Twitter may suspend accounts, temporarily or permanently, from their social networking service. There have been concerted campaigns to shut down terrorist organizations and accounts that promote terrorist action. Users who are permanently or temporarily suspended from Twitter, based on alleged violations of Twitter’s terms of service, are not told which of their tweets were the cause.
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Twitter may suspend accounts, temporarily or permanently, from their social networking service. There have been concerted campaigns to shut down terrorist organizations and accounts that promote terrorist action. Users who are permanently or temporarily suspended from Twitter, based on alleged violations of Twitter’s terms of service, are not told which of their tweets were the cause. Some commentators, such as technology entrepreneur Declan McCullagh and law professor Glenn Reynolds, have criticized Twitter’s suspension and ban policies as overreaches of power. Twitter frequently responds to media enquiries about suspended accounts with \”We do not comment on individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons. \”Between 2014 and 2016, Twitter suspensions were frequently linked to ISIL-related accounts. Twitter suspended multiple parody accounts that satirized Russian politics in May 2016, sparking protests and raising questions about where the company stands on freedom of speech.
In September 2017, Twitter responded to calls to suspend US President Donald Trump’s account, clarifying that they will not do so as they consider his tweets to be \”newsworthy\”. In October 2017,Twitter posted a calendar of upcoming changes related to enforcement. Among other things, Twitter promised to provide a better experience for suspension appeals, including a detailed description of how a suspended account violated the rules. On 10 May 2019, Twitter announced that they suspended 166,513 accounts for promoting terrorism in the July–December 2018 period, stating there was a steady decrease in terrorist groups trying to use the platform owing to its \”zero-tolerance policy enforcement\”.
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