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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @05:07PM
Twitter doesn't care what you or the Nazis think. You have no say in what Twitter does. Twitter demonstrates every other month with yet another stupid drama that they don't care what you think. Don't like it? Perhaps create and/or join a decentralized social network.
A while back, hyperlinks were how you got from one profile to another, and I believe we called them webpages instead of profiles. Webrings were the groups you could join. Obviously that fell out of favor.