A Twitter rules update rolled out on Wednesday to address the site's "verification" system, and it attached a new set of standards to any user whose account receives a "blue check mark."
Twitter's "verification" system is used to confirm accounts of celebrities and other accounts of "public interest." However, the feature has long straddled a blurry line between identity confirmation and "elite" user status, especially since verified accounts receive heightened visibility and perks such as content filters. That issue returned to the headlines last week when Twitter gave a blue check mark to white nationalist Jason Kessler. Kessler is best known as an organizer of the Unite The Right white-supremacist rally, but before then, he had racked up a significant record of online hate propagation, particularly with anti-Semitic rhetoric about "cultural Marxism."
"Twitter on Wednesday removed the 'verification' checkmarks from the accounts of a number of white nationalists and far-right activists -- in a move that critics say could have a chilling effect on free speech." http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/11/16/twitter-targets-white-nationalists-and-far-right-activists-in-de-verification-purge.html
(Score: 4, Funny) by choose another one on Friday November 17 2017, @02:55PM (1 child)
Obviously a nazi is someone with a blue checkmark...
Now, pink triangles, yellow stars, etc. they're different, but the common factor is that they're a way of identifying someone as different/special.
Apparently some of the nazis are not special anymore and have been downgraded, by having their checkmark removed, to be just like the rest of us. They're upset that they are now viewed as normal people rather than part of the nazi elite. The rest of the nazi elite are pleased that these people have been kicked out, because they believed in the wrong things and so they clearly belong down with the the scum/rabble. It is vitally important to believe in the right things when you are part of the nazi elite...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @03:05PM
Clearly, less important that having a blue checkmark.