I touched Twitter's liberal third rail

Flopping Aces ^ | 02-23-19 | DrJohn

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Prophetic words were written about Twitter ten years ago.

“Twitter will be the indicator that it was the Beginning of the End of Civilization. It won’t be Global Warming… It will be Twitter…”- David Letterman

Twitter is a disaster. The bias is suffocating.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ariana Rowlands, a 20-year-old college student from Southern California, is half Mexican and half Welsh, a child of immigrants raised on telenovelas and burritos. She's also a fervent conservative who regularly airs her political views on Twitter.

"So proud of my Hispanic Heritage and so proud to support @realDonaldTrump for President!!" she tweeted in September under a hashtag celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Soon after, she began receiving personal attacks and death threats, she says.

Rowlands reported the abuse but she says Twitter did nothing. And, she says, it wasn't the first time Twitter ignored concerns for her safety that she and her Twitter followers expressed and even reported to police.

"I want to stress that it's not like we're crying victim or anything like that," Rowlands said in an interview. "It's just that we're pointing out the double standard."

Double standard indeed.

In July when Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones was subjected to racist and sexist taunts led by Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey intervened and yanked Yiannopoulos from the service.

Yet, conservatives say, nothing happened to rapper Talib Kweli and his followers when they attacked black Breitbart reporter Jerome Hudson with racial slurs. When Breitbart contributor  Kassy Dillon complained about a Twitter user who sent her harassing tweets and messages, Twitter made the perpetrator delete one tweet that suggested someone shoot Dillon in the head.

Twitter refused to comment directly on the allegation that it ignores abuse hurled at conservatives. "The Twitter rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies," the company said in an emailed statement.

That depends on who you comment about. I got myself suspended for making a comment about an ISIS bride desiring to return to the US after leaving for Syria several years ago. IMO they deserve no sympathy or support here or in the UK. They can be expected to raise their children to carry the same hatred of America and freedom that they do and their deceased husbands did.

Well, that was simply not acceptable. Had I targeted a Jew that would have been fine.

The FBI has been the worst enemy of Black advancement. The Jews have control over those agencies of government. #Farrakhan pic.twitter.com/DXKCRr1zpo

— MINISTER FARRAKHAN (@LouisFarrakhan) March 7, 2018

Some people are allowed to say whatever they want about Jews.

“Louis Farrakhan is a noted anti-Semite,” wrote Erick Erickson on his blog, The Resurgent.“He is no fan of white people or Jews, and his racist rhetoric is as awful as many of the white supremacists whose blue checkmarks Twitter has revoked. So why does Twitter treat Farrakhan differently from the other racists and anti-Semites? Are they willing to endorse his conspiracies against Jews, etc.?”

It's open season all the time

Just in from a @Twitter spokesperson: Louis Farrakhan’s tweet comparing Jews to termites is not in violation of the company’s policies. The policy on dehumanizing language has not yet been implemented. So if you want to compare Jews to rats/insects – get it in while you can!

— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) October 17, 2018

This is from Redstate

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Twitter is good for it truly exposes the media for what they are.

I was recently banned from Twitter for “harassment” for calling Buzz Feed fake news (along with CNN, etc. numerous times) and #learntocode. But nothing worse than this.

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[caww]

....”especially the celeb element”.....

Without twitter they’d never be heard.

[caww]

....”especially the celeb element”.....

Without twitter they’d never be heard.