Far Right Freaks Out Because Twitter Is Filtering Their Hate

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-freaks-out-because-twitter-is-filtering-their-hate?ref=home

Far Right Freaks Out Because Twitter Is Filtering Their Hate
The social giant has subtly made it harder to find some of its most controversial accounts and, naturally, some of Twitter‘s biggest trolls are unhappy about it.
Will Sommer
07.23.18 5:45 PM ET


New changes on Twitter have made it harder to find some of the site’s most controversial far-right users.

Prominent right-wing Twitter accounts, including a writer for conspiracy theorist hub InfoWars and white-nationalist figures like Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler, appear to have been hit with a number of new measures meant to reduce their visibility on the platform.

The changes have set off a full-on freak out on the right from figures angry at the possibility their audience sizes could be reduced. Bill Mitchell, a Trump super-fan who has more than 350,000 Twitter followers, declared that the changes were proof that “the LEFT is terrified of the Trump Message. An InfoWars petition against the changes has garnered more than 7,500 signatures claims that the changes amount to “silencing alternative voices online.”

“Free speech is in dire threat,” warned InfoWars personality Paul Joseph Watson.

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One of the new changes, first reported by Gizmodo, affects how certain accounts appear in searches on the site. Twitter’s search no longer auto-suggests the Twitter handles for various right-wing provocateurs. A search for far-right figure Mike Cernovich, for example, no longer auto-fills with a link to his Twitter handle, instead suggesting several parody accounts. If a Twitter user completes the search, though, they can find Cernovich’s actual Twitter account.

The search change appears to have hit a number of other right-wing figures, including pro-Trump provocateur Laura Loomer, popular far-right blog Gateway Pundit, YouTube philosopher Stefan Molyneux, and InfoWars’ Watson.

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[dameatball]

1. Okay, next question: Define what Trump's message is in real terms." I can't.

He can't either.

[PSPS]

2. "Free speech is in dire threat"

No it's not. Twitter is a private enterprise, as is Facebook and the rest. So, start your own platform and you're free to allow or bock anything your heart desires. Problem solved.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Fascists throughout history have used free speech as a sword rather than the shield it is.

Hate speech is not free speech and deserves to be outside the shield.

[Aristus]

3. What's the problem? Just jump over to 4Chan.

[Renew Deal]

4. Those accounts should be banned for spreading conspiracies and hate speech

[JDC]

5. Wait until the loss of Net Neutrality really kicks in

These bozos are going to be bad for buisiness for large ISPs/Corps and they are gonna cut these guys off in a heartbeat.

Good riddance to bad rubbish

[TheRealNorth]

6. I thought I read something last week

that the House Republicans were going to write a bill to prevent Twitter and Facebook from filtering the Nazi snowflakes

[Cha]

8. HaHa!