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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @12:27PM (2 children)
If the post tells what is NOT true, then yes. Does it?
But if it's telling the truth you'd like to suppress - then you, sir, are not just worse than any liar out there. You'd be worse than any overt fascist; because an open enemy of the society is less danger than an insidious one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:59PM (1 child)
Hello dummy, I bet you support trump even though it is clear he is a conman, liar, and very likely a massive criminal. You being as blind as the person posting on twitter isn't my fault.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @07:23PM
When choosing between those, the one with less rabid followers IS preferred, my dear SJW. The more your ilk runs around pestering people, the more Trump you'll get.