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Twitter Suspended Hundreds of Thousands of Accounts Amid 'Violent Extremism' (fortune.com)

Twitter said on Tuesday it had suspended more than half a million accounts since the middle of 2015 as the company steps up efforts to tackle "violent extremism" on its microblogging platform. From a report: The company shut down a total of 376,890 accounts in the last six months of 2016, Twitter said in its latest transparency report.

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  1. Re:What's the plan, Stan? by vvaduva · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's still censorship. It's legitimate and legal, but still censorship. The word censorship doesn't always have to carry a negative connotation. Parents censor the speech of their children often or the TV content their children are exposed to. There is nothing wrong with it.

  2. Re:So Hillary's account got deleted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lookie its creimer posting a political post again.

    Moderate conservative. The same guy that constantly insults and lies about everyone who is not a hard core as left as they come liberal. Let me guess, later on he will be spouting for Clinton... Looking later in this thread he did. Shocking! He lied again.

    Doesn't like the GOP nomination. Well, after the whole GOP nomination and Russian hacking and everything else, you know who DID rig an election? The DNC did, that's who. And yet not a SINGLE mention of that.
    - Superdelegates, well right there the DNC rigs their nomination process.
    - Donna Brazile giving debate questions to Hillary.
    - Campaign fund raising that is blatantly unethical, but legal because of strange loop holes put into campaign finance rules by the DNC when they were in power.
    - John Podesta literally editing WaPo articles before they are published to help Hillary and hurt Sanders.

    Yea, but you don't have a problem with that. Cremier doesn't have a problem with rigged elections at all, he has a problem with legitimate elections having outcomes he doesn't agree with. Your vote should only count if you vote the way he wants. That's right, his REAL problem with the GOP nomination is they didn't rig it like the DNC to prevent Trump. Seeing as he gave a pass to the rigging of the DNC and failed to explain how the GOP did rig it for Trump, that is the ONLY conclusion you can make.

    But, I better be careful. cremier has threatened to shoot me before when I said things he didn't like, and since I am calling him a liar once again, I expect more of the same.

  3. Re:What's the plan, Stan? by GLMDesigns · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been a union member. I'm also active in Libertarian politics. I read everything from the Reason, AEI, Cato and Heritage Foundation publications, The Economist, Wall Street Journal and have never seen "striking, unionization, the ability of workers to switch companies " associated with terrorism.

    All free market people are completely supportive (in concept) with striking and switching companies. There is a problem with public service employees being unionized because there isn't anyone negotiating on behalf of the taxpayers. The politicians want the unions on their side so ... who are the unions negotiating with. (That is the problem).

    Please show me quotes equating striking, switching companies with terrorism. Now there have been union goons, but that is not the same as equating unionism with terrorism.

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