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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Twitter blocks the phrase ‘illegal alien’ as ‘hateful content’

The federal government, U.S. Supreme Court, and lawyers across the country use the words “illegal alien” to describe immigrants who illegally enter the country, because that’s the definition in the law.

But Twitter makes its own laws, and the social media giant is now blocking folks from promoting any messages with the phrase, which its moderators apparently consider “hate speech.”

“1/ Twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase ‘illegal alien(s)’, citing it as Hateful Content,” the Center for Immigration Studies posted to Twitter Tuesday. “However, ‘illegal aliens’ has been used in both federal law and by the Supreme Court.”

Twitter rejected a total of four ads from the Center but provided only vague reasoning for the decision.

“We’ve reviewed your tweets and confirmed that it is ineligible to participate in the Twitter Ads program at this time based on our Hateful Content policy..."

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are plenty of other terms to use to get the point across.

Anonymous said...

How about thieves? Or maybe freeloaders would be politically correct.

Anonymous said...

WHy do people go on twitter?
Never have never will

Anonymous said...

Twitter is a media company. It filters content no different than the very blog you are reading. Its their choice. Its Joes choice. Hate all you want but they both call the shots for the free service people use. This blog is no different in a sense. We have all seen comments deleted. Loads of hateful comments don't get posted I'm sure. Some bias exists. Use the sites for the value they provide. If it bothers you to the point you can't bear it you need help. You won't see FOX praising Obama and you won't see CNN praising Trump so why is it such a surprise to everyone a left leaning site filters words that they dont like?

Anonymous said...

There you go. Just like the fiction book "1984" predicted.

Anonymous said...

I went to my twitter page and repeatedly tweeted Illegal alien, several times. My account is still open.