Posted on 07/22/2020 5:36:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
Twitter Statement Below
We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called ‘QAnon’ activity across the service. We will permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension — something we’ve seen more of in recent weeks.
In addition, we will:
No longer serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in Trends and recommendations
Work to ensure we’re not highlighting this activity in search and conversations
Block URLs associated with QAnon from being shared on Twitter
These actions will be rolled out comprehensively this week. We will continue to review this activity across our service and update our rules and enforcement approach again if necessary. As we work at scale to protect the public conversation in the face of evolving threats, we’ll continue to lead with transparency.
NBC News reported the company has removed more than 7,000 accounts associated with the conspiracy theories. The changes will also impact some 150,000 more accounts because Twitter will stop recommending QAnon-affiliated accounts and will limit content circulation.
Joined Parler last week. QANON is such a very powerful patriotic force, it must be stomped out!
We've been hearing that noise for a couple years. There won't be indictments.. at least not of anyone of consequence.
BCP (black conservative patriot) on his youtube channel had a headline up that said they were working through plea deals at present.
I didn’t watch that far. He spent too much time talking about fake polls, and I lost interest.
I never liked QANON, but banning them from twitter is stupid.
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I am with you on never really getting on board with Q’anon. Too cryptic for me, in the limited amounts I’ve seen. But this action by twitter is more than just stupid, it is tantamount to targeted political censorship.
When censorship by private entities amounts to is targeting political speech, then I believe that at the very least it is a form of discrimination. The First amendment doesn’t strongly come in to play because it’s not the government doing the censorship, but if it can be shown that the censorship is systematic and meant to help a party or a politician, then I think a case can be made.
Already done. Or announced anyway. Facebook plans action in a month, according to another thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3867274/posts
And for once, I can actually believe the new york slimes...
How does someone writing nonsense verses get banned? Maybe there is something to this.
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As the saying goes, you know you are over your target when you start drawing flak.
How about we the people ban Twitter?!
Welcome to the party pal.
Dang, there goes the next messianic mystery religion, smothered in the crib before the miracles could be documented!
Q is silly, but it’s silly to ban it, also. Ridiculous that they would allow overtly anti-social and violent Leftist rhetoric, but disallow Q.
“If it weren’t for double standards...”
I believe the reason you see Qanon being censored, is not necessarily because the main mystery poster has inside information or does not have inside information.
The reason for the push is because Qanon has gotten a whole boat load of people digging for information. The more the everyday persons are digging for the truth the better. They need the sheeple to stay asleep, and Qanon has gotten many to wake up.
Again, not sure it even matters if Q is a larp. The bi-product, is legions of people digging for the truth, usually digging into those leaders who wish to rule over us.
Hard to call that a bad thing....
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