Twitter Has Started Its Messy ‘Purge’ Of Neo-Nazi And ‘Alt-Right’ Accounts

[frigidweirdo]

Yet Americans think they have freedom of speech.

Behold the ignorance conservative, typical of most on the right.

As likely has already been correctly pointed out, the doctrine of free speech applies solely to the relationship between government and those governed, not between or among private individuals and entities – such as Twitter.

Like any other private entity Twitter is at liberty restrict access to its site as it sees fit, given the fact it’s not subject to the doctrine of free speech.

So let's see, Twitter is at liberty to restrict access as it sees fit, but bakers should be required to bake cakes for gay couples if asked. Sure that makes sense...if you're a fricken liberal.

There's a big difference.

Twitter is blocking people based on WHAT THEY WRITE. The backers aren't preventing people who go in because of what they say, they're doing it based on HOW THEY WERE BORN.

Do you not see the difference?

What you're doing is preventing them from having their liberties...dumbass.

Insults.

Try writing without insults and I might respond.

 

[blackhawk]

Don't use twitter never have never will.

 

[Blackrook]

I have been to plenty of forums that pulled this censorship shit and it always ended badly.

 

[Thinker101]

Yet Americans think they have freedom of speech.

Behold the ignorance conservative, typical of most on the right.

As likely has already been correctly pointed out, the doctrine of free speech applies solely to the relationship between government and those governed, not between or among private individuals and entities – such as Twitter.

Like any other private entity Twitter is at liberty restrict access to its site as it sees fit, given the fact it’s not subject to the doctrine of free speech.

So let's see, Twitter is at liberty to restrict access as it sees fit, but bakers should be required to bake cakes for gay couples if asked. Sure that makes sense...if you're a fricken liberal.

There's a big difference.

Twitter is blocking people based on WHAT THEY WRITE. The backers aren't preventing people who go in because of what they say, they're doing it based on HOW THEY WERE BORN.

Do you not see the difference?

What you're doing is preventing them from having their liberties...dumbass.

Insults.

Try writing without insults and I might respond.

Tempting, but gotta pass on that one.

 

[Snouter]

Some of individuals listed are simply civil rights advocates for Whites. Jayda Fransen has a hot body!

 

[Lastamender]

In an effort to curb racist abuse and violent extremism on its site, Twitter started enforcing new rules Monday.

New rules implemented on Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.

Jayda Fransen, a leader of Britain First, a virulently anti-Muslim extremist group in the United Kingdom, got booted off the social media network Monday. Fransen gained notoriety in the United States late last month when President Donald Trump retweeted her three times.

Other accounts kicked off Twitter include those belonging to Jared Taylor, editor of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance (which also had its verified account closed); Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, of League of The South, who helped organize a recent White Lives Matter rally in Tennessee; Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; Vanguard America, the white nationalist group to which James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car through protesters in Charlottesville, belonged; Michael Hill, another leader in League of the South; the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group whose co-founder was the recent subject of a sympathetic New York Times profile; Generation Identify, a European white “identitarian” group; the American Nazi Party; the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim group; and the Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defense League, a violent far-right and pro-Israel group.

Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18, it would consider account user behavior “on and off the platform” when deciding whether to close down an account, as part of an effort to “reduce hateful and abusive content.”

More: Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts

Great news! Hopefully others will follow!

You should just say this is censorship and it makes Twitter more useless than it already is.

 

[Lakhota]

In an effort to curb racist abuse and violent extremism on its site, Twitter started enforcing new rules Monday.

New rules implemented on Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.

Jayda Fransen, a leader of Britain First, a virulently anti-Muslim extremist group in the United Kingdom, got booted off the social media network Monday. Fransen gained notoriety in the United States late last month when President Donald Trump retweeted her three times.

Other accounts kicked off Twitter include those belonging to Jared Taylor, editor of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance (which also had its verified account closed); Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, of League of The South, who helped organize a recent White Lives Matter rally in Tennessee; Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; Vanguard America, the white nationalist group to which James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car through protesters in Charlottesville, belonged; Michael Hill, another leader in League of the South; the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group whose co-founder was the recent subject of a sympathetic New York Times profile; Generation Identify, a European white “identitarian” group; the American Nazi Party; the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim group; and the Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defense League, a violent far-right and pro-Israel group.

Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18, it would consider account user behavior “on and off the platform” when deciding whether to close down an account, as part of an effort to “reduce hateful and abusive content.”

More: Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts

Great news! Hopefully others will follow!

You should just say this is censorship and it makes Twitter more useless than it already is.

Twitter has every right to remove shitstain NaziCons from its site.

 

[Lastamender]

In an effort to curb racist abuse and violent extremism on its site, Twitter started enforcing new rules Monday.

New rules implemented on Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.

