Running through a sample of relevant accounts from October using 14/88 as a self-identifier, looks like 90 percent are still online with the same handles.
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Twitter's Nazi purge has taken out a number of notable accounts, but there's not much rhyme or reason that I can detect. Lots of explicitly Nazi content remains.https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/942776623157440512 …
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That's higher than would be expected in a random sample of active users, but not a whole lot higher. Certainly far less pressure than on overt ISIS accounts.
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While there's some variations in who got purged today, there's a definite bias toward offline organizations and people associated with such.
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So how's that new rule against hate symbols going? Here are 615 avatars, as of today, for users who IDed with 14/88 in October. Red X is a suspended account. In short, I am underwhelmed.pic.twitter.com/3s0erYsfhe
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A small but significant number of users appear to have changed their handles and branding to avoid the purge. They needn't have bothered.
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* X = Suspended, self-deleted or name change. I estimate about 2/3 are suspensions.
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Some, but by no means all, of the accounts pictured in this previous tweet display "temporarily unavailable because it violates the Twitter Media Policy" on a profile checkhttps://twitter.com/intelwire/status/942850666531381249 …
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This seems to be a PR stunt, sadly... also with the whack-a-mole effect those handles will be back up shortly, and for the tech savvy, bots may be created in their place... therefore exacerbating the problem
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People should know better than to say whack-a-mole to me by now.
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Touche. It'll be interesting to look at the data, I'm not convinced the targets at-large are significant operators, & it's also a different target set from ISIL handles. Overall, I agree the action is commendable but underwhelming. Key question is why these targets & not others?
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I have a theory about that a colleague is looking into.
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Following up on this - did I miss posted results of this theory?
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My theory turned out to be wrong, so it never got posted.
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Right last I checked Richard Spencer is still active.
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And all that will happen is they will come back in a while with a new account., & try to not make technically illegal posts but still say the same stuff.
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Free speech is protected speech and ALL speech is supposed to be free...
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Twitter is not the government. Does not apply. If you were a US citizen, you'd know that, tovarisch.
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Sure there is. LEGAL mandate in UK. They're still operating with impunity in the US.
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Twitter is probably only banning nazis with fewer than 1488 followers
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