Twitter Makes ‘Great Purge’ of Alt-Right Accounts

[Stiff]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

The thing is, they didn't ban them for having "conservative viewpoints". Twitter has had a strong policy against what could be considered hate speech for a while (as well as harrassment and cyber bullying). The people they banned were propagators of that. The bannings were simply an enforcement of their stated policy that probably only took this long because of the political implications.

I'm sure stating your political views is fine for Twitter but alot of these alt-right figures are very antagonistic, specifically towards Jews, muslims, Black people, and hispanics

 

[mryounggun]

'Ban bet' over what, B?

Don't answer that. Fuck outta here.

You having doubts? I can learn you you know

The fact that you don't really understand what just happened during this exchange between you and I lets me know you're ill-equipped to be talking to me about this. Like I said man, just sit this one out. You're playing yourself.

 

[mryounggun]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

The thing is, they didn't ban them for having "conservative viewpoints". Twitter has had a strong policy against what could be considered hate speech for a while (as well as harrassment and cyber bullying). The people they banned were propagators of that. The bannings were simply an enforcement of their stated policy that probably only took this long because of the political implications.

I'm sure stating your political views is fine for Twitter but alot of these alt-right figures are very antagonistic, specifically towards Jews, muslims, Black people, and hispanics

And I would agree if they decided to enforce that across the board. It would still be problematic, but at least they would be consistent. They aren't. I can go on Twitter RIGHT NOW and pull up hundreds of accounts that consistently spew rhetoric that can't be considered anything other than hate speech.

That's what I'm saying.

 

[manofmorehouse]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

Again, it's a private company. There are other social media sites where u can express yourself, some that are even geared to that specific audience. Social media is not something that's mandatory for u to be a part of. I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. Before u sign up for an account, there are terms of agreements u have to sign. What's the problem??

 

[mryounggun]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

Again, it's a private company. There are other social media sites where u can express yourself, some that are even geared to that specific audience. Social media is not something that's mandatory for u to be a part of. I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. Before u sign up for an account, there are terms of agreements u have to sign. What's the problem??

I dunno why people keep mentioning this. At no point did I say that they, as a private company, didn't have the RIGHT to do this. I mentioned that it sets a dangerous precedent. So what exactly are we talking about here?

 

[manofmorehouse]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

Again, it's a private company. There are other social media sites where u can express yourself, some that are even geared to that specific audience. Social media is not something that's mandatory for u to be a part of. I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. Before u sign up for an account, there are terms of agreements u have to sign. What's the problem??

I dunno why people keep mentioning this. At no point did I say that they, as a private company, didn't have the RIGHT to do this. I mentioned that it sets a dangerous precedent. So what exactly are we talking about here?

Well that is the point. No precedent is being set. Private companies have been doing shit their way and making their rules since forever. Again, I could understand the issue if this was the only form of social media. But it's not

 

[mryounggun]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

Again, it's a private company. There are other social media sites where u can express yourself, some that are even geared to that specific audience. Social media is not something that's mandatory for u to be a part of. I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. Before u sign up for an account, there are terms of agreements u have to sign. What's the problem??

I dunno why people keep mentioning this. At no point did I say that they, as a private company, didn't have the RIGHT to do this. I mentioned that it sets a dangerous precedent. So what exactly are we talking about here?

Well that is the point. No precedent is being set. Private companies have been doing shit their way and making their rules since forever. Again, I could understand the issue if this was the only form of social media. But it's not

No, that's YOUR point. My point is that it's a dangerous to try to stifle certain political and social rhetoric, unless you're gonna stifle ALL similar rhetoric. No more, no less.

 

[Stiff]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

The thing is, they didn't ban them for having "conservative viewpoints". Twitter has had a strong policy against what could be considered hate speech for a while (as well as harrassment and cyber bullying). The people they banned were propagators of that. The bannings were simply an enforcement of their stated policy that probably only took this long because of the political implications.

