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Twitter Bans 270,000 Accounts For 'Promoting Terrorism' (theguardian.com)
According to Twitter's latest transparency report, the social media company removed more than 270,000 accounts around the world for promoting terrorism in the second half of 2017. The number of accounts permanently suspended for sharing what the firm called extremist content between July and December represents a drop for the second period in a row. The Guardian reports: The social network puts this down to "years of hard work making our site an undesirable place for those seeking to promote terrorism." Nick Pickles, Twitter UK's head of public policy, said: "The overwhelming majority of these accounts were detected by our own technology, with just 0.2% of the accounts we suspended in 2017 being flagged by the police." Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet, according to the report, and 93% were discovered by tools that Twitter engineers had built. Twitter is understood to also use a combination of US and EU lists of terrorist organizations as well as research from academics and experts to identify terrorists on its network. The number of reports of abusive behavior submitted by government representatives also dropped amid a marked change in the type of abusive behavior reported. Two-thirds of the 10,000 reports concerned violated rules over impersonation, with only 16% of the reports for harassment and 12% for hateful conduct. Harassment and hateful conduct each accounted for a third of reported accounts in the first half of 2017. Only a quarter of reports of abusive behavior submitted by government representatives were acted upon by Twitter, compared with 98% of reports relating to the "promotion of terrorism."
Is this effective, or is it a useless game of whack-a-mole?
Promoting terrorism, aka being politically right of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
Twitter is full of hypocrisy. The CEO Deserves a good public humiliation.
I still honestly do not understand twitter and why anyone cares. I was on the internet long before it it existed.
People who use or read twitter are "twits".
Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet
How can an account be banned for promoting anything before speaking publicly?
whatever diversity you got
The biggest supporter of terrorism in the last decade was that guy who sent 400 million dollars in unmarked, untraceable cash on a secret plane directly to terrorists without telling Congress or anybody else. Surely Twitter will come down hard on such a terror-enabling criminal.
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The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
They were registered in the domains...
@gop.com
@rnc.com
and
@maga.com
No need to wait for anything before Twitter decided it was terrorism. I wonder if they accidentally deleted any accounts belonging to vegans, they may want to increase security if they did.
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Is it Ok to hate certain white hood-wearers? How about those with red stars and hammer-and-sickle?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
WTF, whispered the Donald
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Which is scary. Who thinks the Twits In Charge (TIC) have suddenly identified a few hundred thousand accounts in the week or so since Facebook had their business model thrown in their face?
No, the twits came up with a list of bad words and bad origins and made 2 teams, where each got really good with perl and Regexps shooting at different goals.
Twitter banned people for all kinds of stupid shit, but promoting terrorism always seemed ok to them. I always thought those terror accounts were CIA fronts or something because why else where they allowed to stay up for years promoting ISIS?
As long as it's not illegal discrimination based on age, race, religion, gender, disability, medial condition, or sexual orientation Twitter can arbitrarily decide to or not to do business with anyone they want.
would be a good start. Following pro terrorist accounts exclusively. In otherwords, shill accounts designed to raise the visibility of the accounts that post.
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...Google AdWords started a special advertising offer, promoting a new advertising model aimed at terrorist groups who need to promote their activities. Special discounted monthly plans are offered to islamic groups that have been unduly pulled out of mainstream platforms.
That trumps account was deleted?
Nowadays, terrorism is indistinguishable from journalism and political activism under the eyes of the deep state and its agencies. What they're actually doing is implementing an Orwellian censorship programme on a massive scale.
washingtonpost is fake news. don't use them as a source if you want to be taken seriously.
Have they banned Trump's account for inciting violence yet?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Remember how like a month ago the rebels were all grassroots activists, rescue workers and administrative structures?
Or were they 20,000 jihadi retaining thousands of prisoners and over 100,000 more hostages, shot when they were trying to leave.
Promoting "rebels" went quite far in the mainstream media (even and especially in France, which stopped being "antiwar" a decade ago if not more). They called for war against the Syrian government to help the rebels too.
So, should western mainstream media be banned? And plenty of non-Trump politician as well.
And yet Donald fucking Drumpf still has an account.
MASSIVE fail, Twitter. Ban the one that encourages more terrorism than any of them. Ban Drumpf.
That's a bunch of bunk. Obama did NOT start the civil wars, and they raged on with and without dictator removal. Keeping (Syria) versus removing original dictator (Libya) made no difference: both countries went to shit. If the Middle East civil wars had any single cause, it was the harsh economic crash that began under W's watch.
Get a better news channel, please.
Table-ized A.I.
The government and the powers that be - entities and industries like the entertainment industry have setup censorship filters at ISPs and now these filters are being extended to the platforms most of us utilize to communicate. When governments are permitted to create 'lists' it sets a dangerous precedent and we end up with people being unable to speak out. We've seen how poor these lists are with even babies incapable of communicating being put on terrorist watch lists. When your ability to communicate starts to be cut off you won't even know if its intentional or an accident because there are no means of REASONABLE appeal and there are so frequently mistakes in these lists.
Hitler used census data to create lists of people and so did the US. The US interned the Japanese. We need to put an end to the censorship. It's just wrong.