Following violence in Charlottesville, accounts affiliated with the neo-Nazi website are “suspended” on the social media platform.
Twitter is the latest tech company to ban Daily Stormer accounts.
Twitter appears to have joined the Daily Stormer boycott.
Twitter suspends accounts for a number of reasons including spam, security of the account is at risk or if the user engages in abusive behavior. When asked for comment, a company spokeswoman said Twitter doesn’t comment on individual accounts but its rules “prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies.”
The events triggered a national conversation on whether racist and neo-Nazi communities should be allowed to use social media sites. The general consensus increasingly appears to be no.
