I just got this email from Twitter. The tweet that they’re saying may violate their “hateful conduct policy” is this one:
Twitter is not, mind you, saying that the imam is violating their hateful conduct policy by calling for Jews to be killed. No, Twitter is saying that I may be in violation of their hateful conduct policy by reporting that this imam called for Jews to be killed. Note Twitter’s reference to Germany, where authorities are imposing massive fines for “hate speech.”
Islamic supremacists have for years insisted that honest discussion of the jihad threat was “hate speech.” And now the other shoe is beginning to drop. If this tweet is hateful, so is everything else at Jihad Watch, and the whole site will before too long be shut down. I fully expect that to happen eventually, and maybe quite soon, since no one at all is pushing back against this Leftist effort against the freedom of speech.
Dear Twitter user,
We are writing to inform you that certain content on your Twitter account @jihadwatchRS has been flagged, for possible violation of Twitter’s hateful conduct policy (https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175054), specifically:
https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS/status/890580728190251008
We are sending you this notification to allow you to evaluate it.
If it is determined that the flagged content does not violate our hateful conduct policy, Twitter may still withhold content in Germany if the content appears to violate the laws of Germany.
For more information on our Country Withheld Content policy please see this page: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169222
If you believe we have contacted you in error, please reply to this email and let us know.
Sincerely,
Ren says
Twitter, fucking idiot!
carpediadem says
It’s actually likely that someone else – a hater of Robert Spencer – flagged the Tweet. Anyone can report tweets they don’t like and Twitter responds.
Ren says
Doesn’t Twitter team read the flagged Tweet before it responds?
David Pimentel says
@Ren
Not likely. These messages are likely the result of poorly-designed software that is unable to vet content beyond keywords and user-flagging of messages.
Walt says
Twitter should be looking at terrorist tweets like that pig iman from California
Bob says
Avoid twitter!!
Bob says
Avoid twitter!! And no, I haven’t already said it!
Shan says
Twitter is informing you that “certain content on your Twitter account @jihadwatchRS has been flagged”. That means somebody flagged your tweek. It says If you believe they have contacted you in error, please reply to this email and let them know. I think this is standard automated resposnse when a tweek is flagged?
underbed cat says
Next book for Robert Spencer…..The Complete Twitter’s Guide to Free Speech and (and it’s enemies), the one to the press, then one to the imam…. one to the liberal left…….etc.
Just a note I got two copies….great book.
Oliver says
Anti Semitism is unfortunately alive.
And getting worse. And so is freedom of speech.
Free speech for me, but not for thee.
Note
ACLU fought for the Right groups in VA.
SuzQ says
Robert Spencer is THE MAN TO WRITE THE BOOK ON HOW OBAMA DESTROYED AMERICA. ALL OF HIS ATTEMPTS AND HOW HE QUIETLY SNUCK AROUND TO DO THIS. I’M ON A CELL PHONE AND IT’S VERY EARLY HERE BUT I’M STARTING TO DOCUMENT THE THINGS HE DID (JUST BY MEMORY) BEFORE ACTUALLY RESEARCHING ALL OF THE THINGS. THAT MAN IS EVIL! DIABOLICAL! THE BIGGEST LIAR I HAVE EVER WITNESSED AND A JEW HATER LIKENED TO THE BEST OF THE MOST RADICAL IMANS. HE TRIED EVERYTHING TO DESTROY ISRAEL AND JEWS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME TRIED TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT WE WERE NOT HONORABLE WITH OUR BLACK PEOPLE. HOW COULD ONE BE SO HATEFUL TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHILE PROFESSING RIGHTS AND HONOR ON ANOTHER? HE IS. IN MY ESTIMATION, A SOCIOPATH. A VERY DISTURBED ANGRY MAN – LIKE BOTH HIS FATHER AND MOTHER. DID YOU KNOW HIS BOOK HAD TO BE EDITED 9 TO 1W TIMES BEFORE HE TOOK OFFICE- IT WAS SO RADICAL. (REMINDS ME OF HITLERS MEIN KAMPF). DID ANYONE READ IT? LIKE I SAID, DANGEROUS MAN.
Oliver says
Suzy. A bit off.
Slavery in the U.S..
1. It existed in the north also. Including states like Ohio. Just not widespread in yhe north due to weather and growing seasons.
2. There were black slave owners also.
I doubt those are taught or even mentioned today.
Carolyne says
The first slave owner in the US was black.
gravenimage says
SuzQ wrote:
Robert Spencer is THE MAN TO WRITE THE BOOK ON HOW OBAMA DESTROYED AMERICA.
