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Nov 17, 2016 10:28 PM
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HowMuchWoodCouldAWoodDuckDuckIfAWoodDuckCouldDuckWood
I really don't think Twitter gives a shit. Just the mood of the person who reviewed, assuming it wasn't done with an algorithm.
eveninthefuturenothingworks
Selective censoring of identifying info is suspicious in this post.
azazyel
IT'S A BUSINESS!!! There is no fair, only profit.
Zzzinthevalley
Well that's just shitty
korsul
I'm sure I can find 2 tweets that tell the opposite story. This one data point is meaningless.
Evulsockmonkey
Racism is wrong, noted. Thanks OP
Sokonomi
Only against black people. You cant raysism whiteys.
anthonyqld
Big difference between the 2. The one that was deleted is an egg account, so created to post abuse. The other was a normal account
andee7000
Not buying it. How did you get twitters response to both comments? You probably made the 1st comment and 2nd comment is got you suspended.
andee7000
The second comment showed a pattern of behavior.
GoNavy09
Milo gets banned because 4chan uses him as scapegoat for their attack on Leslie Jones. My friend gets actual death threats but nothing. :/
woven
Don't know what else was tweeted by those accounts. Hard to say what exactly was the basis for suspension.
karka500
yup, twitter is shit, thats really not that new
Ninjavad
Hahaha. What if we put Muslim people and Christian people?? Then gay people and straight people.
soPhuckingGladIcameOnBoard
Well that's a bunch of bullshit
Ravenbreaker
"If you ever want to know who's in power, just look at who you can't say anything negative about."
moumou0
The jews.
AMPLIFIEDFootsteps5IntenseMusic
A race and a religion- therefore protected from Racism better. Bad mouth Jews and you're automatically badmouthing both a people & religion
Atelerix10
Are you arguing that white people aren't in power in America?
Ravenbreaker
I'm not arguing about anything right now.
TheresAnUpvoteForThat
Hahah... This is a great
(no way to verify it of course, could just be clickbait)
tornBetweenWinningAndNotWinning
James James James. How about you not try to deflect white supremacy because there are black racists too
TheNewestUsername
Try not to deflect black racist because there is white supremacy too? Does this work both ways?
TheNewestUsername
Dont just downvote. Comment and explain.
DoGoodSeeGood
Yes it does work both ways. These people just don't know how to have a conversation.
babybabycakes
Never has a bias been so black and white. Lol
madgodrhinoprime
Now that's a funny comment. +1
spoonyforky
Something looks fishy about this post. Three pictures from the same screen and another from some other screen. Hmmmm
GoldenSun3DS
Probably logged into a different twitter account on a different phone to make that post, then reported it on the first one.
microwavedfrozenpizza
Why did he change the language
MyOtherAccountIsASpaceship
Important thing to remember is that Twitter just started a big purge against accounts that are alt-right. That could be a reason.
MyOtherAccountIsASpaceship
Also, they very rarely ban accounts for one report. We need to see how many more they have gotten for this to mean anything.
MyOtherAccountIsASpaceship
Maybe right side person has been tweeting lots of shit that got reported, maybe not. But we don't know so no statement can be made from this
Craicerjack
You spelled racist wrong.
MyOtherAccountIsASpaceship
I agree with you, but my opinion doesn't matter, I'm just posting what twitter said.
VideoGrimes
Yeeees... lets just ignore hundreds of years of Government Sanctioned Slavery and Racism... Double Standards are the only standards we have
CondescendingCunt
And if we check the Orient and Africa, we can see that the slave trade flourished there long before the west joined in for a few centuries.
squip
+1 for username, +1 again for comment. :) sorry they don't stack
CondescendingCunt
The Arab World was the biggest consumers of the slave trade until the 16th century -- and ever since the west banned it).
madgodrhinoprime
When do they pay reparations? Especialy for the barbarry slave trade?
CondescendingCunt
(2) - Over 18 million Africans are estimated to have died due to the Arabic slave trade. India was a major player in the slave trade too.
