The social media giants continue to move to shut down all speech that dissents from the Leftist, globalist, socialist agenda. The examples that Twitter gives below of the “dehumanizing” speech that it is now going to ban are not arguable. But Twitter is almost certainly not going to stop there. It already notifies people when their tweets violate the blasphemy laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The next step will be to ban people for honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence and Sharia oppression. Soon Twitter will be entirely Sharia-compliant.
“Twitter Announces Ban on Language ‘Dehumanizing Religious Groups,’” by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, July 9, 2019:
Twitter announced in a statement issued Tuesday a new protected class is being recognized by the online forum: Religious groups. The move comes as one religion has campaigned for decades for a global ban on speech critical of Islam, while other major religions have been content to use public persuasion rather then the jackboot of government or corporate totalitarianism to deal with critics.
Several examples posted by Twitter are already covered under existing rules, so the addition of a protected class makes the move appear more toward controlling thought and debate than maintaining civil behavior online.
Twitter has in recent years sent warning notices to critics of Islam from the government of Pakistan and has also suspended accounts for criticism of Islam. This notice makes it official, however the guidelines are ambiguous and will likely have a chilling effect of muting critics.
Twitter said this is the first step and that more groups will be added to the protected list later.
Announcement posted by Twitter, “Today we’re announcing an expansion to this policy which will address dehumanizing language towards religious groups. This is just the first step. Over time we’ll expand the policy to include more groups and update you along the way. Learn more:”
Updating our rules against hateful conduct
We create our rules to keep people safe on Twitter, and they continuously evolve to reflect the realities of the world we operate within. Our primary focus is on addressing the risks of offline harm, and research* shows that dehumanizing language increases that risk. As a result, after months of conversations and feedback from the public, external experts and our own teams, we’re expanding our rules against hateful conduct to include language that dehumanizes others on the basis of religion.
Starting today, we will require Tweets like these to be removed from Twitter when they’re reported to us:
If reported, Tweets that break this rule sent before today will need to be deleted, but will not directly result in any account suspensions because they were Tweeted before the rule was set….
