Twitter suspends American far right activists' accounts
The article explains the decision Twitter has made to suspends a number of American 'alt-right' activists hours after announcing a renewed push to crack down on the hate speech. Among the accounts removed were those of the self described white nationalist National Policy Institute which includes its magazine, Radix and its head Richard Spencer. Spencer has called for peaceful ethnic cleansing to halt the deconstruction of European culture. A Twitter spokesperson has said 'the Twitter rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct and multiple account abuse and we will take action on accounts violating those policies'. The move came the same day that the social networking site announced the push against hate speech and harassment on the site.
- New features giving users more control of what they view
- Training process has changed for moderators of the site
- In relation with the US election, the move was certainly too late
I believe social media have been way too laid back on moderating the content on social media because users have been able to post abusive, racial and harassing tweets or pictures without much them being removed and punished. This is why people have just become adaptable when they enter the electronic World on social media because they expect to see discriminative posts unlike in real life where we would report the things we see online to police but the fact that its online people don't seem to care. However, there are people who do use the 'report' option besides posts which moderators would be able to see and take further action.
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