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….
Dum Spiro says
Censorship is the first step toward tyranny.
People should realize what has been happening and what it really means for them…
— Spero
No Muzzies Here says
Isn’t there a book that calls Jews pigs and dogs? That’s dehumanizing, but I’m betting that Twitter wasn’t thinking of that when they concocted this ban.
crawford421 says
This. Report Muslim comments, report anti-Christian comments, make them live by their own rules.
b.a. freeman says
sadly, that won’t work, crawford; they’ll just say what they do when they shadowban U, and U ask them why: nothing. U won’t hear word one, and the tweet U bring to their attention will be left up, with no strikes against the account holder.
Georg says
Muslims/Islam complaining about “hate speech” and the like has always been ludicrous in its irony, but just goes to show the favoritism and agenda-driven nature of leftism packaged as “justice.” Often, what they call “justice” is really injustice, as with illegal immigration in many regards and with the installation of Islam. The overarching goal of leftism, not that it’s news to anyone here, is a tearing down of the West. For many in the left it’s an act of penance they’ve been inculcated to feel is owed, and for others it is a manifestation of jealousy, greed, misplaced anger and all too common hatred. When you have a Congressperson from New York calling for the dissolution of the Dept. of Homeland Security, her priorities and impulses (and those of her constituents) are clear.
b.a. freeman says
+1
John says
Just quote the quran and the hadiths , that in itself is dehumanizing islam with it’s own words. Surat An-Nisa’ (4.89)
http://quran.com/4/89
“They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.”
Look at the current situation in Syria. How can Islamist terrorists slaughter Alawite people or rape Christian women so easily? Because they take this “right” from their belief and they believe that they will go to the heaven because of these vandalistic actions against “outsiders”, who are out of Islam, who don’t believe the same religious tenets — in other words, those who are the “heretics” according to their belief. Some Muslims say, “But they are not the real Muslims.” That is a big lie; that is the exact form of real Islam, because these vandalistic actions are in accord with the orders of Quran.
You have heard many times that “Islam is a tolerant religion”. That is the biggest lie that you can hear all over the World, and this lie is used as a mask to hide the terrible face of Islam. There is NO difference between Islam and Islamism. This is the main error that the modern world make about Islam. There are not different forms as Islam and Islamism, they are the same thing, and they have the same content. This separation is just only an illusion, and it is used by Muslims to hide the brutal, hateful, oppressive,murderous, genocidal face of Islam.
Islamic theology is based on the verses of the Quran and Hadith. Hadiths are the words and actions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and all Muslims must follow these words and actions in addition to the orders of Quran. For example, you have to defecate as Muhammad did, and you have to clean yourself as he did, or you can rape and enslave a “heretic” woman in a war as a sex slave as Muhammad did, or you can torture your enemy in a war to learn the place of his hidden money, as Muhammad did.
You “must” cut the hand of a thief as Muhammad did, not give him any prison sentence as do the modern laws.
You must stone a woman to death as Muhammad did, because she had sex outside of the rules of Islam (but you must only whip her partner a hundred times). If you are a Muslim, you can never set them free while considering that their sexual actions are about their own personal relations and freedom, in accord with modern laws. You must definitely apply the punishments of Muhammad such as stoning the woman to the death and whipping her partner a hundred times if you want to be a good Muslim.
You must kill the man who left the belief of Islam, as Muhammad did. You can’t say “This is his own choice and he has the freedom of thought and belief”, because it is an order of the Quran that you “must” kill the persons who were Muslim before and then left the Islamic religion.
You must kill all homosexuals according to the orders of Islam. No Muslims can say according to Islam that their sexual orientation is their own natural right, in accord with the human rights norms of our age.
You have the “right” to marry a little girl at 9 years old, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape a little child legally in Islam and make her a sex slave, and also a domestic slave till the end of her life.
You can lie alongside of your dead wife for 6 hours, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape the dead body of your wife for 6 hours after her death.
Here is Islam…Here is the “tolerant religion”…Here is the right way to the heaven…Here are the orders of Allah…Here are the actions of Muhammad…
You can easily see how civilized the Muslim countries of the world are because of Islam, such as Afghanistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran, Sudan and the others. You can see how much they have contributed to the history of philosophy, the history of art, and the history of science of the whole world. You can see how respectful they are to human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, the freedom of expression and thought, the freedom of the press, the freedom of belief, etc.
