Posted on Apr 26, 2019
Twitter Won't Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS Because It'd Have to Ban Some GOP Politicians Too
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Though Twitter has rules against “abuse and hateful conduct,” civil rights experts, government organizations, and Twitter users say the platform hasn’t done enough to curb white supremacy and neo-Nazis on the platform, and its competitor Facebook recently explicitly banned white nationalism. Wednesday, during a parliamentary committee hearing on social media content moderation, UK MP Yvette Cooper asked Twitter why it hasn’t yet banned former KKK leader David Duke, and “Jack, ban the Nazis” has become a common reply to many of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s tweets. During a recent interview with TED that allowed the public to tweet in questions, the feed was overtaken by people asking Dorsey why the platform hadn’t banned Nazis. Dorsey said “we have policies around violent extremist groups,” but did not give a straightforward answer to the question. Dorsey did not respond to two requests for comment sent via Twitter DM.
Twitter Won't Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS Because It'd Have to Ban Some GOP Politicians Too
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In case people want the cliff notes, the article talks about algorithms that look for certain patterns, speech, and content and in many cases can shotgun blast people who aren't the actual target of said algorithms
"With every sort of content filter, there is a tradeoff, he explained. When a platform aggressively enforces against ISIS content, for instance, it can also flag innocent accounts as well, such as Arabic language broadcasters. Society, in general, accepts the benefit of banning ISIS for inconveniencing some others, he said.
In separate discussions verified by Motherboard, that employee said Twitter hasn’t taken the same aggressive approach to white supremacist content because the collateral accounts that are impacted can, in some instances, be Republican politicians."
This could all also be contributed to the fact that Twitter has been accused of targeting conservative views and could be too much negative press that they could probably handle. This could also be attempts by those on the left to link conservatism with white supremacy.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/06/joe_rogan_tim_pool_interview_jack_dorsey_twitter_exec_how_twitter_treats_conservatives_trans_people.html
https://www.augustachronicle.com/opinion/20180803/editorial-social-media-algorithms-silence-conservative-speech
"With every sort of content filter, there is a tradeoff, he explained. When a platform aggressively enforces against ISIS content, for instance, it can also flag innocent accounts as well, such as Arabic language broadcasters. Society, in general, accepts the benefit of banning ISIS for inconveniencing some others, he said.
In separate discussions verified by Motherboard, that employee said Twitter hasn’t taken the same aggressive approach to white supremacist content because the collateral accounts that are impacted can, in some instances, be Republican politicians."
This could all also be contributed to the fact that Twitter has been accused of targeting conservative views and could be too much negative press that they could probably handle. This could also be attempts by those on the left to link conservatism with white supremacy.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/06/joe_rogan_tim_pool_interview_jack_dorsey_twitter_exec_how_twitter_treats_conservatives_trans_people.html
https://www.augustachronicle.com/opinion/20180803/editorial-social-media-algorithms-silence-conservative-speech
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