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.