……………………
SuzQ, Robert Spencer–with Pamela Geller–has already written such a book:
“The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America”
https://www.amazon.com/Post-American-Presidency-Obama-Administrations-America/dp/1439190364
Linde Barrera says
Does anyone have a corporate address for Twitter anywhere in the world? Why can’t loyal JihadWatch.org readers like me and many others flood Twitter Corporate with questions about their moronic policies on what some call “hate speech” but is in reality “truthful speech”? I would not insult them or say they are morons, but ask stuff like “If a doctor told you that you had cancer, is that doctor saying s/he wants you to die?” ?
underbed cat says
I wonder did he tweet back? Silence…..don’t blow my cover?
moeped says
I read somewhere :
The war is upon us. This part is the propaganda war which will cause escalation over time. The war machine has been full steam ahead for several years now and they escalated ever since Trump won. msm is their cheerleader.
gravenimage says
Twitter flags news tweet about Jew-hating imam for violation of “hateful conduct policy”
……………………
It’s fine to say that Jews should be killed–but “hateful” to point it out…
Ugly and dangerous madness.
apran says
I once reported to twitter about someone who had slandered some people including accused me as a gay without any proof at all, twitter responded by saying that I was violated twitter’s policy and suspended my account. The account I was reporting was (and still is) not suspended at all.
I complained to twitter and got no response at all.
So, fuck twitter!
Linde Barrera says
To apran- Wow! What a disgusting reaction from the management of Twitter. But I firmly believe that they will get theirs, and it will be much nastier than what they did to you. Take good care, apran. “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”
Westman says
I haven’t seen this level of polarization in the US since 1960’s over the Vietnam War. It is also a shame to see Germany sliding into a position as the dictator of the EU. Neither of these trends is good for our respective societies.
Facebook and Twitter seem to be doing their best to curtail communication that offends someone, which is almost all conversations having to do with politics and religion. Their mistake is choosing what is acceptible on the basis of how it affects revenue which turns them into partisans. They will have their lunch eaten just as they did to newspapers as more sites spring up to service the interests they have rejected. Their reign as communication gateways has a short lifespan when it is not open to all.
I’m not certain the the MSM and the social websites understand that if they and their political minions try to force Trump out of office there will be a physical rebellion on a scale not seen since the Civil War. The conservatives have generally held back and let the left make all the noise since the Vietnam War. I sense that is not the case with the present conservatives.
Peter Hannan says
It may well be as you say, but I wonder if it’s not just some algorithm that reacts to something like “(negative expression) Jews”, without taking the whole context. That would have to be corrected, of course.
Robert Spencer says
I’ve been running Jihad Watch for 14 years. Over that span there have been hundreds of posts about Islamic antisemitism. This is the first that was flagged. Get the picture?
Anne Smith says
The picture seems to me to be activity increasing on the part of Muslims, working hard to flag and report any Tweets which they do not like. I would have thought that this goes hand in hand with their increasing presence in Europe and America and their surging confidence that they have got the Governments of Europe and America sewn up.
Surely this sort of activity will only increase as they endeavour to assert their superiority.
Alien Republican says
It is not an increased activity of muslims. Liberals are suppressing social media in coop with state leaders. Germany has introduced laws deemed by some as unconstitutional but even if revoked later on its doing damage to the political opposition for the time being. Obama had informal talks to high tec managers to the same effect. Wonder what woul happen if twitter deleted trumps account…
Gary says
For non-muslims: “hate speech” = Saying anything, ANYTHING about Islam.
…..Jesus warned me there would be days like this.
“In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.”
(John 16:2)
harbidoll says
middle-east & eastern European Christians have been experiencing this for at least 1.000yrs.
SuzQ says
IT’S WHAT OBAMA DID TO THIS COUNTRY…CALLED RENDITION. IRAN IS GOING AFTER US HOPING THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SUE US IN COURT AND MAKE US GUILTY LOOKING. AGAIN, THANK YOU OBAMA – THE NIGHTMARE. WE ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE. ONE MUST DIG IN AND RESEARCH RENDITION. AGAIN, ANOTHER SHITTY LEGACY OBAMA LEFT. NOW THEY’RE GOING AFTER EVERY COUNTRY SEEKING THE SAME THING, LAUGHING. THEY DON’T EVEN LET ONE OF OUR PRAYER BOOKS IN THEIR COUNTRIES BUT WE HAVE TO USE GLOVES TO HAND THEM THEIR KORAN WHILE THEIR IN GUANTAMO – AND FEEDING THEM LAMB AND BAKLAVA ON THEIR HOLIDAY. DISGRACEFUL. AND OBAMA GIVES BIN LADEN A MUSLIM BURIAL. PUKE! BTW, WE ARE ALREADY SEEING TROUBLE FROM ONE OF HIS CRAZY, RADICAL SONS. HE’S THREATENING THE US WITH HAYE, ETC. BIN LADEN HAS 58 KIDS!
guest says
I can’t read all caps writing. It’s really difficult to read. If you want to be read and considered, please use lower case.
