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90 days ago Milo + ISIS came up, and Twitter banned 235,000 ISIS accounts. I wrote a similar comment then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314841 https:/
by micaksica 10y ago
90 days ago Milo + ISIS came up, and Twitter banned 235,000 ISIS accounts. I wrote a similar comment then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314841
It's unfair and highly inaccurate to say that Twitter is turning a blind eye to terrorists on the platform. However, I'd be interested to know what radical leftist organizers are doing to use the Twitter platform and how many of them have ended up banned as well.
- Karunamon 10y agoHamas' official account had been around since 2010 [1]. 235k accounts is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Twitter accounts are like email addresses, cheap and disposable. It took proliferation of articles like that one (and probably more importantly, a lawsuit) for them to get off their rears and do something about it. And this is after multiple reports over months, against unambiguously hateful accounts, some of which I personally participated in. For some reason, it takes no such media shaming or legal action to ban, limit, or otherwise mess with the speech of the political right. Milo can just mention someone, someone else will say it's brigading, and off we go to the races. A celebrity can talk about getting hate tweets, and the CEO will drop what he's doing and personally reach out to them, while ISIS propaganda goes completely unchecked. Feelings are less important than terrorist propaganda, full stop, end of story. No matter what you think of the political right, this is a disgusting inversion of priorities. [1]: http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Why-are-terrorist-groups-allowed-on-Twitter-security-experts-wonder-456379 http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Why-are-terrori...