Twitter Bans 270,000 Accounts For 'Promoting Terrorism' (theguardian.com) 95
According to Twitter's latest transparency report, the social media company removed more than 270,000 accounts around the world for promoting terrorism in the second half of 2017. The number of accounts permanently suspended for sharing what the firm called extremist content between July and December represents a drop for the second period in a row. The Guardian reports: The social network puts this down to "years of hard work making our site an undesirable place for those seeking to promote terrorism." Nick Pickles, Twitter UK's head of public policy, said: "The overwhelming majority of these accounts were detected by our own technology, with just 0.2% of the accounts we suspended in 2017 being flagged by the police." Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet, according to the report, and 93% were discovered by tools that Twitter engineers had built. Twitter is understood to also use a combination of US and EU lists of terrorist organizations as well as research from academics and experts to identify terrorists on its network. The number of reports of abusive behavior submitted by government representatives also dropped amid a marked change in the type of abusive behavior reported. Two-thirds of the 10,000 reports concerned violated rules over impersonation, with only 16% of the reports for harassment and 12% for hateful conduct. Harassment and hateful conduct each accounted for a third of reported accounts in the first half of 2017. Only a quarter of reports of abusive behavior submitted by government representatives were acted upon by Twitter, compared with 98% of reports relating to the "promotion of terrorism."
Re:Useful??? (Score:5, Insightful)
And are all of the accounts actually promoting terrorism, or just shit that Twitter disagrees with?
Re: Useful??? (Score:3, Insightful)
NOTE: Feel free to mod me down since I'm an evil white Christian Conservative male, married to a real woman for 13 years and 5 kids including 3 adopted boys and a 30 plus year retired Field Engineer due to disability including an unknown neurological issues, chronic pain and some amazing big words that doctors are taught to say.
Now that that's out of the way. It has been proven that Facebook, Twitter, and several other social media companies have been censoring Conservative opinions, regardless if you belie
Re:Useful??? (Score:5, Interesting)
And are all of the accounts actually promoting terrorism, or just shit that Twitter disagrees with?
From TFS:Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet
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From TFS:Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet
How can the account be guilty of promoting terrorism without having sent any tweets? Was this just going off them "liking" other tweets, from accounts that were shut down for actual infractions, or was any account named "DownWithAmerica" targeted?
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In other words they were bots used to increase the follower count of other accounts, and amplify them with likes.
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I stupidly signed up for Twitter once.
My very first post was a response to some Leftist.
Twitter immediately suspended the account and wanted me to provide an ID, Phone number, etc. because the post was, "suspicious".
So, ya. They believe terrorists are anyone who disagrees with the Left.
Fuck'm
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Effective at the stated goal, or the real one?
Former: who cares
Latter: Advertising partners confirm their benefactors have been mildly placated
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It's useful to make twitter free of terrorism posts, but not very good for actual combat on terrorism, as they will just move to somewhere else.
What should happen is twitter giving the police a list of those things, and then the police acting like people looking to join, then arresting the fuck out of the terrorists as soon some sort of real meeting is made.
That meme of "all kids on the internet are FBI agents" should pretty much be real.
Really (Score:3, Insightful)
Promoting terrorism, aka being politically right of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
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Some states did have laws about open space and political speech.
Private property did not always stop open public political discussion in some US sates.
Re: Really (Score:1)
Why would an organisation that has C*Os from the centre and centre-right do that?
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There are literal Nazis on Twitter, and they don't get banned because they avoid breaking the rules.
There is zero credible evidence of political bias from Twitter in relation to account bans.
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Really. Please tell us why Sargon of Akkad was banned then.
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Posting hard core pornography was the last straw after numerous ToS violations.
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Hard core pornography? You mean the same stuff you can find all over twitter. Or is it because he posted gay pornography at alt-right figures who were attacking him, and their response was mass-flagging his account?
But somehow, people like arthur chu and kristi winters are still on twitter despite their numerous ToS violations that twitter doesn't seem to care about.
Re:So all the Israeli government accounts are gone (Score:4, Funny)
STW Analyst: “A lot of things have surprised me about working at the CIA! The diversity of occupations employed here, the rotation opportunities, the investment in employee training.”
