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Twitter Suspends 300,000 Accounts Tied To Terrorism In 2017 (bloomberg.com)
According to a new transparency report, Twitter said it suspended nearly 300,000 accounts globally linked to terrorism in the first half of the year. The company is improving automation tools used to help block accounts that promote terrorism and violence. Bloomberg reports: Of [the nearly 300,000 accounts that were suspended], roughly 95 percent were identified by the company's spam-fighting automation tools. Meanwhile, the social network said government data requests continued to increase, and that it provided authorities with data on roughly 3,900 accounts from January to June. Twitter said about 75 percent of the blocked accounts this year were spotted before a single tweet was sent, and that 935,897 accounts had been suspended since August 2015, with two-thirds of those coming in the past year. American authorities made 2,111 requests from Twitter from January to June, the most of the 83 countries tracked by the company. Twitter supplied information on users in 77 percent of the inquiries. Japan made 1,384 requests and the U.K. issued 606 requests. Turkish authorities continued a trend of aggressively policing Twitter, making 554 requests for account data and issuing court orders to remove 715 pieces of content. Other governments made only 38 total content-removal requests.
Or is it rather 300,000 accounts from people who were not politically correct?
Did they suspend Trump?
Funny: Captcha was "unifies"
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If by US empire you mean people like the Clintons, Soros, the Rockafellars, de Rothschilds, etc, then yes.
If you mean every day decent people who for decades had no knowledge and no power to stop the aforementioned, then no.
Many people have a legitimate beef with the US empire, and any terrorism is well deserved to be honest.
Having a "legitimate beef" with someone doesn't entitle you to commit a terrorist act against them. I have a legitimate beef with people who double park, or cut me off on the highway, but that doesn't entitle me to detonate bombs in their homes, killing their innocent children.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
You really should stop reading whatever terrorist source taught you to spell Rockefeller.
Aside from that: "Twitter said about 75 percent of the blocked accounts this year were spotted before a single tweet was sent."
So basically, thought crimes.
Way to go, Twitter! If that doesn't stop them nothing will!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The twit-in-chief is still twitting away..
Remember, there are no stupid questions. But there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
No, basically IP based bans and automated spam filtering.
I don't use twitter, but they run the platform so they set the rules. If they state you cannot post X, Y or Z and you do and get autobanned for it and the tweet doesn't go through and you're prevented from creating more accounts to try to spam the same message again, that's not a thought crime, that's you not using the service correctly.
You may freely disagree with some (or even all) of their rules and policies, but that still doesn't change the fact that free speech does not translate to 'third parties must always publish my opinion on their platform.'
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
Having a "legitimate beef" with someone doesn't entitle you to commit a terrorist act against them. I have a legitimate beef with people who double park, or cut me off on the highway, but that doesn't entitle me to detonate bombs in their homes, killing their innocent children.
So what about people whose homes we're bombing? Are they entitled to return the favor, or is it right when we bomb them but wrong when they bomb us? Because nobody is bombing us because we cut them off on the highway, which makes your example complete and total bullshit.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Nope.
They aren't entitled to return the favor.
It's all wrong if that's the only justification you got. Completely insufficient.
"Twitter said about 75 percent of the blocked accounts this year were spotted before a single tweet was sent."
So basically, thought crimes.
Wait, Twitter can read my thoughts now?!? How else could they cut people off before they tweeted?
Or maybe they just noticed some asshat using the same IP address to create accounts in bulk and then starting to post terrorist propaganda, and banned the whole lot of them. Or maybe they deleted one account that posted something, and all the brand new accounts with zero tweets that were following them and only them in an attempt to astroturf.
Whenever Twitter uses even a tiny amount of intelligence to deal with abuse, people come up with all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
But yeah, how many were terrorists, how many were "not preferred opinions", and how many were just pissed at their governments for clamping down on free speech?
A sovereign being capable of critical thought can decided for him/her self what is and isn't fake news and what is and isn't terrorism. Free speech and all, you get what you get with it and it's worth paying for in spades, better than depotism.
First people to talk about fake news = H, Rodham Clinton and CNN = fake news
First companies to behave like facist governors = Twitter.
Being an asshole doesn't necessarily make you a terrorist or a purveryor of "fake news" (propagandist term if ever I heard it) , but being a terrorist does make you an asshole.
If you disagree, you are in my opinion a terrorist and by extension, an asshole.
WTF?
If it's wrong to remove hate speech they should leave isis alone. Free speech and all
are being allowed to post, seeing as many of them are not classified as "terrorists" even though they bomb, burn, kill, threaten, etc.
Republican leadership = Idiocracy
So, basically, TOS.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l... will her account be suspended?
Republican leadership = Idiocracy
They hired Anita Sarkeesian. "Terrorism" probably means you politely disagree with LGBT lifestyles.
" Twitter said about 75 percent of the blocked accounts this year were spotted before a single tweet was sent"
How can they tell if it's a terrorist account if it doesn't have any tweets? Can someone explain this to me please.
That's a valid argument, especially when you say 'must'. But when the market is dominated by a few players who get together with the government to enforce a blackout then that argument becomes highly dubious.