Twitter suspends 'alt-right' Donald Trump backers



Twitter has suspended the accounts of several "alt-right" figures who championed Donald Trump's bid for the White House.

Richard Spencer, director of a white nationalist think tank, accused the social media site of "corporate Stalinism" after his personal account was terminated, along with those associated with his magazine and organisation.

Also banned was Pax Dickinson, founder of "alt-right" site Wesearchr, and blogger Paul Town, who describes himself as "the leading thought leader of alt-right".

The move comes a day after Twitter announced it would expand its "mute" option in a bid to combat cyberbullying.

In a video posted on YouTube, Mr Spencer said: "I am alive physically but digitally speaking there has been execution squads across the alt-right.

"Basically, my entire digital presence on Twitter has been suspended."



Mr Spencer compared the crackdown to Adolf Hitler wiping out opposition to the Nazi Party during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.

He added: "I think Twitter, Facebook and others are deeply triggered by this election and that social media helped elect Trump."

Prior to the crackdown, a non-profit organisation asked Twitter to remove more than 100 accounts of white supremacists, USA Today reports.

A Twitter spokesperson said the site's policies prohibit "violent threats, harassment and hateful content".

Announcing upgrades to its "mute" feature on Tuesday, the site said: "We don't expect these announcements to suddenly remove abusive conduct from Twitter.

"Instead we commit to rapidly improving Twitter based on everything we observe and learn."

The updates come after a series of complaints of abuse on the social network.

In July, Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones briefly quit Twitter after what she said was a stream of abuse fuelled by comments from Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at the conservative news site Breitbart.



Mr Yiannopoulos was subsequently banned from Twitter permanently.

http://news.sky.com/story/twitter-suspends-alt-right-donald-trump-backers-10659876/

In The Friends of Voltaire, Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote the phrase:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

 (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) Hall's quotation is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech.






 Either it exists for everyone or it doesn't exist at all.

Rights don't apply to private enterprise services.

Agreed. If one wants to speak online without any restrictions, then one can create one's own website for doing so.

It's a great move from Twitter. I hope ALL the Dinosaur Media keeps doing what it's doing. They've lost all credibility and it's in its last throws. They're only confirming what we've known about it for a long long time now. Anyone who still gives importance to them is as deluded and lost as they are.

things are being 'shaken up'

but at least corruption has been erased,,,,lol


seriously though,,,,targets never like being targets , but then they dont mind targeting others

I do believe we have come to a time when Americans love of drama, sensationalism, and stereotypes has overtaken any desire for facts, research, or verification

I do believe the media and the internet shaped this race and people letting the abundance of information be a source for reaffirming their opinions instead of shaping them played a big role in this election

it could be a dangerous trend to continue allowing people to spread misinformation posed as fact to the public , I commend sites that are cracking down on it

meanwhile.............

Once again Democrats are presenting a false picture--a lie-- to the American public.
Those protesting Trump's election are not real grass roots citizens protesting.
They are paid money to foist a hoax on the public.
It is sad to see the Democrat Party complicit in lying to its own party voters.
Even sadder is the MSM reporting it as if it were a spontaneous citizen protest.

It's amazing, that a simple, regularly occurring
election, could put so much sand in the left's
collective orifice.

Lets hope Trump makes him his WH-Press-secretary!

its sad that America is diminished to 'left vs right' divisive winner takes all nonsense

Maybe some don't realize what 'alt media' is?

There is 'alt media' for every group and sub group, left and right of politics.
It is the most popular media in the United States.

Search for yourself. MSM/ Main stream media is failing miserably, for the right and left. It shows in each of their ratings. CNN to FOX and everything in between.

So, is it any wonder the far left wants to censor it ? All those channels and owned by about 6 people /corporations pushing agenda.

'Alt Media' was first to say, Trump had the most electoral and popular votes. Not CNN, FOX, CBS. And report on the riots and violence and the lack of violence and WikiLeaks and more.

So of course it is the most popular.
People have a CHOICE and can decide for themselves, what to know and believe . You can't do that if you rely souly on one network or on talking heads on the wall.



At this point, no matter what we may think of Alt Media ; it may be the ONLY journalism left in this country. Maybe - that is why Obama gave it away on October 1, 2016 to Non Americans.

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Alternative Media For The First Time In History Has Surpassed MSM
http://conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,110099.0.html?PHPSESSID=13gb0mq3trf0rv4t34otvn2jc5/

Alternative Media For The First Time In History Has Surpassed MSM During A Presidential Election. - The_Donald
http://m.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5d9px0/alternative_media_for_the_first_time_in_history/?compact=true/

and the creating of new Echochambers goes on!
Seems they haven't learned a Thing from the Election that just passed!

Clinton team didn't count on it that is for sure. They are so out of touch.
Her team underestimated the American people.
We are not zombies hanging on every word.
Which is where all this (fake )
'AMERICANS ARE SO SHOCKED AND UPSET' bullsh@t comes in.

They are the ones that are shocked.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=55863/

"A Twitter user conducted an interesting experiment to sniff out double standards in the site's censorship policy concerning race.
The person wrote the same comment on two different accounts with only two words changed, then reported each for abusive behavior.

The first comment read: "I f@cking hate white people and their inconsiderate a@ses for voting for Trump. F@ck you."
The second: "I f@cking hate black people and their inconsiderate a@ses for voting for Clinton. F@ck you."
The first was found not to be in "violation of Twitter's Rules regarding abusive behavior," while the second resulted in the user's account being banned"...

Pics of tweets and ban letter in link

I don't believe that to be true.
I think drama, sensationalism, and stereotyping was always more desired than facts, research, or verification.

What do you think is going to last longer and be more popular?
The bible, The Odyssey, Tale of Gilgamesh, the works of Shakespeare, or Scientific American?

I believe we have come to a time when "Americans" love of drama, sensationalism, and stereotypes, can be gratified more easily, more cheaply, with greater consequence except for the fulfillment seeker, watched and participated in by a wider audience.

I mean

"Alt media" (on the internet) makes money (thereby survives and thrives) by pandering to bias and click baiting.

Gossiping and globalization.

Pretty much every article or website linked in the politics and current events forum on this site is simple click bait.
...Which allows people to gossip and emotionally titillate themselves about something.
...driving them back to the sites to find new stories to start new threads to gossip and emotionally titillate themselves.
Constant emotional stimulation.
It makes people feel good.
"Love" takes too long.
Happiness is fleeting and involves risk.
Outrage, and anger, and smug superiority, and victimhood is pretty easy.

in the above example, one of these things is not like the other

just curious why one response clearly has a 'from' line and case number but the other does not.

summarized nicely

if alt journalism in the form of unaccredited, unverifiable 'facts' like Trump having the popular vote, and millions of protestors all getting a paycheck are the 'only' journalism left

we may as well turn to the National E nquirer as our national newspaper too,,,

It appears that posting and critizing them - must be titillating too.

Facebook fake news: Zuckerberg details plans to combat “problem”

http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2016/11/20/facebook-fake-news-zuckerberg-details-plans-to-combat-problem/

"FACEBOOK ADOPTS YOUTUBE HEROES METHOD OF CENSORSHIP TO SHUT DOWN "FAKE NEWS" SITES."
http://youtu.be/K7qM9mB3PN8/

Zuckerberg outlines steps to cut down on 'fake' Facebook news stories

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2016/11/19/Zuckerberg-outlines-steps-to-cut-down-on-fake-Facebook-news-stories/3291479585740/




It's 1984 - Thought Police/ News Speak

Nineteen Eighty-Four -
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four/