Wednesday, September 12, 2018

American Mirror: Twitter blocks posts that use phrase ‘illegal alien’ as ‘hateful content’ - I guess these are 'hate facts,' facts that must not be uttered without punishment --tma





The federal government, the U.S. Supreme Court, and lawyers across the country use the word “illegal alien” to describe immigrants who illegally enter the country, because that’s the definition in the law.
But Twitter makes its own laws, and the social media giant is now blocking folks from promoting any messages with the phrase, which its moderators apparently consider “hate speech.” ...