http://news.sky.com/story/twitter-suspends-alt-right-donald-trump-backers-10659876
- Twitter has suspended accounts of 'alt-right' figures who championed Donald Trump's bid for the White House
- Richard Spencer, director of a white nationalist think tank, accused the social media site of "corporate Stalinism" after his personal account was terminated
- Twitter would expand its "mute" option in a bid to combat cyberbullying.
- Spencer said "I think Twitter, Facebook and others are deeply triggered by this election and that social media helped elect Trump."
- USA Today reports - a non-profit organisation asked Twitter to remove more than 100 accounts of white supremacists
- In February, Twitter suspended more than 125,000 accounts, most of them linked to Islamic State, as part of efforts to eradicate "terrorist content"
This story is interesting due to the idea of censorship; the issues with social networking are that liberation and freedom of speech is what they revolve around, therefore how can we essentially ban accounts for reflecting their own opinion. The problem here is what different people account for as being'extremist' views and what should and should not be allowed to be published online because surely a number of people will share the same views and values, therefore it becomes a more difficult task to crack down on censorship.
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