I'm sure stating your political views is fine for Twitter but alot of these alt-right figures are very antagonistic, specifically towards Jews, muslims, Black people, and hispanics

And I would agree if they decided to enforce that across the board. It would still be problematic, but at least they would be consistent. They aren't. I can go on Twitter RIGHT NOW and pull up hundreds of accounts that consistently spew rhetoric that can't be considered anything other than hate speech.

That's what I'm saying.

Right because they can't police all of the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. I bet you I could pull up hundreds of alt-right users spewing hate speech that are still active. They decided to get some of the high profile accounts that get the most retweets.

Unless your argument is "if they can't eliminate ALL hate speech, then they should leave it all"

 

[mc317]

Alt-Fuckboi

 

[mryounggun]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

The thing is, they didn't ban them for having "conservative viewpoints". Twitter has had a strong policy against what could be considered hate speech for a while (as well as harrassment and cyber bullying). The people they banned were propagators of that. The bannings were simply an enforcement of their stated policy that probably only took this long because of the political implications.

I'm sure stating your political views is fine for Twitter but alot of these alt-right figures are very antagonistic, specifically towards Jews, muslims, Black people, and hispanics

And I would agree if they decided to enforce that across the board. It would still be problematic, but at least they would be consistent. They aren't. I can go on Twitter RIGHT NOW and pull up hundreds of accounts that consistently spew rhetoric that can't be considered anything other than hate speech.

That's what I'm saying.

Right because they can't police all of the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. I bet you I could pull up hundreds of alt-right users spewing hate speech that are still active. They decided to get some of the high profile accounts that get the most retweets.

Unless your argument is "if they can't eliminate ALL hate speech, then they should leave it all"

Without going into too much detail, I'll say this:

I work for the premier tech company in the world and I can tell you with 100% certainty that Twitter CAN police the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. Don't underestimate the reach of technology, fam.

 

[StillFaggyAF]

'Ban bet' over what, B?

Don't answer that. Fuck outta here.

You having doubts? I can learn you you know

The fact that you don't really understand what just happened during this exchange between you and I lets me know you're ill-equipped to be talking to me about this. Like I said man, just sit this one out. You're playing yourself.

I'm willing to teach but you niggrums want to stay dumb and blind. So it go

 

[mryounggun]

'Ban bet' over what, B?

Don't answer that. Fuck outta here.

You having doubts? I can learn you you know

The fact that you don't really understand what just happened during this exchange between you and I lets me know you're ill-equipped to be talking to me about this. Like I said man, just sit this one out. You're playing yourself.

I'm willing to teach but you niggrums want to stay dumb and blind. So it go

Aaaaaaahahahahaha.

This entire exchange was worth it just for your use of 'niggrums'. Adding that to my repertoire. Good looking out.

 

[Stiff]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

The thing is, they didn't ban them for having "conservative viewpoints". Twitter has had a strong policy against what could be considered hate speech for a while (as well as harrassment and cyber bullying). The people they banned were propagators of that. The bannings were simply an enforcement of their stated policy that probably only took this long because of the political implications.

I'm sure stating your political views is fine for Twitter but alot of these alt-right figures are very antagonistic, specifically towards Jews, muslims, Black people, and hispanics

And I would agree if they decided to enforce that across the board. It would still be problematic, but at least they would be consistent. They aren't. I can go on Twitter RIGHT NOW and pull up hundreds of accounts that consistently spew rhetoric that can't be considered anything other than hate speech.

That's what I'm saying.

Right because they can't police all of the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. I bet you I could pull up hundreds of alt-right users spewing hate speech that are still active. They decided to get some of the high profile accounts that get the most retweets.

Unless your argument is "if they can't eliminate ALL hate speech, then they should leave it all"

Without going into too much detail, I'll say this:

I work for the premier tech company in the world and I can tell you with 100% certainty that Twitter CAN police the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. Don't underestimate the reach of technology, fam.

Fair enough..well can you point to some "alt-left" figures that have a comparable following and level of hate speech to these alt-right figures have been deleted, that are having a blind eye turned towards them?

