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Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the ctrl-alt-delete dept.

After updating the rules of its verification program on Wednesday, Twitter has begun banning and removing verified check marks from white supremacist accounts. For example, white supremacists Richard Spencer and Charlottesville "Unite The Right" protest creator Jason Kessler had their verified statuses revoked today. The Daily Beast reports: The verified check mark was meant to denote "that an account of public interest is authentic," the company said in a series of tweets on Wednesday, but that "verification has long been perceived as an endorsement." "This perception became worse when we opened up verification for public submissions and verified people who we in no way endorse," a company spokesperson tweeted. Users can now lose their blue checkmarks for "inciting or engaging in harassment of others," "promoting hate and/or violence against, or directly attacking or threatening other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease," supporting people who promote those ideas, and a slew of other reasons.

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  1. Re:The moral of the story by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the moral of the story is best summed up by XKCD

  2. Re:So, people think the check means by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Informative

    "This perception became worse when we opened up verification for public submissions and verified people who we in no way endorse"

    The verified status literally means Twitter endorses them.

    By the way, as long as we're talking about it, I ran across this story the other day that explained where Richard Spencer got his start. It was the Duke Lacrosse non-rape case that was made up and never happened. The Left literally created the alt-right movement. In 2014 Rolling Stoneâ(TM)s false rape story at UVA didn't help either.

    I can see where he would feel vindicated," K. C. Johnson said. "His basic take on the case proved to be correct, and he was right in a way that the establishment media was not. It took a lot of guts to do what he did."

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  3. Re:Verification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am with you on this, and I lived under commies... sadly they cant look in the mirror

  4. Re:Alleged white supremacists actually,... by aevan · · Score: 4, Informative

    But they DO call people 'white supremacist'..even if they aren't white, as long as they are right-wing. Alongside Nazi, Literally Hitler and so forth.

  5. Re:Alleged white supremacists actually,... by luther349 · · Score: 1, Informative

    yep protest the libtards deleting history and is nothing just pulling the race card. maybe we need to start deleting black history see how well the black people will like it.

  6. Re: Cue the Nazi snowflakes by sycodon · · Score: 1, Informative

    It does need to be pointed out that Nazis were pretty light weight when it comes to mass murder.

    You want real mass murder? Check out Stalin and Moa. Now those guys had it down.

    BTW...Communists.

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    When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
  7. Re:The moral of the story by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Leftists get a blue check mark taken away from racists. They can still tweet, just without an emoji.

    The right wing in control of all levels of our government make sure scientists can't report that climate change is happening because coal companies don't like it.

    Clearly this country is being destroyed by leftist fascists...