FFSwherearemydragons
soo that makes it ok that USA had black slaves? Also let's not forget the lynching and segragation that came after...
CondescendingCunt
I never said that. But blaming only whites for slavery during human history is intellectually dishonest. Racism is wrong regardless of race.
FFSwherearemydragons
Whites aren't blamed for slavery during human history but only for that particular slavery trade. I wouldn't even blame you for that (1/2)
FFSwherearemydragons
The fact is, this is part of YOUR history (if you're American). The arabic slave trade is part of THEIR history (middle eastern). (1/2)
CondescendingCunt
But the Arabs enslaved black people. Countless dozens of millions. Hence the relevance. Also, what makes you think the tweeter is American?
FFSwherearemydragons
(2/2) you can't excuse what happened in your country just because it happened to other countries..
BattloidKouji
I would need to know more about this situation to pass a judgement. one thing I've learned from this election is that there are too many (1)
BattloidKouji
people trying to force a narrative with things that look right on the surface, but if you dig deeper they start to fall apart. There's a (2)
BattloidKouji
reason Oxford chose "post-truth" as the word of the year this year. 2016 has been a mess of lies and narratives from start to finish. (3)
BattloidKouji
Hell, blatantly fake news sites got more facebook views and shares in the last three months than legitimate news sources. what the hell. (4)
StaIin
You say that as if "legitimate media" is 100% truthful.
humanelectrictorch
As for more to the story, from what I can see, there is nothing linking the first column's tweet and e-mail together. Could have been 1/2
humanelectrictorch
Twitter's response to an entirely different "report".
SixpennySmoke
Confirmation bias is a hell of drug.
AlkeneThiol
I am so sick of confirmation bias. Nobody independent verified anything anymore if they agree with it. And then it just pushes them deeper
SeaHutch
The account on the right is clearly not someone's actual account, with the icon still an egg, so I'd wager they were trolling.
AMPLIFIEDFootsteps5IntenseMusic
My icon is an egg- it's neutral?...l hate trolls...l
toomanyostriches
I received rape and death threats from multiple people at one point. FB bot that sifts through reports cleared it as no violation.
phoenixmask
I flagged My Little Pony porn and FB bot sifted it as clean.
MrPredator
Gotta love automated bullshit. Doesn't require a person to hold your mouth open and force it down your throat, saying its your fault.
vauhtihirmu
Blatant racism and death threats against politicians don't show up violations either.
LegitimacyProject
I honesty think it's because thousands of edgy kids make those threats daily. I don't think they consider them real threats at this point ;(
toomanyostriches
It would be better if it were edgy kids. It was most adult dudes threatening to find out where I lived and shoot me in the head and rape me.
thecolonels
Watch black mirror S3E6 "hated in the nation"
InsertUsernameJokeHere
I have seen gore porn and snuff films on FB get reported, and have the report "staff" say the posts don't violate community standards.
UnPossibleMagician
For some fucking reason I only see that shit on FB too, pretty sure ISIS upload their shit there too. Like, who knew it was so hardcore?
UnPossibleMagician
Really it's inhumanly possible to sift through all the fuck that goes on around facebook which is why auto-bots are needed.
UnPossibleMagician
But simultaneously, I'd at-least like chumps to stop sharing and spreading animal-cruelty into myself and others feeds, thank-fucking-you
ekzeko
block the people who do it. Be pro active mate.
Goronhead
But expose one lady nipple on there and it's ban city.
yinxuu
Wtf that's messed
TaintedSpuds8
Power Bottom
TheGame364
Strange
Dethleff
Bottom
Hetuni
Top ;)
hashtaggobucks
Left.
pizzarollsandoreos
down.
KarenFromTheHOA
Top
GoldenSun3DS
And
Aspidochelone
4-th Dimensional shape
TheJzoli
Charm
ScotchBingeington
I don't think many people will understand your cleverness sir, but I like it
TheJzoli
Good to see people appreciate my little sciency joke, and actually joined in.
AcidOPhilus
Appreciate? Join in? You're a God now. You made my day using quantum physics.
