · 2016-11-16 05:32 · Score: 0, Troll

They banned Clint Eastwoods account. Twitter Staff are the NAZIS. It doesnt matter who you vote for you should be heard. Seek the truth. Criminals like Hillary needed to be outed - Thank God for Wikileaks.
Re:Poor Nazis by AmiMoJo · 2016-11-16 08:13 · Score: 0, Troll

You won't get any. This is post-factual politics, if people feel that BLM are calling for genocide it must be true.

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