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posted by janrinok on Thursday February 22 2018, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the death-of-the-bot dept.

According to Ars Technica

A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on Twitter than they had the night before. The apparent cause was the latest culling by Twitter of accounts that in some way violated the company's terms of service, a Twitter spokesperson told Ars, including "behaviors that indicate automated activity or violations of our policies around having multiple accounts, or abuse." The sweep has some on the right accusing Twitter of politically motivated censorship.

"Twitter's tools are apolitical, and we enforce our rules without political bias," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement emailed to Ars. The accounts were targeted as part of "our ongoing work in safety," the spokesperson said. "We also take action on any accounts we find that violate our terms of service, including asking account owners to confirm a phone number so we can confirm a human is behind it. That's why some people may be experiencing suspensions or locks. This is part of our ongoing, comprehensive efforts to make Twitter safer and healthier for everyone."

And at Vanity Fair:

Renewed fears of censorship have once again led some users to talk about leaving to join Gab, the so-called free-speech social network that cropped up in 2016 as an alternative to Twitter. And Gab couldn't be more pleased. Utsav Sanduja, the company's chief operating officer, told me on Wednesday that the company had seen "a surge of donations, Gab memberships, [and] user sign-ups" since Tuesday night.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @05:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @05:33AM (#642233)

    I don't see anything in your opinion to be sorry about.
    She was the worst candidate the Dumbocrats could have put up.

    She didn't have a clear message.
    For years and years, Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics George Lakoff has said [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [alternet.org] that the Dumbocrats need to learn to speak the way that GOPers do (think: Reagan).

    Do the Dumbocrats ever listen? No-oooo.
    They keep making the same stupid mistakes [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [georgelakoff.com] over and over.

    Not only don't they hire smart speech writers; not only don't they get coaching from pros like George; they don't even do polling in the right places to find out -where- they're doing badly (The Rust Belt) and where they need to go to speak.

    ...and the guy who was on their team and was drawing 20,000 people or more every time he spoke (while Killery was doing good to get 5000)?
    The Dumbocrats stabbed him in the back repeatedly.
    Trump has it right when he calls her Crooked Hillary.
    (Not that Trump has any room to breathe on that topic.)

    I'm trying to remember which smartie pants I heard on Pacifica Radio recently.
    Anyway, he said that for all the money Killery pissed away on ads, the Dumbocrats could have spent -half- of that and gotten better results.
    You find party loyalists who have cars and you pay them to take the day off from work on Election Day and drive Blue voters to the polls.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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