AcidOPhilus
Holy shit I can't believe a Quark joke gathered that much momentum on here.
IOnceOwnedMoonMoonButOnceHeTriedToLickMyBallsAndRanAwayIMissHim
up.
yinxuu
XD
Nutinbutbootson
Thank you. I had no clue where that was going.
Toothlessgiraffe
Clearly it's going up
coldmeatychuds
Weirdly enough, facebook doesn't have bots. They have Filipinos that have to determine if it violates rules or not in less than 10 seconds.
coldmeatychuds
Source- NPR
Thesavagehamster
I also read NPR
vjven
How do we verify left hand side? Looks made up
HnngRightInTheFeels
Recently Twitter isn't banning people who say racist things towards white people, but are if you say something racist about minorities.
mastikator
You can't. All you can do is always report everything that is actually racist.
Justress
The top right frame looks like a different phone entirely.
Vicidsmartv2
But both on the right match as the username matches
Justress
Right one looks real, left one looks bit false (Bold font, Just the "Hello,")
Mrspookywasagoodboy
Help! Help! I'm being reppresed. Come see the violence inherent in the system!
shakexandxbake
Repressed?
MyLifeisaComplicatedDrinkingGame
Twitter is a service you opt into using. They don't need to give you free speech. It just sucks they don't.
realmdweller
Well I didn't vote for'em.
elliedoodles
Bloody peasant!
Bukkhockey
That's a dead give away
wubbapanda
You think you deserve to be king just because some watery tart lobbed a scimitar at you?
farnation
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. 1/2
farnation
2/2 Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
jazzhandpanda
You saw it didn't you!?
KramervsKramervsPredator
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
dogelad
TheHourGrowsLate
Does...does nobody know the history of the United States? In particular, the role of black people in it? Nobody understands that context?
Craicerjack
What you mean I cant set up a fake twitter account to abuse black people without getting banned. Like, thats so not fair.
TheBlueGenie
Well, people not from the United States for instance
eazolan
Not really no. You don't get a free pass by being racist to only certain races.
TheHourGrowsLate
I would say that, in America in particular, there is a historical context which makes a white man saying that he hates black people very...
TheHourGrowsLate
...actions of our ancestors, and none of us can claim hurt on their behalf, the wounds of slavery remain unhealed to this day, and....
TheHourGrowsLate
...different from a black man saying that he hates white people. There just is. And while none of us can be held responsible for the...
TheHourGrowsLate
....thus, while the remarks in question are nominally the same, they have depths of meaning that are incredibly different.
eazolan
Sure. But here's the thing. Racism isn't about people reacting and feeling bad.
TheHourGrowsLate
I'm not sure what you mean.
eazolan
...you don't know what Racism is?
AVoiceOfReason
It doesn't matter what your grandfather suffered. You should not be allowed to be racist. If you disagree, I don't really care so.
AVoiceOfReason
Actually, I'll rephrase - You should be allowed to be racist (privately, in your thoughts, just not spread hate speech. And that includes(1)
AVoiceOfReason
not spreading hate speech about white people. I'm not sorry at all if that bothers you, TheHoursGrowsLate.
TheHourGrowsLate
Here is what I would ask you: do you realize that there are millions of African Americans alive today who, by law, could not vote when...
TheHourGrowsLate
...people who experienced incredible racism as a facet of state and federal law.
TheHourGrowsLate
...they were young? I mean, we're not talking about some distant and far removed age of discrimination, we're talking about living...
TurtBurglar
THANK YOU. Why the fuck don't people realize this?!
ProgeriaProstitutes
The history of the US has nothing to do with twitter rules
squip
Irrelevant. Racism is racism, and you don't rid the world of it by continuing it.
TheHourGrowsLate
So, you're saying that you don't understand the historical context of why black people may have beef with white people, but not the reverse?
squip
Can you not read? That isn't at all what I said.
TheHourGrowsLate
What you said is true, in a complete vacuum. However, do you think that black people have animosity toward white people for no reason?
squip
That isn't relevant. "Sins-of-our-fathers" defense of racism is dead on arrival.