But not, sadly, the practice of torture.
Without sending a tweet (Score:2, Insightful)
Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet
How can an account be banned for promoting anything before speaking publicly?
Easy list (Score:1, Funny)
They were registered in the domains...
@gop.com
@rnc.com
and
@maga.com
No need to wait for anything before Twitter decided it was terrorism. I wonder if they accidentally deleted any accounts belonging to vegans, they may want to increase security if they did.
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Banned from twitter, why would anyone care?!?
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Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet
How can an account be banned for promoting anything before speaking publicly?
I hear Tom Cruise and some drugged-out ladies in a pool were involved.
Liking a lot of pro terrorist posts (Score:2)
Promote Diversity (Score:1)
A lot of West-Wing head-scratching (Score:1)
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That requires planning skiils.
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Ok. That's not fair. Trump definitely isn't a terrorist.
That requires planning skiils.
He he it's so cool to hate on Trump without stating any actual problem you have with him. Wow you're so fashionable!
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He he it's so rebellious being a Trump sheep! Strong conservative values like porn stars, deficits, lies and corruption! Financial dependency on the elites! Tax cuts for the rich! Military marches! Super PAC kickbacks! Wow you're so cool! Bah bah.
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Errorist.
Re:A lot of West-Wing head-scratching (Score:5, Insightful)
Ok. That's not fair. Trump definitely isn't a terrorist.
That requires planning skiils.
Well that's quite true. The Obama presidency proved that you don't need planning skills to be a terrorist. He did a pretty good job of killing leaders of other nations with no clue on what to do after, or destabilize an entire area of the world to the point that millions try fleeing to Europe and cause mass destabilization of a second area of the world.
Bunk! [Re:A lot of West-Wing head-scratching] (Score:2)
That's a bunch of bunk. Obama did NOT start the civil wars, and they raged on with and without dictator removal. Keeping (Syria) versus removing original dictator (Libya) made no difference: both countries went to shit. If the Middle East civil wars had any single cause, it was the harsh economic crash that began under
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That's a bunch of bunk. Obama did NOT start the civil wars, and they raged on with and without dictator removal. Keeping (Syria) versus removing original dictator (Libya) made no difference: both countries went to shit. If the Middle East civil wars had any single cause, it was the harsh economic crash that began under W's watch.
Gadaffi: No threat to the US, openly welcomed inspectors, had a GDP surplus, was honoring stipulations on trade agreements. Was reforming country into quasi-secular areas with internal government bodies. Post-Hillary and Obama economic collapse, ruin, destruction, and slave markets. The only reason ISIS hasn't managed to get a foothold was because under Gadaffi individual areas were managed like states and had their own internal controls and worked together. Syria on the other hand is far, far, far more
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A civil war begun and he started mass killings of his own people, which made the civil war all the more heated. US didn't start the civil war.
You are comparing shit to puke.
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A civil war begun and he started mass killings of his own people, which made the civil war all the more heated. US didn't start the civil war.
A civil war didn't begin, and he didn't start mass killings of his own. Islamic extremists started a war, which became a civil war along sectarian lines.
You are comparing shit to puke.
Your actual ignorance of the world is astounding.
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Projection.
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What's "hateful conduct"? (Score:2, Troll)
Is it Ok to hate certain white hood-wearers? How about those with red stars and hammer-and-sickle [twitter.com]?
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Yet, the write-up claims, the did... Hence my question...
Meanwhile, at the Trump Tower (Score:2)
WTF, whispered the Donald
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Sounds like running from a witch hunt to me (Score:2)
No, the twits came up with a list of bad words and bad origins and made 2 teams, where each got really good with perl and Regexps shooting at different goals.
About fucking time... (Score:1)
Twitter banned people for all kinds of stupid shit, but promoting terrorism always seemed ok to them. I always thought those terror accounts were CIA fronts or something because why else where they allowed to stay up for years promoting ISIS?
Twitter has the right (Score:1)
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What if your religion is extremist?
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The teaching are perfect and direct from god.
A faith cant be changed. The faith is spread by war as part of that faith.
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was trump on there (Score:1)
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Baby steps (Score:2)