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Do you have a problem with Twitter banning foreign enemies?


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Did you object when Twitter banned accounts belonging to ISIS or Al Queda?

I don't think they have any issues banning accounts/tweets realted to anti-national activities. They have been such accounts for a while. It's the accounts related to opposition/journalists that have become a bone of contention.

Did you have a problem with Twitter banning ISIS propaganda pages and recruiters?

Shouldn't Twitter ban them too?

Unfortunately this is categorically untrue. Twitter does not ban international terrorists from its ranks nor does it remove regular people who say awful things on Twitter. Go for it, do a search for violent threats on twitter. See if they have banned every account in Africa or the Middle East, or Asia, etc. Even north America.

They may ban Luis CK for misogyny let's say, but they sure as hell would not ban all the Bros who use misogynistic language. Do you think we can't find twitter handles of cartelists making terroristic threats in Mexico or other places? Is that all gone now?


So they host articles that complain about being banned on Twitter, but are ok with banning entire countries?

But twitter is. And I don't know if they have option for country level ban.

Twitter can ban anyone for anything they want.

No. Just don't show that particular tweet to me.

No need to ban them.


Wow. I was under the impression that Twitter had a fairly high bar for banning accounts. Do you have any examples of the tweets that got members of your community banned?

Okay cool, now explain why Twitter shouldn't ban people.

Isn't Twitter a private organization that can ban anyone they want?

Twitter is very clear about its policy of banning accounts that promote real world violence.

Twitter banned an individual Account for violating their policy. Not quite the same as a government forcing them to block tweets.

That is a little unfair. There is a lot of nonsense on Twitter that doesnt get banned.

Private companies can ban whomever they want for whatever reason they want. Don't like it? Make your own twitter.

Have other Twitter Clones been banned ?

doesn't twitter ban people for doing this?
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