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Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com)
Twitter has made a serious effort as of late to limit hate speech on its social media site, especially after Election Day where "biased graffiti, assaults and other incidents have been reported in the news." The company now faces President-elect Donald Trump, who has used Twitter for the past 18 months as a megaphone for his views and rants, which many would consider as "hate speech." According to the American Bar Association, hate speech is "speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or other traits." Quartz reports: While Trump's deceptive tweets may not violate Twitter's rules against harassment, threats and "hateful conduct," Twitter is still keeping an eye on his account for more egregious offenses. This week, the company told Slate it would consider banning key government officials, even the president, if its rules against hate speech or other language were violated. "The Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies," a spokesperson wrote. Twitter confirmed with Quartz that everyone, including government officials, were subject to the policy: "The Twitter Rules apply to all accounts," a spokesman wrote. Trump may not have crossed that line yet, but he hasn't exactly refrained from making incendiary claims. Most recently, he claimed that Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who allegedly carried out an attack injuring 11 students at Ohio State University, "should not have been in our country." Artan was a legal permanent U.S. resident, whose family had fled Somalia for Pakistan in 2007. He arrived in the States in 2014.
Nope, "racist white male" is not a group unjustly persecuted.
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The ban on Nazi symbology in Germany will cause the rise of a Fourth Reich almost surely. The memory just has to get a little further distant, and the right mix of economic distress and/or military threat, some demagogue will use its taboo status to his advantage. It's a natural reaction to an unnatural ban. Banning names and symbols doesn't make their impact or ideas go away - if anything it keeps them more in memory.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
No, it is not the same. Not even close.
Being gay is a physical condition.
Bullshit. It's a personal choice. People claim that it's a physical condition just to stop other people from blaming them for that personal choice.
On contrast, Twitter will shut him up â" if he offends a religion more equal than other religions, or an ethnic group more equal than other ethnic groups, and so on â" and will not even explain, why exactly.
No, that's complete bullshit. Their rules are clear and application of them consistent and fair. The only thing not allowed is harassment and threats. Criticism, offence and more are all allowed, and in fact if you just go to Twitter right now and search for the usual hashtags you will find plenty of it.
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Being welcomed to a country you are not citizen of is not a human right.
True but let's not pretend that there isn't a HUGE component of racism driving the discussion. Let's not pretend that uninformed religious tribalism plays no role.
Refusing to have a rational discussion on this subject without accusations of hate and racism is how we got Trump.
You have that backwards. Pretending that there isn't hate and racism and failing to point it out is why we can't get a rational discussion. There IS racism and hate from those who oppose immigration. If someone is bigoted and you say nothing about it then you are effectively endorsing their ideas. You don't have to be an ass about pointing it out but remaining silent about the mistreatment of others is to condone that mistreatment. The people who are freaking out most (white conservatives primarily) about immigrants aren't interested in having a calm rational informed discussion about the topic and never have been.
If we really wanted to do something to reduce illegal immigration from Mexico and central America then the best solution would be to help those countries improve their lot in life. People come here for jobs and opportunity. That is why you don't see a lot of illegal Canadian immigrants - they have jobs. Fix Mexico's economy and the problem will go away. But instead we have a bunch of scared white people talking nonsense about building thousand mile long walls to keep out the people who are just coming here to earn an honest living. If we helped our neighbors instead of trying to keep them away we could actually solve some of these problems without wasting money on border security that won't secure our border.