The photo which I found to accompany this Tweet:
LOTIE is a Ku Klux Klan abbreviation for a "Lady Of The Invisible Empire," i.e., a female Klan member. It is one of many codes, phrases and rituals created by the Second Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century. The Second Klan did not survive, but later Klan groups adopted many such codes and rituals, including LOTIE. www.adl.org/...
I Tweeted this while watching Velshi and Ruhle on MSNBC. They were discussing this after Laura Ingraham said “in major parts of the country, it does seem that the America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people and they’re changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don’t like.”
I discovered that I couldn’t log onto my Twitter account this morning, three days after sending the Tweet. When I tried to log on to Twitter I got the message in the screen-shot I used to illustrate this diary.
I was suspended for hateful conduct as described below:
- Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. We also do not allow accounts whose primary purpose is inciting harm towards others on the basis of these categories.
Examples of what we do not tolerate includes, but is not limited to behavior that harasses individuals or groups of people with:
- violent threats;
- wishes for the physical harm, death, or disease of individuals or groups;
- references to mass murder, violent events, or specific means of violence in which/with which such groups have been the primary targets or victims;
- behavior that incites fear about a protected group;
- repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone.
How our enforcement works
Context matters.
- Some Tweets may seem to be abusive when viewed in isolation, but may not be when viewed in the context of a larger conversation. While we accept reports of violations from anyone, sometimes we also need to hear directly from the target to ensure that we have proper context.
- The number of reports we receive does not impact whether or not something will be removed. However, it may help us prioritize the order in which it gets reviewed.
This comes from Twitter, the social media company that allowed Alex Jones to post offensive Tweets there until the media came down on him:
Twitter said Friday that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would, for now, remain online, one day after a CNN investigation found that Jones' Twitter accounts appeared to have repeatedly violated the company's rules.
A Twitter spokesperson said that the company concluded that of the more than a dozen tweets included in CNN's Thursday report, seven were found to have violated Twitter's rules. Twitter would have required those tweets to be deleted, if they were to have remained up.
But after CNN's investigation was published, the tweets cited in it were almost immediately deleted from the social media website. Jones said on his program Friday that he had instructed his staff to do so and "take the super high road," though he contested whether the tweets violated any Twitter rules.
Among the seven tweets found to have violated Twitter's rules, the spokesperson said, two of the tweets occurred recently enough that Twitter could cite them in the future to take additional punitive action against Jones' accounts.
It is of some interest to me why it took three days for Twitter to review this Tweet. I have to wonder if there was a complaint and if so who made it, perhaps it was someone monitoring Ingraham's account.
I thought this Tweet was a harsh but a well-earned commentary on a Laura Ingraham.
I don’t think I violated Twitter’ s stated policy but of course, it is up to them to make that decision.
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