The first genocide wave of 20th century, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide and the Pontic Greek Genocide, was perpetrated by Turkish and Kurdish people of the Ottoman Empire and the new Turkish Republic, getting motivation from the “rights” that they had because of Islam: the “rights” of killing and raping the non-Muslims, enslaving their women and little girls as sex slaves and also domestic slaves, and grabbing their money, houses and lands. However, “The Committee of Union and Progress” (CUP) (Turkish: ?ttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) was based on Turkish nationalism; they used Turkish and Kurdish people easily for these genocides because of the Islamic religion’s content about non-Muslims. All the Turkish and Kurdish Muslims believed that they would go to the heaven if they killed more non-Muslims, as do today’s Islamist terrorists. ولا يعاد غسل الميت إذا أولج فيه لسقوط تكليفه ولا يجب بوطء الميتة حد ولا مهر
A dead body need not be washed after you have sexual intercourse with her
Imam Shafie – نهاية المحتاج الى شرح المنهاج فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الشافعى – Book Of Purity Chapter Of Washing [2]
You just have to wash your penis:
ولو غيب الحشفة في دبر امرأة او دبر رجل او فرج بهيمة او دبرها وجب الغسل سواء كان المولج فية حيا او ميتا صغيرا او كبيرا
If the male genitalia completely entered a woman’s behind, or a mans behind or a baheema(animal) from behind or vagina, he must be washed wether it was alive or dead (ميتا), young or old
Ibn Hanbal – الكافي في فقه الإمام أحمد بن حنبل – المجلد الاول [ islam, just Sick Barbaric SAVAGES never fit for Civilised Countries.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Will Qur’an 98:6, describing non-muslims as “the most vile of created beings,’: be removed by Twitter? Will the many Muslim references to Jews as “sons of apes and pigs” — as in Qur’an 5;59-60–be removed?
Rev. G says
I was banned a couple years back, for the crime of quoting the Koran. Nothing new.
revereridesagain says
I believe that every adult is responsible for what he or she believes about the claims and commands of any religion he or she chooses to follow. If a Muslim adult chooses to accept all the warped garbage “John” exposes above, then that Muslim is morally responsible for acting as it commands. “Faith” is no excuse. How is that “dehumanizing”?
If they choose to believe that a commandment is “good” solely because a god is alleged to have uttered it — that it is moral and holy to kill “unbelievers” because Allah has commanded it through his “prophet” the mad Mohammed — then, regardless of how they were raised, or what their “culture” teaches, or whether Uncle Ahmed and his three sons will come after them with scimitars if they deny it — they are responsible for choosing to accept that commandment and for any actions they may take on its account. If they murder in its name they are to be condemned. How is that “dehumanizing”?
Granted it may be overgeneralizing to assert that every Muslim believes every detail of their “holy writ”, but how is holding adult Muslims responsible for what they do believe, and acting on it, “dehumanizing”?
tgusa says
I don’t think jack twitter would want to know what is going through the minds of the millions of people who don’t use his useless service. Twitter can ban tweets all day long but that will not control peoples thoughts, just the opposite. Inquiring minds will want to know why. For the most part people don’t like to be told what they can or cannot do, I guess jack grew up in a tiny little bubble. The lefts slogan is, sticks and stones can break our bones and bombs will blow us to pieces, but words, oh those terrible words, that is what is really dangerous! Run, don’t walk, to your safe spaces lefties! Man your barricades, err, safe spaces!
In a fight for survival the left couldn’t beat a dead moth. Pathetic.
Wellington says
The distinction between free speech and hate speech continues, which “effort” can only lead to the eventual ending of free speech. Meanwhile, just since 9/11 over 35,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks have occurred worldwide and pointing this out will likely lead to a description of you as a bigot and a hater.
Madness.
David Longfellow says
Of course by “religious groups” they mean only muslims. All others are still fair game.
gravenimage says
Likely so.
Barb says
There are two Ideologies that I know of that DEHUMANIZE Religious groups!
Dehumanize meaning ” deprive of positive human qualities.
