White Nationalist Jared Taylor Sues Twitter Over Ban

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By Allegra Kirkland | February 21, 2018 4:03 pm

White nationalist Jared Taylor and his organization American Renaissance are suing Twitter for permanently suspending their accounts, accusing the social media giant of “the silencing of dissident voices.”

The suit, filed Wednesday in California Superior Court’s San Francisco District, alleges that Twitter is engaging in viewpoint discrimination against the site for its racist views, in violation of the state constitution.

A spokesperson for Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Taylor and American Renaissance were banned in December 2017 as part of a crackdown by Twitter against users affiliated with hate groups “on and off the platform.” Those who made “specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people” were banned, as were those whose profiles include “hateful imagery and display names.”

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[mr_lebowski]

1. Good Luck Idiots ... Private Business. Capitalism. Suck it!

Start your own f'ing Twitter machine, toolbags!

[lagomorph777]

4. Yep - that knife cuts both ways.

[woundedkarma]

12. Exactly what I was thinking :) n/t

[The Mouth]

14. "Freedom of the press

is limited to those who own one"

[X_Digger]

2. Private company, moron. They have no first amendment obligation to you. n/t

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[bearsfootball516]

3. Uhhh

They don't have to allow anyone to tweet that they don't want to I imagine.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I wonder if the attorney is also a neo-nazi

since that seems to be the people he often represents.

[ailsagirl]

6. Imbecile

[pecosbob]

7. I pretty much despise twitter

but in what alternate reality do they believe any company has any obligation to publish their drivel? Can I sue Sheldon Adelson as owner of the Las Vegas Review Journal if they won't publish an editorial I write on Sheldon's violations of the Foreigh Corrupt Practices Act? Not bloody likely.

[hatrack]

8. Well, Shitbird, put on your tricorn hat, pick up your musket and powder horn . . .

. . . head for the town square and start posting your views in parchment.

Maybe you could nail them to a tree, or the courthouse door - you know, like back in the "Good Old Days" you otherwise can't STFU about?

[safeinOhio]

9. They are mean to me, says

the guy calling for deporting all people of color.

[keithbvadu2]

10. D'ya suppose he supports a private business refusing to sell a cake to gay couples?

[mr_lebowski]

13. Ya know? Call me cray, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and bet that he DOES!

Being too stupid to even realize what f***ing hypocrites they are ... is part of the RW genome, clearly.

[Gothmog]

11. Boo Hoo

[Akoto]

15. This is a DOA case. As a private company, Twitter has no 1st Amendment obligations. n/t

[meadowlander]

19. Yep. Let them invent their own social media platform and they can put whatever shit they want on it.

[forgotmylogin]

16. I'm pretty sure you have to check a box

to agree to the Terms of Service before you can create a Twitter account.

Case dismissed. Save your million dollars in court fees and use it to build your own hate network if you want.

[Grassy Knoll]

17. What A Tragedy

[Nitram]

18. Sue away, loser!

Your Russian supporters are illegal.