alt-left Twitter purges many alt-right accounts

[juan]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:05:58 +0000
Ben Tasker <ben at bentasker.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/18/2016 02:55 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > > On 11/18/2016 03:44 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > >> Once known as the "free speech wing of the free speech party",
> > >> Twitter's true colours are hard to hide for even those with
> > >> slowest brainial neorone.
> > >>
> > >> Facebook to follow and Google joining the party.
> > >
> > > I wouldn't call them "alt-left" just because they want the
> > > garbage off of their service. There is a difference between free
> > > speech and garbage.
> >
> > Well, ACLU has supported rights of KKK to rally :)
> >
> >
> Aye, but they've not also given them a section on their blog to post
> on have they?
> 
> If you look a little deeper, you'll also find it's not the fundamental
> views (and expression of) themselves that Twitter have taken issue
> with, it's that the users in question repeatedly violated the ToS.
> 
> There's really not that much wrong with an individual service provider
> deciding there are rules if you want to use their service.


	'Their' service exists only thanks to the users and the fascist
	government they work for. 

	What kind of sane 'cypherpunk' 'activist' would defend fascist
	corporations like twitter? Rhetorical question of course....

	The 'terms of service' of the corporate mafia are null and
	void, in case you never noticed. 





 There
> might, of course, be some chilling effects if all players in that
> area decide to enforce overly strict rules, but that's somewhat
> different.
> 
> As ever, XKCD is relevant - https://xkcd.com/1357/
> 
>