“brutal management methods and fear can dehumanize people”
The first Ideology is Evolution that claims we came from Apes – The second Ideology is from the Quran which says Jews and Christians are Apes and Pigs!
And the Quran dehumanizes women saying they only have half the brain of a man!!!!
Is Twitter going to be true to it’s new Policy and ban the Quran???
No where in the Bible are human’s dehumanized – in fact God says we were made in His image!
Barb says
Twitter will have to ban those calling white men bigot’s because that is a brutal management method of the leftists used to instil fear that can dehumanize people!
Twitter will have to ban all speech that is Anti-semitic, anti-Christians because those who oppose them use “brutal management methods and fear that can dehumanize people”
Those who choose to make white people pay more than black people at events will have to be banned by Twitter too!
Will Twitter now ban language that dehumanizes Men and Women by saying there are more than two genders?
Will Twitter now ban the languages that dehumanizes God given Marriage as between a man and a woman
Twitter will need to ban Socialism, Communism, Fascism and Antifa – they all use “brutal management methods and fear that are meant to dehumanize people”!
R Cole says
This is so laughable, as Twitter actively censors Christian content.
Came across someone’s Twitter feed, and all the images were marked as ‘might be sensitive,’ but when I clicked on them and they were all images of prayer or Bible verses. It was so unbelievable, I took a few screenshots of it.
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These tech giants are just trying to win the 2020 election and find ways to carry the Democrats’ hugely unpopular Marxist message across the finish line, by banning the things Conservatives and free thinkers tend to say – that is criticize Islam’s excesses whenever we find it – without appearing to target Trump’s supporters directly for censorship!!
Sometimes smart and dumb, merge!! Maybe the Twitter engineers should stick to (( CODING )) and not social engineering!
Joe says
If any social media company censors without clear reasons, they should no longer be allowed to use the DMCA safe harbor which means they would be sued out of existence for copyright violations of their users. The DMCA safe harbor only applies when the social media company is a transactor in the public square. Censorship is not in the public square; it is an opinion.
Andrew Kline says
Jack Dorsey uses the most valuable clause in the world – America’s 1st amendment, to become one of the most influential people (and richest) in the world and then closes the door on free speech behind him. Who are the real deplorables and traitors?
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
It looks to me like Twitter is the one who is “dehumanizing” others in the worst way possible, by eliminating conservatives and rational critics of islam as if they don’t have any value and aren’t worth existing. That’s about as dehumanizing as one can get.
“…we’re expanding our rules against hateful conduct to include language that dehumanizes others on the basis of religion….”
…by discriminating against any rational, non-religious views that are critical of the violent and insane ideas that religion may have.
Let’s take a moment to remember, Islam’s violent superstitions have been “dehumanizing” humanity for 14 centuries by denying basic human rights and liberties. So by denying critics of islam a voice the Masters of the Universe are encouraging islam’s tradition of dehumanizing behavior that exceeds anything else in history. It’s Ironic to me that rational, well meaning critics like me are deemed dehumanizers when my heartfelt intention is to eliminate the whole “dhimmi” and “kafir” dehumanization of non-muslims; and to uplift the status of women in the misogynistic culture of islam; and to eliminate the dehumanizing “honor killings” so common in the islamic world; and to abolish the humiliating and dangerous FGM that dehumanizes young girls; and to stop the murder of good people for simply voicing intelligent and well meaning ideas that reject the violence and ignorance of islam…. If you ever wondered how great evils like the Holocaust could happen then look no further than how these techno giants are behaving:just pretend that bad and violent ideas are good and eliminate those who object. Everything falls into place.
Muslim2019 says
All praises be to Allah, good news, now Allah will establish His deen even if the pagans dislike it. The Islamophobic house will fall one by one. LOL.
gravenimage says
“Muslim2019” has said before that he wants us all dead if we do not submit to his vicious creed.
keith says
Bring lots of mates and lots of body bags, you will need them.
Fritz says
Just walk away from Twitter. Let it become unimportant again. Sane people are still a majority in Western society. And let the loonies have their loony bin – 140+ characters per madness and with a blue sign for those extra “blessed” loonies.
Shea says
Yeah ynless its Christians then its FIne and OK. ! John 2:22