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Flat White

Net neutrality? Bahaha!

19 December 2017

4:33 PM

19 December 2017

4:33 PM

Another reminder that “net” is never neutral:

Twitter began a massive purge of users on Monday the company claims violate its new terms of service.

As predicted, nearly every account that was banned by Twitter was affiliated with the alt-right or far right.

White nationalist Jared Taylor, his group American Renaissance, and Britain First leader Jayda Fransen, the woman who posted the “Islamophobic” videos famously retweeted by President Trump, were some of the entities that received the boot from Twitter…

The case made for the social media platform to ban so many accounts is that harassment and violent racist rhetoric is out of control on...

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