Twitter to leave up a tweet about a “full-blown ‘hot’ civil war” by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers; the militia was quote-tweeting Trump
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @mat , @sivavaid , @monteiro , @kantrowitz , @dangillmor , @buzzfeednews , @retail_risk , and @peterme Tweets: Mat Honan / @mat : With Twitter's decision today, it appears that a militia group tweeting about a “full-blown ‘hot’ civil war” does not qualify as promoting violent extremism. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @broderick Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid : Twitter guidelines have no credibility. https://twitter.com/... Mike Monteiro / @monteiro : Seriously, it would be fucking fantastic if ANY @twitter employee who had a problem with this shit made their voice heard. DM me, even. Let us know you're TRYING. Because I hear a lot of “changing things from the inside” bullshit, but ZERO fucking results. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : In other twitter news, today we learned that civil war tweets are gonna fly on here https://www.google.com/... Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor : If this doesn't flagrantly violate community rules, what does? https://twitter.com/... @buzzfeednews : A tweet warning of a second American civil war written by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers doesn't violate Twitter's terms of service. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @retail_risk : If the founding fathers were still alive, I am sure they would have written “High crimes and misdemeanors and violating @jack's terms of service” into the constitution. #founders @ProfJeffJarviss https://twitter.com/... Peter Merholz / @peterme : .@twitter understands that the 1st amendment only pertains to the federal government, and that they don't have to harbor hatred and incitements to violence on their platform, right? https://twitter.com/...