Posted on 11/28/2017 12:10:18 AM PST by ransomnote
Twitter is cracking down on hate speech and not just by looking at its own site.
In what amounts to a major shift in Twitter policy, the company announced on Friday that it will be monitoring user's behavior "on and off the platform" and will suspend a user's account if they affiliate with violent organizations, according to an update to Twitter's Help Center on Friday.
"You also may not affiliate with organizations that — whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform — use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes," the update reads.
Twitter isn't taking action immediately. Rather, it's given users until December 18, 2017 when it will then begin enforcing the rule. The month-long wait is due to regulations in the European Union that require companies to inform users of a new policy change 30 days prior to enforcement.
The Dec. 18 deadline also applies to using "hateful images or symbols" in profile images or profile headers. Twitter will also monitor for hate speech in usernames, display names, and profile bios.
This new rule closes a loophole that Twitter's critics had long pointed out: That known white supremacists and others affiliated with hate groups could still use the platform to send a sanitized version of their message and use their followers to bolster their overall profile.
Twitter Safety ✔ @TwitterSafety Replying to @TwitterSafety We’ve updated our rules around abuse and hateful conduct as well as violence and physical harm. These changes will be enforced starting December 18. Read our updated rules here: https://twitter.com/rules 8:00 AM - Nov 17, 2017
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"The updates to the rules today will be enforced starting December 18. We'll also have more details on these policies to share that day," a Twitter spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement.
These changes comes amid aggressive moves by Twitter to curb abuse and harassment on the site after more than a decade of essentially letting the abusers operate freely.
Over the last week, Twitter has taken action against the accounts of white supremacists. Twitter permanently banned Tim "Treadstone" Gionet, a prominent alt-right troll more widely known as Baked Alaska, earlier this week. It also removed the verification badges of Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of the racist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and of alt-right activist Richard Spencer.
Twitter's decision to monitor users off site sparked concern from free speech advocates such as Andrew Torba, founder of social network Gab. "This is a scary precedent to set," he wrote in an email to Mashable. "Rules like this will only force dissidents and those who are speaking truth to power to silence themselves or risk being silenced by Twitter."
AuntieFahhh called Bush 43 a Fascist.
AuntieFahhh called the police Fascists.
AuntieFahhh called FReepers Fascists.
The Left called (and still call) Reagan and Thatcher Fascists.
Nixon was called a Fascist.
Goldwater was called a Fascist.
Bunch of violent Communists seeking violent revolutionary overthrow of the government said this.
As with the Klan, Auntiefahhhhss call for beatdowns and lynchings of people and are willing to live with the possibility that some of the targets of their violence are innocent.
You can find the editorials from Feminazis expressing the same thing about tearing men down because of sexual harassment charges. Even if some innocent men get ruined, it’s “worth it”.
Virtual lynching or genuine lynching does not matter in the modern era. Doxing and other tactics lead the loonies to your door to carry out the violent attacks.
Why is this reminding me of December 6th, 1941?
I agree with her—WRT Barack. ;)
Bakers who don’t agree with your lifestyle will be fined for refusing service, but if Twitter disagrees with your lifestyle and refuses service, that’s A-okay?
Interesting. Liberals love Neo-Nazis like they love Westboro. They are a convenient club to wield against conservatives and Trump. They love to “connect the dots”.
So deleting them would hurt their cause
What they mean is, ISIS and other Islamic terrorists still okay, defenders of the Second Amendment banned. Thanks ransomnote.
“will suspend a user’s account if they affiliate with violent organizations,”
So....Twitter is going to bounce everyone affiliated with Black Lives Matter?
Twitter belongs to Twitter. It is not a public utility.
No matter how much Twitter sucks, they can set whatever rules they like for accessing it.
will suspend a user’s account if they affiliate with violent organizations
So long SEIU and Teacher Union members. Both are well documented hate and violent unions.
Soooo no Antifa on Twitter any more?
