Twitter "sorry" for "mistake" of posting "Kill All Jews" as a trend

[RickMycroft]

You’d think Twitter would have a Big Board, with their current trending on it, where humans could see it and flag it for someone with authority to delete it.

(If nothing else, it would be a cool Big Board.)

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Think of the shit things on there every day though; the Pres, Kardashians, before the really bad shit like this.

[gracchus]

@Aelfscine

Although that goes both ways as well - a lot of the Israeli government is acting out of what they call ‘Zionism,’ but they basically just want apartheidal cultural genocide of Palestinians, and will brooch any criticism of that as equal to demanding the destruction of a Jewish homeland.

Well, there’s a distinction between the Israeli government (currently led by Likud) and the Israeli state. Unfortunately it’s not one a distinction that American conservatism cares to make.

[jandrese]

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, that person is basically a dictator.

In easy cases like this it’s no problem, but the problem gets messy in a hurry in real life. It’s a real world problem.

[gracchus]

It’s not impossible for a general-interest site to take a stand against white supremacy or a regime that supports it, by the way. This just came to my attention.

New Ban: Do Not Post In Support of Trump or his Administration | Trouble Tickets

Here’s the full text:

The following policy announcement is the result of over a year of serious debate by the moderation team. The decision is as close to unanimous as we ever get. It will not be the subject of further debate. We have fully considered the downsides and ultimately decided we have to stay true to our values. We will not pretend that evil isn’t evil, or that it becomes a legitimate difference of political opinion if you put a suit and tie on it.

We are banning support of Donald Trump or his administration on the RPGnet forums. This is because his public comments, policies, and the makeup of his administration are so wholly incompatible with our values that formal political neutrality is not tenable. We can be welcoming to (for example) persons of every ethnicity who want to talk about games, or we can allow support for open white supremacy. Not both. Below will be an outline of the policy and a very incomplete set of citations.

We have a community here that we’ve built carefully over time, and support for elected hate groups aren’t welcome here. We can’t save the world, but we can protect and care for the small patch that is this board.

Policy outline:

1. We are banning support of the administration of President Trump. You can still post on RPG.net even if you do in fact support the administration — you just can’t talk about it here.
2. We are absolutely not endorsing the Democrats nor are we banning all Republicans.
3. We are certainly not banning conservative politics, or anything on the spectrum of reasonable political viewpoints. We assert that hate groups and intolerance are categorically different from other types of political positions, and that confusing the two legitimizes bigotry and hatred.
4. We are not going to have a purge — we will not be banning people for past support. Though if your profile picture is yourself in a MAGA hat, this might be a good time to change it.
5. We will not permit witch-hunts, progressive loyalty-testing, or attempting to bait another into admitting support for President Trump in order to get them banned. The mod staff will deal harshly with attempts to weaponize this policy.
6. It is not open season on conservatives, and revenge fantasies against Trump and Trump supporters are still against the rules.

Policy Citations:

1. Racism and rhetorical alliance with white supremacist groups. This is a fairly thorough collection of citations in itself, not just a single tweet.
   https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/statu…764966912?s=19
2. Hostility to transgender persons. [https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-…untry-n923266]
3. Attempting to ban transgender servicemembers from the military [https://www.sfchronicle.com/lgbt/art…-13086811.php]
4. He is personally hostile to both individual reporters and the very idea of a free press. [ https://www.motherjones.com/politics…media-threats/ ]
5. He mocks the disabled. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA ]
6. He mocked a sexual assault victim, to applause from his supporters. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m00qAeFHaQ ]
7. For the record, “Globalists” is almost always code for “Jews,” particularly if it’s in concert with anything about Soros. [ https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis…ling-for-unity ]
8. When confronted with the fact that his rhetoric may be encouraging domestic terrorism, he has indicated he should maybe encourage it more, and has implied the press has it coming. [ https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum…hreats-1190263 ]
9. He is attempting to stoke fear and violence in other arenas, as well. [ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w…-a8512406.html ]
10. It is clear from context that his embrace of “nationalism” is a dog-whistled love note to white nationalists.
11. There are components of his immigration policy that cannot be supported by persons of good conscience. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_…aration_policy ]
12. Further reading on this and all of the above topics are freely available from any reputable news site. [ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/…ration-n895006 ]

[to be clear, I am not implying that BoingBoing should or needs to implement such a policy. Il Douche’s supporters and apologists already can’t hang here for very long, and the staff’s principles on the subject are already well known]

[Slant]

Agreed. #DeleteTwi _____________________________________________

[the_borderer]

@tsath

“Anti-Zionism” is the belief that Zionism, the desire for a homeland for Jews in the Middle East is itself wrong and that Israel in any form should be abolished.

What about those on the left (I count myself among them) who believe in the abolition of all nations?

[gracchus]

@the_borderer

What about those on the left (I count myself among them) who believe in the abolition of all nations?

That’s called “being consistent”, because Zionism is objectively as nationalist a creed as that supporting a Palestinian homeland. Granted, it came about as a response to toxic anti-Semitic nationalism in countries like France, but nationalism it is none-the-less.

[tsath]

If you are actually consistent about it, cool. But if, somehow, you only have vague platitudes about a someday withering away of the State but for now it always comes back to those evil, evil Zionists, then you’re a racist against Jews. Because when there’s a special standard for Jews (and Jews alone) and drastic action has to be taken against Jews (and Jews alone) and the aspirations of Jews (and Jews alone) must be vetted and defined by non-Jews it’s a couple steps past simple bigotry.

[Melted_Crayons]

Twitter and Facebook are only “sorry” when their problems won’t go away. These two corporate “persons” are incapable of moral and ethical behavior b/c their only focus is on profit.

[YetiLives]

Social media has become our worst nightmare. I work in IT and frankly, I’m just sick of technology. Everything is tied into the cloud and everything spies on you or makes life worse, not better. The only thing hi-tech is good for is science research and medical research and procedures.

[AnthonyI]

[jandrese]

@YetiLives

Social media has become our worst nightmare

@Sartre

Hell is other people

Or maybe “this is why we can’t have nice things.”

[gracchus]

Facebook is not about to let Twitter gain all the lucrative white-supremacist-enabling “glory”:

Facebook Allowed Advertisers to Target Users Interested in “White Genocide” —...

[DukeTrout]

@gracchus

Speaking of things shareholders won’t put up with, Twitter and Facebook aren’t interested in spending the money needed to hire and train human moderators properly or to foster an involved community, both of which are really needed to prevent stuff like this.

[emo_pinata]

@jandrese

Tech companies don’t want to become content moderators because…

… it costs money.

[scottslemmons]

You know what Twitter absolutely will crack down on? They’ve given people temp and extended bans for using the sarcastic #killallmen hashtag.

[TobinL]

@emo_pinata

… it costs money.

And not just the employees but the counseling for having to deal with the worst of humanity.

[anon55609254]

@jandrese

Think of it as an experiment in determining if the rules are still relevant and providing value to society. What if we aren’t constrained by these rules what happens?

@L0ki

Yes, that’s pretty much what Facebook, Uber, Twitter, etc. every fucking corporation want.

  

[Arduenn]

Twitter,