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. The lawsuit was revised in August 2016, providing comparisons to other telecommunications devices.
The lawsuit was dismissed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, upholding the Section 230 safe harbor, which dictates that the operators of an interactive computer service are not liable for the content published by its users. In January 2016, Twitter was sued by the widow of an American man killed in the 2015 Amman shooting attack, claiming that allowing ISIL to continually use the platform, including direct messages in particular, constituted the provision of material support to a terrorist organization. Twitter said that between mid-2015 and February 2016 it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with ISIL and related organizations, and by August 2016 had suspended some 360,000 accounts for being associated with terrorism (not all these were ISIL-related). By August 2014, Twitter had suspended a dozen official ISIL accounts, and between September and December 2014 it suspended at least 1000 accounts promoting ISIL. Twitter repeatedly shut down accounts that spread ISIL material, but new ones popped up quickly and were advertised with their old Twitter handle Twitter in return blocked those in what was called an ongoing game of Whac-A-Mole. A "Twitter suspension campaign" began in earnest in 2015, and on one day, 4 April 2015, some 10,000 accounts were suspended. Twitter frequently responds to media enquiries about suspended accounts with "We do not comment on individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons." History īetween 20, Twitter suspensions were frequently linked to ISIL-related accounts. 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. In January 2019, Twitter formally provided information on instances where governments have attempted to utilize Twitter for "foreign information operations". In addition to community guideline policy decisions, the Twitter DMCA-detection system and spam-detection system are sometimes manipulated or abused by groups of users attempting to force a user's suspension. They are told only that their accounts will not be restored, and they are told which of Twitter's rules the company claims were violated. "I'd rather not be compared to him, but yes, Pence is that guy," he said earlier this year.Users who are suspended from Twitter, based on alleged violations of Twitter's terms of service, are usually not informed which of their tweets were the cause. The character-played by Bruce Davidson-was portrayed as a reactionary, xenophobic politician with an anti-mutant agenda.ĭavidson told Inverse that the fictional Senator Kelly is comparable to a real-life Pence. Pence has also been likened to the fictional Senator Robert Kelly from the 2000 X-Men film.
#MIKE PENCE GAY MEME SERIES#
This one compares Pence to the cartoon character Race Bannon from the 1960s animated television series Jonny Quest, according to Know Your Meme. The allegory also runs a little deeper when you take Pence's anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigration stance into it, as the mutants of the X-Men franchise are often considered to be a metaphor for oppressed groups.Īnother meme known as "Mike Pence Is Race Bannon" began doing the rounds four years ago too.
The joke is that Pence resembles a stern politician or police chief who tries to outlaw the mutants in the X-Men movies and comics. Mike Pence looks like he’s announcing the X men have been made illegal.- Wet-Bigfoots???? Flying-Bigfoot? October 8, 2020