Alt-right accounts banned but some hate group leaders remain
Nov 27, 2016 12:27:56 GMT
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Post by ck4829 on Nov 27, 2016 12:27:56 GMT
Amidst continuing outrage over a lack of content-policing on its platform, Twitter on Tuesday announced new steps to take on hate and bigotry online.
The social media giant released a set of tools that allow users to silo and mute unwanted content. It also announced a strengthening of its enforcement of a longstanding ban on targeted hate and, it appears, shifted from a policy of banning users only for conduct violations to one that includes content violations.
Within 24 hours, Twitter banned several accounts, including that of white nationalist Richard Spencer, his think tank, the National Policy Institute, and his online magazine, Radix Journal. Alt-right activists Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn and John Rivers were also banned.
The alt-right erupted in outrage. In a YouTube video titled “The Knight (sic) Of Long Knives,” Spencer said, "I am alive physically but digitally speaking there has been execution squads across the alt right." Jared Taylor also released a statement, calling the banning of white nationalist accounts “suppression of certain political views.”
A stable of hate groups and their leaders remain on Twitter. They include former Ku Klux Klan leaders, the American Nazi Party and many rogue, alt-right accounts that are responsible for much the most racist and anti-Semitic content on the platform.
www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/twitter-bans-prominent-alt-right-accounts-other-hate-group-leaders-remain
The social media giant released a set of tools that allow users to silo and mute unwanted content. It also announced a strengthening of its enforcement of a longstanding ban on targeted hate and, it appears, shifted from a policy of banning users only for conduct violations to one that includes content violations.
Within 24 hours, Twitter banned several accounts, including that of white nationalist Richard Spencer, his think tank, the National Policy Institute, and his online magazine, Radix Journal. Alt-right activists Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn and John Rivers were also banned.
The alt-right erupted in outrage. In a YouTube video titled “The Knight (sic) Of Long Knives,” Spencer said, "I am alive physically but digitally speaking there has been execution squads across the alt right." Jared Taylor also released a statement, calling the banning of white nationalist accounts “suppression of certain political views.”
A stable of hate groups and their leaders remain on Twitter. They include former Ku Klux Klan leaders, the American Nazi Party and many rogue, alt-right accounts that are responsible for much the most racist and anti-Semitic content on the platform.
www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/twitter-bans-prominent-alt-right-accounts-other-hate-group-leaders-remain