Jayda Fransen, a leader of Britain First, a virulently anti-Muslim extremist group in the United Kingdom, got booted off the social media network Monday. Fransen gained notoriety in the United States late last month when President Donald Trump retweeted her three times.

Other accounts kicked off Twitter include those belonging to Jared Taylor, editor of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance (which also had its verified account closed); Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, of League of The South, who helped organize a recent White Lives Matter rally in Tennessee; Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; Vanguard America, the white nationalist group to which James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car through protesters in Charlottesville, belonged; Michael Hill, another leader in League of the South; the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group whose co-founder was the recent subject of a sympathetic New York Times profile; Generation Identify, a European white “identitarian” group; the American Nazi Party; the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim group; and the Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defense League, a violent far-right and pro-Israel group.

Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18, it would consider account user behavior “on and off the platform” when deciding whether to close down an account, as part of an effort to “reduce hateful and abusive content.”

More: Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts

Great news! Hopefully others will follow!

You should just say this is censorship and it makes Twitter more useless than it already is.

Twitter has every right to remove shitstain NaziCons from its site.

No one said they didn't. Try paying attention.

 

[Snouter]

Anyone remember Hunter Wallace aka FaDeTheBuTcHeR? He used to post on a number of discussion sites.

 

[Lakhota]

Anyone remember Hunter Wallace aka FaDeTheBuTcHeR? He used to post on a number of discussion sites.

No, Brad Griffin is too scummy for my tastes. Why would any decent person want to remember him?

 

[Snouter]

FaDeTheBuTcHeR would invade a board under several names and usually win the threads because he provided facts to support his position if I recall correctly. And I think he used to actually list in detail the ad hominems from his opponents in refuting his opposition because logical fallacy is all ya got when the facts are against you.

I actually still have Jared Taylor's books that I purchased way back in the early 1990's, Paved With Good Intentions (which just gave an overview of the failed war on poverty) and Shadows of the Rising Sun (which discussed realities of race, specifically growing up in Japan as he did).

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

 

[mudwhistle]

Cons are so protective of their nazi buddies . NAZIS !!!! How do you defend them? Oh that’s right , y’all are just as racist .

Everyone is a Nazi to you Snowflakes.

Especially the real ones.

The real ones are folks like you that believe in policing people's thoughts.

 

[TheParser]

I am an elderly computer illiterate who has never visited Facebook or Twitter.

Personally, I am disappointed that they are censoring free speech even though -- as some other posters have pointed out -- they reportedly have the right to do so. (Maybe one of the censored sources will take this matter to the Supreme Court?)

Since the Charlottesville incident, there has been more censorship than ever on the Web. (For example, the leading search engine a few months dropped an (in)famous neo-nazis website.)

Many sincere liberals (and perhaps some conservatives) believe that it is appropriate to censor "hate speech."

Of course, the problem is that everyone has an opinion as to what "hate speech" actually is.

Personally, I still believe in that old idea: You can say anything you want so long as it does NOT call for violence. (That old example: You cannot yell "Fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.)

 

[mudwhistle]

I am an elderly computer illiterate who has never visited Facebook or Twitter.

Personally, I am disappointed that they are censoring free speech even though -- as some other posters have pointed out -- they reportedly have the right to do so. (Maybe one of the censored sources will take this matter to the Supreme Court?)

Since the Charlottesville incident, there has been more censorship than ever on the Web. (For example, the leading search engine a few months dropped an (in)famous neo-nazis website.)

Many sincere liberals (and perhaps some conservatives) believe that it is appropriate to censor "hate speech."

Of course, the problem is that everyone has an opinion as to what "hate speech" actually is.

Personally, I still believe in that old idea: You can say anything you want so long as it does NOT call for violence. (That old example: You cannot yell "Fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.)

That's not what these punks believe in.
They think everyone should be forced to say the same thing or risk censorship.
So who's the Nazi???

 

[Lastamender]

I am an elderly computer illiterate who has never visited Facebook or Twitter.

Personally, I am disappointed that they are censoring free speech even though -- as some other posters have pointed out -- they reportedly have the right to do so. (Maybe one of the censored sources will take this matter to the Supreme Court?)

Since the Charlottesville incident, there has been more censorship than ever on the Web. (For example, the leading search engine a few months dropped an (in)famous neo-nazis website.)

Many sincere liberals (and perhaps some conservatives) believe that it is appropriate to censor "hate speech."

Of course, the problem is that everyone has an opinion as to what "hate speech" actually is.

Personally, I still believe in that old idea: You can say anything you want so long as it does NOT call for violence. (That old example: You cannot yell "Fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.)

That's not what these punks believe in.
They think everyone should be forced to say the same thing or risk censorship.
So who's the Nazi???

