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Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com)
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.
No, the moral of the story is best summed up by XKCD
I am with you on this, and I lived under commies... sadly they cant look in the mirror
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.
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...