Charles Johnson, one of the Internet’s most infamous trolls, has finally been banned

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JoshuaZ said:

He'll probably find some other outlet other than Twitter and just continue.

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Out with Travis and in with this guy!

Re: Charles Johnson, one of the Internet’s most infamous trolls, has finally been ban

beefheart said:

Took a long time, but he is finally banned from Twitter, 7 different names.

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That, alone, is a non-controversial violation of Twitter's rules, which state:

You may not create multiple accounts for disruptive or abusive purposes, or with overlapping use cases. Mass account creation may result in suspension of all related accounts. Please note that any violation of the Twitter Rules is cause for permanent suspension of all accounts.

And another rule concerning abuse:

You may not engage in targeted abuse or harassment. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be targeted abuse or harassment are:

• if you are sending messages to a user from multiple accounts;
• if the sole purpose of your account is to send abusive messages to others

https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311-the-twitter-rules#

In short, the individual was a serial violator of Twitter's rules. He was banned for such violations. This has nothing whatsoever to do with free speech (and, of course, Twitter is part of the private sector, which allows it to establish its own terms of use for its products/services).

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Just how far does the management of Twitter take this procedure? It is a very difficult, narrow management line to walk!

Should they ban any and all who make controversial statements?

I suspect the result would be a very boring echo-chamber site, with no debate, and little participation.

I don't know anything at all about the person banned. Perhaps he did exceed the bounds of civil discourse and productive debate.

But we've all seen Group-Think and Political Correctness, by a mob of hive-minded Lefties, a small post at a time, on a thousand forum threads, also exceed the bounds of civil discourse, and stifle all productive debate.

Why is ONE outspoken zealot banned, but the debate stifling trollet mob members not? Just because they do their evil from a wide spread array of accounts and people? It is still all just the same Political Correctness voice.

There is no rule as cruel and unjust as mob-rule.

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Re: Charles Johnson, one of the Internet’s most infamous trolls, has finally been ban

jmotivator said:

No, I think your confusion just grows. You are still doing it.

Should twitter suspend anyone who writes a post using that terminology?

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No, I think Twitter should ban anyone who appears to be making threats.

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Deuce said:

No, I think Twitter should ban anyone who appears to be making threats.

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So you don't think people necessarily are really threatening others if they say that?

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Is getting banned from Twitter a noteworthy accomplishment now?

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jmotivator said:

So you don't think people necessarily are really threatening others if they say that?

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No, some people might be suggesting a lunch option.