Progressives tend to project their faults on others. Any objective look at the situation you can see who the Nazis are, and it is not you.

 

[ptbw forever]

Institutional anti-white racism rears its ugly head again....

 

[LordBrownTrout]

In an effort to curb racist abuse and violent extremism on its site, Twitter started enforcing new rules Monday.

New rules implemented on Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.

Jayda Fransen, a leader of Britain First, a virulently anti-Muslim extremist group in the United Kingdom, got booted off the social media network Monday. Fransen gained notoriety in the United States late last month when President Donald Trump retweeted her three times.

Other accounts kicked off Twitter include those belonging to Jared Taylor, editor of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance (which also had its verified account closed); Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, of League of The South, who helped organize a recent White Lives Matter rally in Tennessee; Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; Vanguard America, the white nationalist group to which James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car through protesters in Charlottesville, belonged; Michael Hill, another leader in League of the South; the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group whose co-founder was the recent subject of a sympathetic New York Times profile; Generation Identify, a European white “identitarian” group; the American Nazi Party; the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim group; and the Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defense League, a violent far-right and pro-Israel group.

Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18, it would consider account user behavior “on and off the platform” when deciding whether to close down an account, as part of an effort to “reduce hateful and abusive content.”

More: Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts

Great news! Hopefully others will follow!

Of course you're against free speech. Again, its a shame the cavalry didnt finish their job at wounded knee.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

In an effort to curb racist abuse and violent extremism on its site, Twitter started enforcing new rules Monday.

New rules implemented on Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.

Jayda Fransen, a leader of Britain First, a virulently anti-Muslim extremist group in the United Kingdom, got booted off the social media network Monday. Fransen gained notoriety in the United States late last month when President Donald Trump retweeted her three times.

Other accounts kicked off Twitter include those belonging to Jared Taylor, editor of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance (which also had its verified account closed); Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, of League of The South, who helped organize a recent White Lives Matter rally in Tennessee; Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; Vanguard America, the white nationalist group to which James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car through protesters in Charlottesville, belonged; Michael Hill, another leader in League of the South; the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group whose co-founder was the recent subject of a sympathetic New York Times profile; Generation Identify, a European white “identitarian” group; the American Nazi Party; the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim group; and the Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defense League, a violent far-right and pro-Israel group.

Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18, it would consider account user behavior “on and off the platform” when deciding whether to close down an account, as part of an effort to “reduce hateful and abusive content.”

More: Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts

Great news! Hopefully others will follow!

I really hate neo-nazis, but what is the point? Why not let these asswipes spew their vile, hateful bullshit, so everyone knows who they are? Sunshine is the best disinfectant, not suppression. This doesn't even get into the problem of arbitrarily deeming opposing (non-communist) views as "hateful and abusive" and shutting down the open exchange of ideas.

Regardless, Twitter is not government. Twitter should have the right to do stupid things. Twitter should be allowed to pick and choose its users based on anything or nothing at all. I just wish they were less political and more open, trusting that the ideas-exchange market will bear out idiots and bigots.

 

[ptbw forever]

In an effort to curb racist abuse and violent extremism on its site, Twitter started enforcing new rules Monday.

New rules implemented on Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.

Jayda Fransen, a leader of Britain First, a virulently anti-Muslim extremist group in the United Kingdom, got booted off the social media network Monday. Fransen gained notoriety in the United States late last month when President Donald Trump retweeted her three times.

Other accounts kicked off Twitter include those belonging to Jared Taylor, editor of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance (which also had its verified account closed); Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, of League of The South, who helped organize a recent White Lives Matter rally in Tennessee; Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; Vanguard America, the white nationalist group to which James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car through protesters in Charlottesville, belonged; Michael Hill, another leader in League of the South; the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group whose co-founder was the recent subject of a sympathetic New York Times profile; Generation Identify, a European white “identitarian” group; the American Nazi Party; the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim group; and the Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defense League, a violent far-right and pro-Israel group.

Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18, it would consider account user behavior “on and off the platform” when deciding whether to close down an account, as part of an effort to “reduce hateful and abusive content.”

More: Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts

Great news! Hopefully others will follow!

I really hate neo-nazis, but what is the point? Why not let these asswipes spew their vile, hateful bullshit, so everyone knows who they are? Sunshine is the best disinfectant, not suppression. This doesn't even get into the problem of arbitrarily deeming opposing (non-communist) views as "hateful and abusive" and shutting down the open exchange of ideas.

Regardless, Twitter is not government. Twitter should have the right to do stupid things. Twitter should be allowed to pick and choose its users based on anything or nothing at all. I just wish they were less political and more open, trusting that the ideas-exchange market will bear out idiots and bigots.

None of the suspended accounts are Neo-Nazis...

These are the “it’s ok to be white” people who only offend the actual racists(who Twitter will never get rid of).