 

[ThaNubianGod]

Alt-Right is a made up term to create a new boogeyman. Anyone co-signing censorship better realize this means if you're not pro-gay, pro-Islam, pro-whitefemisim, then you're on the list too.

 

[mryounggun]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

The thing is, they didn't ban them for having "conservative viewpoints". Twitter has had a strong policy against what could be considered hate speech for a while (as well as harrassment and cyber bullying). The people they banned were propagators of that. The bannings were simply an enforcement of their stated policy that probably only took this long because of the political implications.

I'm sure stating your political views is fine for Twitter but alot of these alt-right figures are very antagonistic, specifically towards Jews, muslims, Black people, and hispanics

And I would agree if they decided to enforce that across the board. It would still be problematic, but at least they would be consistent. They aren't. I can go on Twitter RIGHT NOW and pull up hundreds of accounts that consistently spew rhetoric that can't be considered anything other than hate speech.

That's what I'm saying.

Right because they can't police all of the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. I bet you I could pull up hundreds of alt-right users spewing hate speech that are still active. They decided to get some of the high profile accounts that get the most retweets.

Unless your argument is "if they can't eliminate ALL hate speech, then they should leave it all"

Without going into too much detail, I'll say this:

I work for the premier tech company in the world and I can tell you with 100% certainty that Twitter CAN police the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. Don't underestimate the reach of technology, fam.

Fair enough..well can you point to some "alt-left" figures that have a comparable following and level of hate speech to these alt-right figures have been deleted, that are having a blind eye turned towards them?

I say this with as much as respect as possible: You're smarter than that, B. I've seen your posts before.

So before we go any further, I need to know the following...

1. There is no such thing as 'alt-left', as far as I know. I thought I made that clear in one of my earlier posts. I was using that as an example based on the rhetoric used by the alt-right. We can pretty easily look at the political social stances of the alt-right and use the OPPOSITE stances to represent what would be spewed by the 'alt-right', if it existed. Is that what you mean?

2. Are you saying that the suspension of accounts who spew hate speech is or should be related to how big their online 'following' is?

 

[5th Letter]

As far as I know and correct me if I'm wrong but if twitter is banning your account then it probably means that you've accumulated a ton of complaints, and once the people at twitter check out your tweets they may deem them a violation of their terms and conditions. Twitter isn't going to go around reading everybody's tweets and banning people left and right for any small infraction. But like I said I may be wrong.

 

[mryounggun]

As far as I know and correct me if I'm wrong but if twitter is banning your account then it probably means that you've accumulated a ton of complaints, and once the people at twitter check out your tweets they may deem them a violation of their terms and conditions. Twitter isn't going to go around reading everybody's tweets and banning people left and right for any small infraction. But like I said I may be wrong.

Yep, you're wrong. It's definitely possible to have an account suspended based on complaints. But Twitter uses technology that searches each and every tweet for certain words, phrases, etc, that have been classified as hate speech. No complaints at all need to be made. That's how you see some of these regular as people with 27 followers having their account suspended for talking slick about whatever the fuck. If that makes any sense.

And that's the OUTDATED technology. There is more advanced shit that will catch pretty much ANY sort of hate speech you post, not matter how much you try to disguise it. I don't really know the details of that though.

 

[5th Letter]

As far as I know and correct me if I'm wrong but if twitter is banning your account then it probably means that you've accumulated a ton of complaints, and once the people at twitter check out your tweets they may deem them a violation of their terms and conditions. Twitter isn't going to go around reading everybody's tweets and banning people left and right for any small infraction. But like I said I may be wrong.

Yep, you're wrong. It's definitely possible to have an account suspended based on complaints. But Twitter uses technology that searches each and every tweet for certain words, phrases, etc, that have been classified as hate speech. No complaints at all need to be made. That's how you see some of these regular as people with 27 followers having their account suspended for talking slick about whatever the fuck. If that makes any sense.

And that's the OUTDATED technology. There is more advanced shit that will catch pretty much ANY sort of hate speech you post, not matter how much you try to disguise it. I don't really know the details of that though.

