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We can begin here: https://tinyurl.com/y8rk9yjn https://tinyurl.com/y8rk9yjn I personally reported many accounts, including an antifa group that called for kil
by stass 8y ago
We can begin here: https://tinyurl.com/y8rk9yjn https://tinyurl.com/y8rk9yjn
I personally reported many accounts, including an antifa group that called for killing cops and white peoples to no avail. At the same time twitter bans people for sharing news about job growth. Go figure.
- rhcom2 8y agoI've never heard of any of these people, certainly none rise to the visibility of Richard Spencer or Alex Jones. Half of these are actual white people complaining about white people...
- dominotw 8y agoOnly one i recognise is saachi kaul from buzzfeed.
- tomlock 8y agoIt's possible to find literally any opinion on twitter. What's the magnitude of this problem compared to Alex Jones' active disparagement of the parents of victims of mass shootings?
- creaghpatr 8y agoHow would such magnitude even be measured? Subjectively, perhaps legally?
- eganist 8y agoIt's pretty straightforward. Twitter even offers it as a feature for your own tweets, something called Tweet Activity (the bar chart icon on every one of your own tweets). The specific stats e.g. impressions, engagements, detail expands, clicks, replies, etc. are all measured. And that's just what's exposed to us. Twitter doubtless has more than that on hand.
- tomlock 8y agoWhat percentage of the population would you estimate would view actively targeting the families of shooting victims as worse than complaining about white people? Do you feel like the accounts mentioned, ranked from most influential to least, would have Alex Jones at the very top? Legal arguments often include reference to a "reasonable person". Legal is subjective.
- grzm 8y agoPlease post links to the source material rather than using url shorteners.
- jasonlotito 8y agoNo no, you can't fake screenshots! =)
- jasonlotito 8y agoSo, I'll bite. Why does the account that tweeted "Old. White. Men." deserve to be banned based on that tweet? That's something you are saying should be banned? (Just to be clear, that's one of the 'tweets' you are linking to in that screenshot) > I personally reported many accounts, including an antifa group that called for killing cops and white peoples to no avail. Citation needed. Actually quite interested in this one. This seems like something serious. > At the same time twitter bans people for sharing news about job growth. Citation needed. Please note, I'm looking specifically for proof that someone who shared job growth information got banned specifically for sharing that job growth information. Until you provide the requested information, I'll feel comfortable in dismissing anything you say as bs.
- stass 8y agoSo the offending tweet got deleted by twitter, but the account is still up. I scrolled through the first page and they are literally calling for doxing ICE agents right there. Pasted both pics to imgur https://m.imgur.com/a/wsHPMUD https://m.imgur.com/a/wsHPMUD
- acdha 8y agoSo your complaint is that a tweet which you reported was … deleted? Twitter’s process generally sucks but that really doesn’t support the claim that there’s political discrimination going on – I’m certain that if you switched to reporting right-wing extremists, Gamergaters, etc. you’d have the same experience.
- stass 8y agoThis is just one example. My complaint is that accounts like that stay up despite numerous reports. And Alex Jones is saint compared to these guys...
- acdha 8y agoOne example which doesn’t support your claim, followed by an assertion which is similarly unsupported and far from a given based on the number of lawsuits Jones has lost or settled. You might want to go back to The_Donald. HN tends not to reward that kind of empty bombast.
- pvg 8y agoYou... want to begin at a spectacularly dumb outrage shitpost on /r/TheDonald? Nothing sensible should or can begin, end or come within 17.0381 gigaparsecs of there.
- stass 8y agoAre you saying that tweets in that picture are falsified? Or that the fact it was posted to the Donald makes it inadmissible?
- pvg 8y agoNo, I'm saying what I said - it's spectacularly dumb and it's a shitpost. The fact that it's from /r/TheDonald just rounds out that assessment, that being a place of spectacularly dumb shitposts. I don't think the tweets are falsified.
- acdha 8y agoThat’s agitprop for Trump fanatics, not a serious list. They have people making jokes or political points – i.e. they apparently seriously think Mike Monteiro’s anti-fascist position is about killing white people! — but there’s nobody on the publicity level of Alex Jones and there certainly aren’t any serious threats which violate Twitter’s terms of service. In contrast, Alex Jones made specific accusations about specific named people who were already dealing with harassment. The Pizzagate people had a potential mass shooting on their hands. The Sandy Hook parents, Brennan Gilmore, etc. all had credible claims for libel and concerns that his incitement would spur more dangerous activities. When Twitter suspended him for a week it was after a literal call to arms telling people “Now is time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag”. As for your claim that Twitter is banning anyone for sharing job growth, you really need to cite credible sources for anyone to believe you. The conservative movement loves to loudly proclaim their victim status but the conspiracy theories inevitably turns out to be either misunderstanding how the services work or expecting special treatment.