Twitter Suspends Britain First Leaders

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42402570

At last.

[mikey4444]

YMB....Twitter is quite clear about why they have suspended both Golding and Franzen, and Britain First, and its because of their use of hate speech.

I suggest you read the BBC Link at the top of the page.

[mikey4444]

A well deserved BA for you mccfluff !

[anotheoldgit]

Seems like a rule for one and another for others.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5194155/Social-media-firms-lashed-MPs.html

[Togo]

How Very True AOG.

//Highlighting a series of anti-Semitic tweets she had reported but which had not been deleted, Ms Cooper demanded: 'What is it that we have got to do to get you to take it down?'
Ms Cooper said no action had been taken against anti-Semitic tweets shown to representatives of Twitter at a previous hearing.
They included abuse directed at Labour MP Luciana Berger, who has been a high-profile target of online trolling, which has already been flagged to the platform twice.//

[anotheoldgit]

mccfluff

/// Hate speech is speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or
gender. ///


Blimey!!! Could I get a few ABers closed down for the 'hate' speech towards me?

After all I can tick all of those boxes:

I am English, Church of England, White, Heterosexual, disabled and Male.

[Mamyalynne]

If you have received 'hate' speech use the option to report giving details.

[Zacs-Master]

'Could I get a few ABers closed down for the 'hate' speech towards me? '

You'd first have to prove the speech (accusation?) was incorrect. And that would inevitably lead, (after several insulting exchanges nullifying the original intent) to you invoking one of your standard replies, possibly 2b:
'I cant be bothered to educate the likes of you'

[anneasquith]

AOG, how do we know what you are ? You could be a dole dossing benefit scrounging Asian female ?

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Hate speech is speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or gender...//

An interesting "Best Answer".

Let's think about it for a moment. "Attacks"? "...such as"? Do you not think that we might expect more precision in the drafting of legislation?

Let's use a different "such as". Let's take political belief and affiliation. If I attack someone or some group because of his or their political beliefs, say, then am I guilty of hate speech? And what exactly constitutes an "attack"? For instance, is "All UKIPpers are loonies" hate speech? And if not that what about "All DUP members are bigots" hate speech? Yes? No? And what about "All Tories are vermin"? Hate speech? Or not?

[Togo]

VE The wording was straight out of the Miniluv lexicon. 1984 is well and truly happening. We will soon have a designated "hate week" where whereby we encouraged to vent with impunity. Controlled of course by Minitrue. It is all about the control of such forums and we are indeed negotiating troubling times.

[Togo]

Delete the where from where whereby. Got up to let the dog out.

[mikey4444]

AOG.....why would being English, Church of England, White, Heterosexual, disabled and Male result in you being targeted for speech ?

Its your (occasional) intolerance to people who are not any of those things that gets you into trouble at times.

[Togo]

Or AOG it is your propensity to tell the hurtful truth, or ask the awkward question. Coupled of course with your perceived conservative, in the truest sense of the word, outlook.

[-Talbot-]

I am English, Church of England, White, Heterosexual, disabled and Male.


AOG, You could also have added

''And I can also be a bit of a snowflake''