Makes sense. But I do believe they suspend or ban accounts based on complaints. I'm sure if they really want to crack down on hate speech then they could use the technology to comb through every account but I don't think they care enough to do so.

 

[Stiff]

Them alt-right people is some fuck niggas. But this is a dangerous precedent.

How so? It's not as though it was the state that made this decision. It was a private company.

Understood. But it's not just a 'private company'. It's a company that deals in the most powerful communication medium the world has ever seen - social media. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a social media company saying basically, 'We disagree with your political and social stances, therefore you are not welcome here.'. Imagine if they suspended the accounts of alt LEFT figures. Imagine having your account suspended for being pro-life and being a spokesman for late-term abortions or the abolition of the 2nd amendment. A third of the posters on the IC would have their shit suspended, because a third of the posters here feel like 'Fuck white people, they can all go choke on a bag of dicks. Black EVERYTHING! Fuck whoever ain't us!'.

When get to the point of making threats and shit like that, I can see having your shit suspended. But when you're out here just speaking about whatever ideology you believe in? Naw, fam. That shit is dangerous. This ain't communist Russia. This ain't N. Korea.

Disagree? Explain to me why. I could be convinced otherwise but I just don't see it.

The thing is, they didn't ban them for having "conservative viewpoints". Twitter has had a strong policy against what could be considered hate speech for a while (as well as harrassment and cyber bullying). The people they banned were propagators of that. The bannings were simply an enforcement of their stated policy that probably only took this long because of the political implications.

I'm sure stating your political views is fine for Twitter but alot of these alt-right figures are very antagonistic, specifically towards Jews, muslims, Black people, and hispanics

And I would agree if they decided to enforce that across the board. It would still be problematic, but at least they would be consistent. They aren't. I can go on Twitter RIGHT NOW and pull up hundreds of accounts that consistently spew rhetoric that can't be considered anything other than hate speech.

That's what I'm saying.

Right because they can't police all of the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. I bet you I could pull up hundreds of alt-right users spewing hate speech that are still active. They decided to get some of the high profile accounts that get the most retweets.

Unless your argument is "if they can't eliminate ALL hate speech, then they should leave it all"

Without going into too much detail, I'll say this:

I work for the premier tech company in the world and I can tell you with 100% certainty that Twitter CAN police the millions of tweets that are sent every minute. Don't underestimate the reach of technology, fam.

Fair enough..well can you point to some "alt-left" figures that have a comparable following and level of hate speech to these alt-right figures have been deleted, that are having a blind eye turned towards them?

I say this with as much as respect as possible: You're smarter than that, B. I've seen your posts before.

So before we go any further, I need to know the following...

1. There is no such thing as 'alt-left', as far as I know. I thought I made that clear in one of my earlier posts. I was using that as an example based on the rhetoric used by the alt-right. We can pretty easily look at the political social stances of the alt-right and use the OPPOSITE stances to represent what would be spewed by the 'alt-right', if it existed. Is that what you mean?

2. Are you saying that the suspension of accounts who spew hate speech is or should be related to how big their online 'following' is?

1. Yeah there's no "alt-left", I was going along with the term that you invented lol. My point was can you point at comparable figures on the fringe left have similar levels of hate speech that have not been deleted to support your claim of bias?

2. Yes, to an extent. Because (and you're a tech guy and I'm not so I'm most likely ignorant to the whole process) I would expect there to be some kind of manual review process before just banning accounts like that, and I assume that would take considerable manpower to monitor all of the online traffic on twitter. I know they can flag certain words and maybe even have software that can pick up nuanced things such as context but I would think they would have to have actual humans involved in the process somewhere before they pull the plug on accounts.

With that being the case, I can see them placing some level of priority on higher profile propagators of hate speech.

 

[blackrain]

Alt-Right is a made up term to create a new boogeyman. Anyone co-signing censorship better realize this means if you're not pro-gay, pro-Islam, pro-whitefemisim, then you're on the list too.

No that's not what it means. It's those Breitbart types who are openly racist sexist xenophobic etc. You can not be for something while also not actively shitting on those who are