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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."
Promoting terrorism, aka being politically right of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
And are all of the accounts actually promoting terrorism, or just shit that Twitter disagrees with?
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
Ok. That's not fair. Trump definitely isn't a terrorist.
That requires planning skiils.
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?
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Ok. That's not fair. Trump definitely isn't a terrorist.
That requires planning skiils.
He he it's so cool to hate on Trump without stating any actual problem you have with him. Wow you're so fashionable!
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.
Even if he had them, Twitter wouldn't get rid of him anyway. He's probably responsible for at least a double digit percentage of their traffic. They couldn't quit each other if they wanted to.
And are all of the accounts actually promoting terrorism, or just shit that Twitter disagrees with?
From TFS:Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet
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?
He he it's so rebellious being a Trump sheep! Strong conservative values like porn stars, deficits, lies and corruption! Financial dependency on the elites! Tax cuts for the rich! Military marches! Super PAC kickbacks! Wow you're so cool! Bah bah.
Effective at the stated goal, or the real one?
Former: who cares
Latter: Advertising partners confirm their benefactors have been mildly placated
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.
From TFS:Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet
How can the account be guilty of promoting terrorism without having sent any tweets? Was this just going off them "liking" other tweets, from accounts that were shut down for actual infractions, or was any account named "DownWithAmerica" targeted?
Errorist.
Table-ized A.I.
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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Now that that's out of the way. It has been proven that Facebook, Twitter, and several other social media companies have been censoring Conservative opinions, regardless if you believe it or not. Its a proven fact and there are a few lawsuits pending over it. As a long term Slashdot follower and article contributor way back when, i have seen my comments constantly modded down simply because i dont follow the lefts agenda.
Again mod me down or delete my comment as normal, you know who you are as do I.
It used to be that you could post an opinion as a conservative on slashdot and other social media and have a respectable conversation on whatever subject. Now however i get a accused of being a racist, homophobic even though I've had gay roommates in the past yet im straight, anti science amd technology even though i grew up in the tech industry, i don't believe in the flat earth or the earth is 6000 years old and my favorite I'm anti climate change even though the earth has been in a constant state of change for the last 4.5 million years. I dont however believe in man made global warming and will continue to believe so until climate scientists release the real true unmodified data going back 50 plus years straight from the devices with zero and i mean zero uneditted or adjusted data. Of course good luck acquiring such data because ive been told repeatedly that the orignal data is no longer availble, i tried to get it.
Personal Attacks and anti free speach against conservatives is real and on going problem even though the USA is supposed to be tolerant country and the left keeps claiming they accept everyone which is BS.
Go back to your amazing utopia now where people dont question your logic or data.
Ok. That's not fair. Trump definitely isn't a terrorist.
That requires planning skiils.
Well that's quite true. The Obama presidency proved that you don't need planning skills to be a terrorist. He did a pretty good job of killing leaders of other nations with no clue on what to do after, or destabilize an entire area of the world to the point that millions try fleeing to Europe and cause mass destabilization of a second area of the world.
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It's useful to make twitter free of terrorism posts, but not very good for actual combat on terrorism, as they will just move to somewhere else.
What should happen is twitter giving the police a list of those things, and then the police acting like people looking to join, then arresting the fuck out of the terrorists as soon some sort of real meeting is made.
That meme of "all kids on the internet are FBI agents" should pretty much be real.
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.
It's only a constitutional issue if the government censors viewpoints. Private companies have every right to not give you a forum for your assinine ideas!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
New evidence indicates the Pulse Nightclub shooting was planned out about as well as one of Spanky's executive orders. So no, terrorism doesn't require good planning. Recently, a white supremacist in Wisconsin blew himself up, so terrorism doesn't even require intelligence above the level of a moron. Even Spanky could qualify.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I stupidly signed up for Twitter once.
My very first post was a response to some Leftist.
Twitter immediately suspended the account and wanted me to provide an ID, Phone number, etc. because the post was, "suspicious".
So, ya. They believe terrorists are anyone who disagrees with the Left.
Fuck'm
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
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.
In other words they were bots used to increase the follower count of other accounts, and amplify them with likes.
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