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Latin script is only slightly worse than Hangul (which eliminates syllabic ambiguity), but English is a horror. In sane languages using Latin script, new letters are invented or diacritics are used to represent sounds not used in Latin.


> smartphones are impossible to use if you’re restricted to Chinese characters

This isn't actually true. Handwriting recognition is much more popular than any other means of text input in Hong Kong.


Why should Twitter be coerced into publishing racist tripe?


Why should AT&T be coerced into allowing racist phone calls? Why should ISPs be coerced into hosting racist web sites or allowing racists to download racist content?

The distinction between telecom infrastructure and Twitter/FB/Google is becoming less and less clear by the year.


Your analogy is absurd. Social networks are nothing like telecom at all.

It's more like GoDaddy or NameCheap refusing to host stormfront.


If GoDaddy was the only DNS provider, would you feel the same way? At what point does the government need to step in and say the Constitution applies here?


[Citation Needed]



Use a credible source, not one that isn't above photoshopping tweets.


"Lord have mercy...white people shit"

https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/564664734268411906

"get the fuck outta here a white boy is best dj wtf?"

https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/169001733417213952

"bitch I want to tell you about your self but I'm gonna let everybody else do it I'm gonna retweet your hate!! Get her!!"

https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755218642674020352

None of the tweets were photoshopped.

Leslie Jones is racist, period. She is worse than Milo, but she is allowed to stay on twitter.

She even boosts about it:

"You guys are giving him to much energy. I was done the day I blocked him & got his ass banned. Been done and moved on. He has no space here!"

https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/833840075293212673

So stop with 'use a credible source' when these are pulled from her twitter account. There is no need for a credible source.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/20/double-standards-le...

Even breitebart links directly to her tweets.


The first amendment does not guarantee a right to a platform.


The rule against harassment.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311

> actively posting racist tweets.

[Citation Needed]


Milo was banned for repeated rule violations and getting a troll army to harass Leslie Jones. Stop trying to revise history.


Can you please post a single tweet where Milo incited people to harass Leslie Jones?

If, instead, you believe mocking and criticizing someone is inciting people to harass, do you think all popular accounts that mock and criticize others should be removed from twitter"?


All the tweets are deleted now so obviously I can't post any of them. Twitter does have access to Milo's DM history, however, and you can be banned for inciting harassment through direct message.


Surely someone with hundreds of thousands of followers inciting harassment would be archived somewhere on the Internet. Why do you think it isn't?

Any references for your DM theory?


> getting a troll army to harass Leslie Jones

How did Twitter verify this?


Twitter has access to a lot more than you guys do, that's for sure. Like his dms, his followers, and all that.

Second, his account was suspended many times. Repeatedly. Eventually they banned him.


> Twitter has access to a lot more than you guys do, that's for sure

Then why not reveal this?


You want them to reveal Milo's private DMs with other people? I think they absolutely shouldn't: Milo still has a right to privacy. I get that it makes things inconvenient for us onlookers because we can't independently verify these things to determine if Twitter is overreaching, but the alternative is exposing private information about Milo to the world. If Milo were to say "go ahead and release everything you have on me, I've got nothing to hide" that would be different.


Just state that he personally organised the harassment.


They have absolutely nothing to gain from slandering the guy.


By slander, you mean make false comments?


Easy: they don't benefit at all from it. I'm not a lawyer, but I can easily see how it's not a good idea to talk bad about someone who used your platform.

There's nothing to gain, and a lot to lose by doing so. It's kinda lose-lose for Twitter, but few people seriously care about Milo getting banned.


Milo has explicitly stated he didn't incite harassment, so the benefit would be demonstrating that the ban was not politically-based.

> it's not a good idea to talk bad

talking bad vs providing evidence of intent to incite harassment.

> but few people seriously care about Milo getting banned

Hmm, perhaps in your own bubble


Why do you care so much what Twitter does?


Ad Hom. Do 'people' care, or don't they? That was your statement.


I'm not really debating you since there isn't much to debate. I'm just curious why you care so much about what a private company allows on their platform.


I'm not really engaging with your curiosity, either.


ok.


Milo was banned for completely innocuous tweets, and a look at the tweets in question confirms as much.


True, the current President has made a significant amount of money from scams like Trump University.


Bannon has, though. He thinks the correct solutions are the ones presented in Camp of the Saints.


in what way is Camp of the Saints an endorsement of genocide?


Come on. The main idea of that book is that not massacring all the arriving brown people is a mistake.

Of course, seeing as your username has an 88 in it, I really doubt your comment was sincere.

Passages from the book: http://emptylighthouse.com/camp-saints-most-hideous-passages...

Analysis: http://theweek.com/articles/611274/dystopian-antiimmigration...


Bush didn't employ actual fascists like vitez Gorka of the Vitezi Rend, a Horthyite organization that helped the Nazis kill Jews, in his administration.


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