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Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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It's been encouraging to see companies grow a backbone and crack down on harassment and hate campaigns, and not hide behind cowardly cries of "free speech." Twitter has taken too much time to do this, but recently they've been doing it more. Even Reddit, notorious for powering and consciously allowing hate campaigns, has cracked down more.

It's also been interesting that the proponents of allowing these campaigns to continue say that stopping them will indeed lead to totalitarian censorship of "free speech."

Granted we must always be vigilant against social pressure going too far. For example, the mob that formed to find the Boston marathon bomber over-zealously targeted the wrong people, risking their lives. We must learn from things like this.

But to jump from banning hate campaigns on private platforms, to total censorship, is an impressively intellectually dishonest juggling act.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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It's been encouraging to see companies grow a backbone and crack down on harassment and hate campaigns, and not hide behind cowardly cries of "free speech." Twitter has taken too much time to do this, but recently they've been doing it more. Even Reddit, notorious for powering and consciously allowing hate campaigns, has cracked down more. It's also been interesting that the proponents of allowing these campaigns to…

What has Qanon ever said that can be remotely considered hateful?

Who determines what is hateful?

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

#16

It's been encouraging to see companies grow a backbone and crack down on harassment and hate campaigns, and not hide behind cowardly cries of "free speech." Twitter has taken too much time to do this, but recently they've been doing it more. Even Reddit, notorious for powering and consciously allowing hate campaigns, has cracked down more. It's also been interesting that the proponents of allowing these campaigns to…

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Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you be more specific?

He retweeted a video wherein a man yelled white power.

I watched the video and it seemed pretty obvious that the old man responded mockingly to the other person accusing him of white power.

I don’t think the driver was actually chanting white power as a claim that white power was his desire.

Now, there’s certainly an argument for not making such a response and to channel anger better and not joke about such things. But I don’t think retweeting that video is a show of support for white power. Poor taste is much more likely.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About which part?

Isn't it obvious? A claim like "US president who spreads more white supremacist propaganda" needs to be substantiated with specific evidences.

Such a claim may well be doubted, but why do you? Producing counterexamples is relatively easy, comparing to proving a negative, so why don't you provide the ones you have in mind?

I think it's an interesting question to ask, if there are people who aren't the President, who are worse, and are not ostensibly as privileged, what's going on? As I understand it, the system is supposed to prevent those who aren't world leaders from behaving badly.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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The average person isn’t capable enough to judge information for themselves; we need people in power to curate what is seen.

People in power tend to curate content so as to consolidate and improve their power, not to make average people's lives better.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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post #14

It's been encouraging to see companies grow a backbone and crack down on harassment and hate campaigns, and not hide behind cowardly cries of "free speech." Twitter has taken too much time to do this, but recently they've been doing it more. Even Reddit, notorious for powering and consciously allowing hate campaigns, has cracked down more. It's also been interesting that the proponents of allowing these campaigns to…

What has Qanon ever said that can be remotely considered hateful? Who determines what is hateful?

> Who determines what is hateful?

In this case, Twitter.

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