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Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-house-my-rules dept.

"MrPlow" writes:

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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 Thexalon on Wednesday January 17 2018, @09:47PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 17 2018, @09:47PM (#623829)

    That may all be true, but it still doesn't prove that Trump is worse. There was every indication that Hillary wanted to start a war with Russia in Syria.

    My general take on both of the major party candidates when it comes to foreign policy:
    - Donald Trump could very easily start World War III by accident. His complete lack of experience with diplomacy, government, and military matters, combined with a hot temper and impulsiveness, could get us all into real trouble. For instance, a Twitter feud with a foreign leader could easily escalate.
    - Hillary Clinton could very easily start World War III on purpose. Her extensive experience with diplomacy, government, and military matters, combined with close friendships with Cold War war criminals like Henry Kissinger, could get us all into real trouble. This scenario has her listening to people who think like Buck Turgidson in Dr Strangelove.

    I'm fairly certain Clinton's scenario would be less bad, just because she'd be more prepared and thus more likely for the US to win it, but I didn't see a path to things not getting very ugly.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 17 2018, @10:24PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday January 17 2018, @10:24PM (#623861)

    I have to disagree. As another poster said, it's better to have incompetent evil rather than competent evil. With Trump, at least his hot temper and impulsiveness are IMO less likely to turn into anything, because they aren't really policy, and he has other people in the chain of command. And the foreign leader does too. With Hillary, she knows how to work the system and the people around her to achieve her goals, and that's really scary.

    So far, it looks like Trumpism is actually working: the two Koreas are now planning to attend the Olympics in a unified fashion, the first time ever. Maybe by being such an incompetent stooge, the two Koreas decided they needed to just ignore the US and work things out between themselves.