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As reported by The Huffington Post:
New rules implemented on Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.
[...] "You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people," states Twitter's rule for "violent extremist groups," which went into effect Monday.
"This includes, but is not limited to, threatening or promoting terrorism," the rule continues. "You also may not affiliate with organizations that – whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform – use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes."
[...] The "alt-right ― a loose association of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, assorted racists, fascists, and other far-right elements that has used Twitter for years to organize and recruit ― anticipated today's "purge," with many preparing to make the jump to Gab, a largely rules-free micro-blogging platform used primarily by white nationalists.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Wednesday December 20 2017, @01:17AM (2 children)
Naturally they still have their twitter account active. They are the "good" guys, even tho they have a massive banner image on top that says "The only good Fascist is a dead one!"
Then we have the fuckton of various islamic groups that want to murder all the jews they can find and don't mind telling you about it in tweet after tweet, still there to.
Citation needed. (Not saying you're wrong, but I'd like to see for myself.)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Wednesday December 20 2017, @02:20AM
First thing I came to, not precisely what you asked about (I don't use the dirty bird enough to know how to effectively search it, but I've seen screenshots of kill-the-Jews-in-the-name-of-Islam type posts), but interesting for the numbers:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31760126 [bbc.com]
"Islamic State has become well known for its use of social media, especially Twitter, to propagate its message.
The study, called The Isis Twitter Census, was written by JM Berger of Brookings and Jonathon Morgan, a technologist."
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2015/03/isis-twitter-census-berger-morgan/isis_twitter_census_berger_morgan.pdf [brookings.edu]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @02:52AM
Well here are a few...
https://twitter.com/hashtag/KillAllWhitePeople [twitter.com]
https://twitter.com/hashtag/killallwhitemen [twitter.com]
But that's not "hate speech," according to Twitter, or they would have removed it all and banned the associated accounts.