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The Satanic Temple, an activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts, is threatening to sue Twitter for religious discrimination after one of its co-founders had his Twitter account permanently suspended.
Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple's co-founder and spokesman, said his Twitter account was permanently suspended without any notice after he asked his followers to report a tweet that called for the Satanic Temple to be burned down.
"We're talking to lawyers today," Greaves said Friday about whether he planned to take legal action.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/satanic-temple-threatens-sue-twitter-over-religious-discrimination-780148
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Monday January 15 2018, @04:10PM (4 children)
So the Satanic Temple is an activist group and not necessarily a religion, so I'm not sure he can sue for religious discrimination. Not for not but shouldn't Satanists like fire? It feeling all homely and warm and stuff. There is humor in this somewhere. Satanists talking to lawyers ... of cause they are. They have after all so much in common. But it's a bit odd, so the satanists are told to report another tweet that in turn asked for their "temple" to be burned down? Yet they are the once that get suspended? Was he inciting a mob or? What happened to the one suggesting the burning (cause the link isn't working for me)?
As noted by the little tag -- my house, my rules. There is no God given (or by Lucifer or whomever -- or they might not actually worship anyone or anything but are more "egotistical" or whatever -- I seriously forgot what it is that they actually want or preach) that you should be on Twitter. But at least common decency should demand that you at least you should be told why you are removed. But overall that seems to be the current trend for the social media giants -- people that don't agree with them get removed or censored, while people with the "right" views get all the glory and can more or less say or do no wrong.
(Score: 5, Informative) by WillR on Monday January 15 2018, @05:03PM
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dry on Monday January 15 2018, @11:40PM (2 children)
This often (always?) only holds true for a private residence. Once your house turns into a public business, those rules change. Many jurisdictions have a list of reasons that you are not allowed to discriminate who uses your business. Restaurant refusing to allow people in due to dress like "no shoes, no service" is usually fine as long as it fairly applied. Restaurant refusing to allow people in due to religion, not so much.
Twitter is a public business, so is somewhat limited in the reasons to refuse service and refusing service purely based on religion may well be illegal depending on jurisdiction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:58AM (1 child)
Funny about those signs, pants aren't required.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:54PM
It wasn't that long ago that any fancy restaurant had a policy of "If wearing pants, no service" for females.