Twitter Blocks The Alt-Right, Allows Racist Death Threats To Ajit Pai – IOTW Report

Twitter Blocks The Alt-Right, Allows Racist Death Threats To Ajit Pai

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Twitter began a massive purge of users on Monday the company claims violate its new terms of service.

As predicted, nearly every account that was banned by Twitter was affiliated with the alt-right or far right.

White nationalist Jared Taylor, his group American Renaissance, and Britain First leader Jayda Fransen, the woman who posted the “Islamophobic” videos famously retweeted by President Trump, were some of the entities that received the boot from Twitter.

The standard by which Twitter decided which users were no longer welcome seemed remarkably arbitrary, as noted by a few observers like right-wing watcher Will Sommer.

The entire alt-right wasn’t banned, only random accounts, some of whom appeared to go out of their way to conform to Twitter’s terms of service.

While the standard for Twitter’s purge is unknown, it is pretty obvious the new rules aren’t being equally applied to any left-wing accounts.

The case made for the social media platform to ban so many accounts is that harassment and violent racist rhetoric is out of control on the website. Surprisingly enough, plenty of leftists engage in that behavior on social media as well.

But that seems to only be a problem Twitter cares about if it comes from the Right, as the example of Federal Communications chairman Ajit Pai proves.

Hundreds of left-wing users have recently taken to issuing death threats and other promises of violence to Pai over his decision to scrap net neutrality regulations.

Pai, an Indian-American, told The Daily Caller last week that he was shocked at the amount of racism he received on social media for his decision.

Here are a few examples of leftists tweeting racist death threats at him.  MORE

12 Comments on Twitter Blocks The Alt-Right, Allows Racist Death Threats To Ajit Pai

  1. Trump should just say he is switching to Gab and Twitter will die.
    And we we will follow him there.
    We need a wide open web , and now we have it . Screw the left and their hope to bring the web under their control.
    HA! Ha! Trump is President.
    Winning.

  2. There hasn’t been a true Liberal in US elected office since Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Other than DPM, the left has had complete control over the Democrats since JFK. Todays Democrats are further left than today’s Russia, albeit slightly.

  3. Refuse to have facishbook or twatter. Everybody tells me I should advertise my small business with them. Not a chance. If I can’t make a go with just quality work, good satisified customer references and word of mouth, I’ll deserve to fail. So far, so good!

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