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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
(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.