Twitter Suspends Alt-Right Accounts, Promises Tools To Fight Abuse

[DonViejo]

By MATT SHUHAM Published NOVEMBER 16, 2016, 10:36 AM EDT

Twitter suspended several users from the alt-right movement Tuesday, the same day the social media platform pledged to combat hate speech.

USA Today reported that several prominent leaders in the alt-right community, which brings together white nationalists, anti-Semites and misogynists, have been banned from the site. Most notably among them were Richard Spencer, who Mother Jones called the movement's "self-styled prophet," his think tank, the National Policy Institute, and his online magazine, Radix Journal. Spencer called the move a “purge.”

“This is corporate Stalinism,” he said in a YouTube video published Tuesday. “I am alive physically but digitally speaking there has been execution squads across the alt-right.” Twitter also removed the accounts of Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn, John Rivers, and others, according to USA Today.

WeSearchr, a crowd-funded conservative news website created by Pax Dickinson and Charles C. Johnson, who was himself banned from Twitter in 2015, tweeted that the site “is on a censorship rampage!”

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[LT TX]

1. Day late & a dollar short

Where were they during this whole campaign? The hate has spread.

[budkin]

2. That toothpaste can't be put back in the tube

But thanks Twitter, you assholes