WorkingClassPost says
Yup, I’m with guest, just moved on to next comment.
Can’t read all caps.
Norger says
This is Orwellian. It’s now “hateful” to call out Islamic anti-semitism; this imam has religious reasons for hating Jews therefore we must respect him. We must celebrate the vibrant multiculturalism he brings to our country.
Benedict says
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eduardo odraude says
“How to break silicon valley’s anti-free-speech monopoly:”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450476/silicon-valleys-anti-conservative-bias-solution-treat-major-tech-companies-utilities
annmarie says
Thanks for posting the article from National Review.
Alien Republican says
Mainstream media still dominates and controls the perception of events by the uninterested majority. Conservatives have done a great job in challenging their narratives on social media platforms but will be wiped out in the years to come if the current purge is not stopped. It is the nature of censorship that the oppression of “extreme” positions will make look the remainder worse and on it goes…
Allan Mandrowski says
Twitter, Google, Facebook always are quick to harass us, but murderous, barbaric islamic violence gets a free pass and no condemnation from them whatsoever.
scherado says
Let’s fast-forward 50 years to a futuristic, museum display which depicts Germany’s role in what has been called, WWIII (to make things “easy”): “Twitter may still withhold content in Germany if the content appears to violate the laws of Germany.”
The first shots fired were the result of Twitter exchanges, Twitter exchanges between embassadors X & Y that FAILED to be posted, and… do I need to continue?
SuzQ says
There will be NO MORE GERMANY. I GIVE IT 2 YEARS. AND GERMANY, ALAS, ALL OF THE ‘HATE TRUMP EUROPE’ WILL CALL ON AMERICANS TO FIGHT AND DIE BECAUSE THEIR IMMIGRATION WOES. LOOK, IMMIGRATION IS FINE, BUT NOT THE WAY THEY ARE DOING IT. NO WAY! AND WHY DOESN’T ANY MUSLIM COUNTRY TAKE IN THEIR PEOPLE? AND WHY DOESN’T EUROPE INVEST AND REBUILD AFRICA FOR THE MONEY AND LIVES THEY’RE SPENDING? They can give these people jobs that they’ll never have in Europe and build their homelands…give them pride. Right? Europeans appear super ….Stupid. I feel sorry for the people who cannot address the Elephant in the room!
Screeminmeeme says
Both Twitter and YouTube have been censoring those of us who speak the truth about Islam. It would be great if someone created an alternative to Twitter where freedom of speech is allowed.
Dum Spiro says
Robert, maybe you can join the Rebel Media app?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnlPYpmhDs
Between the supporters of Jihad Watch and the Rebel there should be enough support to pay for a really good app that can’t be shut down…
— Spero
Dum Spiro says
Here is the link from the image Robert shared in case you’d like it as such: http://wp.me/p4hgqZ-w7j
Robert writes excellent articles, so you should like it…
— Spero
Screeminmeeme says
Both Twitter and YouTube have been censoring those of us who speak the truth about Islam. It would be great if someone created an alternative to Twitter where freedom of speech is allowed.
The Left is determined to suppress any speech they don’t agree with.
Liila says
We’re not allowed to be critical on faceshit anymore, either. I’m getting worried that they’re allowed to scream for our death and rape and dismemberment but we’re losing all forums in which to speak. Someone asked me how I could be certain that some insane moslem won’t be able to target *me* for the things I say and come at me with a knife someday. He was scared. Scared that people who speak the truth will be picked off one by one for merely being critical and utilizing our free speech rights. For as long as we have them, that is…They’re trying to take those away, too. And nobody says or does a damn thing.
John A. Marre says
So, it’s obvious from that, that Twitter has software filters, with different rules for different countries, that read postings and determine if they are politically correct. In other words, Twitter is controlling what you can twit and not twit. Twitter is not a forum for free expression, but for the promotion of Islam, and for the suppression of ideas that resist the oppressive nature of Islam.
EDDIE says
all of us can leave comments on the reluctant sites …just say “WOW,CHECK JIHAD WATCH”
maybe they’ll look
Georg says
Not even 100 years after the Holocaust it is controversial to warn others about an individual calling for the genocide of Jews. How progressive.
underbed cat says
Good point…but he called for Allah to do this, no doubt he would use that as an defense…I think…but this hateful prayer was made in the mosque and the commands are from the quran, which is standard doctrine that the world has not grasped yet. He just got caught. At muslim parades they chant stuff and carry sighs that call for death of non believers…nothing new…but it should be stopped. On you tube there is much worse…or just as bad. I don’t know if twitter can get sued, but criticism should not be toward the person who reports it…. … the left they’ll ignore it and protest the President or Putin or the KKK, or but never allow themselves an opportunity to examine the quran.