ONE REASON Twitter thinks we’re THE HATERS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/
LIBERALS WHO FAKED ‘HATE CRIMES’ FOR THE LIBERAL PRESS:
540) Black man spray painted “Go home nigger boy”, “Whites only”, a backward swastika and other slurs on his own car at Kansas State University. (Archive) 11/1/2017
(539) Black maintenance worker for a black church in Kansas City, KS spray painted racist graffiti such as “KKK” on his own church to cover up his crime of stealing money to buy crack cocaine. (Archive) 10/29/2017
(538) Black man spray painted swastikas on several Bay Area Rapid Transit System train stations. (Archive) 10/27/2017
(537) Black man spray painted a swastika on a trash cart at a residence hall at the University of Maryland. (Archive) 9/27/2017
(536) Black cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO was responsible for racist graffiti which read “Go home nigger” near the dorms of five black students. Investigators found he did it to get out of trouble relating to other misconduct at the school. (Archive) 9/25/2017
(527) Note with slurs against black people posted at St. Olaf College in Minnesota was actually posted by the black student who reported it. (Archive) 4/29/2017
(526) Antifa members posed as free speech supporters giving the Hitler salute during a rally at University of California, Berkeley. (Archive) 4/20/2017
(525) Flyer distributed to Harvard students warning them that one of their classmates had been indefinitely detained was a political stunt by various ethnic student groups. (Archive) 4/11/2017
(524) Black man set fire to, and left racist note in front of an Indian/Nepali market invoking Trump’s name and signed the letter as White America. (Archive) 4/7/2017
(523) Black Tesla employee lied about racial insults from coworkers after he was denied a promotion for posting pictures of confidential Tesla technology online. (Archive) 3/27/2017
(522) Black lawyer for the International Court of Justice accused the Hague police for racially motivated brutality. Video surveillance showed no such thing. (Archive) 3/26/2017
(521) Black teen staged hoax attack at pro-Trump rally, used picture from 2014. (Archive) 3/25/2017
(520) Black teen staged hoax attack at pro-Trump rally, used picture from 2013. (Archive) 3/25/2017
(519) Diversity Leadership Council at Adolphus College spread hateful flyers around campus, blaming white people, in an effort to spread “awareness”. (Archive) 3/24/2017
(517) Black man spray painted racist, mysogynistic and anti-gay graffiti which read “Go back to hell, black women” on several churches in Charleston, South Carolina including a library named after a woman killed by Dylann Roof. (Archive) 3/13/2017
(516) Gay man lied about being the victim of an anti-gay attack in Madison Square Garden. When police reviewed surveillance video, it showed the attack never happened. (Archive) 3/12/2017
(515) Black men spray painted KKK around Newark, New Jersey. (Archive) 3/12/2017
(514) Threatening graffiti at East Jefferson High School in Louisiana implicating white students was actually done by one Hispanic and one Indian student. (Archive) 3/10/2017
(508) Latino man from Brooklyn, New York spray painted swastikas, “KKK”, “Mexican go home” in bathrooms at Penn Station. (Archive) 3/5/2017
(507) Black Muslim who formerly worked for the Intercept called in bomb threats to Jewish centers around the country. (Archive) 3/4/2017
(506) Muslim internment-style posters found on UCSD campus were the work of an activist. (Archive) 3/1/2017
(505) Non-white developmentally disabled student drew multiple swastikas around Lakeville South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Archive) 2/28/2017
(504) Two black students spray painted racist and vulgar graffiti around Plano West Senior High School in Texas. (Archive) 2/27/2017
(503) Hate crime hoax perpetrated on Trump supporting radio host. (Archive) 2/13/2017
(502) Two brothers in Manhattan lied about being beaten by Neo-Nazis with brass knuckles. (Archive) 2/11/2017
(500) Singer Jason Derulo claimed American Airlines discriminated against him because he was black at Miami International Airport. It was instead because he tried to check 19 bags after the check-in period was closed and started an altercation over the bill. (Archive) 2/8/2017
(499) Emails which contained racist and anti-Semitic language coming from a professor at the University of Michigan were actually spoofed. (Archive) 2/8/2017
(498) Muslim American olympian claimed she was detained at the airport due to Trump’s travel ban. It was a random detention and it happened in December 2016 when Barack Obama was President. (Archive) 2/7/2017
(497) University at Buffalo student lied about being sexually assaulted. Police found the event never happened. (Archive) 2/6/2017
(496) Student at Beloit College in Wisconsin spray painted his own dorm door with racial and religious slurs. (Archive) 2/2/2
Yes. Gab is a new alternative said to have been started by a conservative. Some of the twitterites that I follow have begun to transition there because they know what’s coming re Twitter.
https://gab.ai
Lol, wow. Well if they go by that map released by the news a few months back... there are going to be alot of church members banned for anti-Islam or anti-homosexual marriage.
Bad news for antifa and blm
WHich map? I think I missed it.
Southern Poverty Law Center I believe authored it. Here is a link to it: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
They have a lot of groups on their (kkk, nazis, etc.) - but one many didn’t notice are those deemed hate groups due to opposing LGBT+ rights.
That couldn’t be more back-asswards.
PS. Perhaps the most ironic was “Legal Immigrants for America” being listed as “Anti-immigrant”. What they really mean though, is anyone who opposes illegal immigration...
Oh, I am sorry... as my professor scolded me several times years ago... I am supposed to say ‘undocumented immigration’. Guess he failed.
Thank you, from one documented American to another. :)
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