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cool now do that to the white supremacist side of twitter

• rezeroed 7y ago
  "First they came for the..."
• thosakwe 7y ago
  It pains me to think that this will probably never happen.
  • jsjddbbwj 7y ago
    Must be really painful to know your political opponents are not being oppressed. White supremacists probably even feel the same way about you!
    • thosakwe 7y ago
      White supremacy is more than mere "political opposition." Don't trivialize that.
• fennecfoxen 7y ago
  Sure. So start by going after the Nazis, then look for the Trump campaign staff, then the Covington field trip kids, then all the people who advocated for Brexit, then the Zionists, then Rush Limbaugh followers, then the screw-you-got-mine Libertarians, and finally we can get around to the mealy-mouthed "centrists" who support the establishment and vote for Joe Biden. — Okay seriously though, my real point is that if they're going draw a line somewhere and that somewhere lies in the middle of a major current event where they are getting a lot of attention as a company and people tweeting about it getting lots of attention and there is an elevated risk of death associated with it.... well, it's just understandable if they decide to draw the line there? Certainly it's much easier to enforce a filter on narrow topical grounds than an ideology-validation filter would be.
  • intopieces 7y ago
    Twitter already filters some far-right content if your location is Germany: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-germany-nazis/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-germany-nazis/ So that line has already been drawn, it seems.
  • vangelis 7y ago
    First they came for the white supremacists...
    • fennecfoxen 7y ago
      oh, no, they're still there