TheNewestUsername
How about the role of the irish or chinese in it?
jackbinimbul
As someone who is Irish and Sioux, where's mah reparations?
PillaPlease
That matters as well as Native Americans, Japanese etc. But who cares because Betty Jean's office isn't segregated anymore & that aint right
TurtBurglar
What do you mean?
TheNewestUsername
That the were also slaves and indentured servants. Also the japanese americans during ww2 were put in concentration camps.
TheNewestUsername
If i lose" "the media is against me" deny deny deny etc etc etc! That racist prick should have lost.
Sprixxen
Internment camps is a better word imo. Comparing them to actual concentration camps is just wrong.
TheNewestUsername
Ok so hitler had internment camps. Whatever helps you sleep.
TheNewestUsername
Its not just black people that are oppressed, they just are loudest. Thats the same reason trump won. He whined loudest. "Its rigged if i(1)
TheHourGrowsLate
...person in the above example with a Japanese person.
TheHourGrowsLate
...during WWII, and I will point out that my argument would stand, because I would maintain my argument if you replaced the black...
TheHourGrowsLate
...those who came here via becoming indentured servants. Also, America has formally apologized for the treatment of Japanese-Americans...
TheHourGrowsLate
There were never Irish slaves. Also, indentured servitude was voluntary, and temporary, and passed no stigma to the descendants of...
xHughJassx
Dude you need to pull a Hillary on that inbox... seriously almost 10,000 emails?
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xHughJassx
Hillary?
Favri
I currently have 3,307 unread in my personal inbox. Just 14 in my work one.
jeffeljefe
Oh you ain't seen nuttin' yet...
TheAngryBang
I'm up to 30k myself
SlicedSides
Who deletes their emails anymore? You can search emails, and just about everyone gets live email updates to their phones.
AMPLIFIEDFootsteps5IntenseMusic
And all found to be completely fine. Twice now.
Nicholascagewithacoathangerandnicklebackalbums
Yeah! I at least keep mine a reasonable number. https://gyazo.com/b15e37a8e9df3e25a9166cc28b76c174
haggi
When white people start being hung from trees and put in prison at appalling rates then you can bitch. Commence down votes.
nope6699
What is normal?
tjnohooker
Mine are like that too. I hid the app in a folder so I don't constantly see the bubble reading 274,739,026. All hail Gmail!
Zany1738
At 32,443, I've been working on it for a while
jogthejewelsquickly
ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TunkkisOfFinland
Yeah
circlebreaker
Free pornography trials are a hell of an addiction, I guess.
phoenixinflight
Pffff. I have a friend with 43,000 and counting.
julidecomu
My boss has 203.000 unread mails, I couldn't believe it... I constantly need to have 0
xHughJassx
Sorry your boss lost the election?
READBIO
pashka555
Send him sausages! We need to hit 100k and see how that iOs acts in that case! Does it make a red hat for an icon?
pens9192
And 30% battery. Not crtical yet but still
eskimowins
Why would you ever delete emails? This isn't hotmail in 1998 where you have data limits
xHughJassx
My work account actually was limited to 4 GB. That allowed me to get to about 7k before I got constant warnings and had to delete daily.
PhilFromAccounting
It's not about deleting, necessarily - those are unread. That said I delete most emails after reading them.
eskimowins
Who has time to read all their emails? A quick look at the subject will tell you if you need to open it.
xHughJassx
Hello, my boss. *sends email to boss* Boss: *only reads subject* what is ___? Me: It says in the email *highlights text*
xHughJassx
It is stupid how many times this happens. I've learned. Now my subject lines are full on sentences.
SlappySamsonite
Unread emails!
dogelad
What emails?
cmfler
Please keep this comment at 666. Salem truly is a devil in diguise
TakeOutorPizza
I laughed so damn hard when I saw this cat
donkeymoney
Yeah dude, clean off the email address from the post!
OneDivineEquine
It felt soooo right to be able to be the 666th upvote for this comment.
CptJero
For real though, scrub your email address off the post. Someone on here will hack it.
xHughJassx
You should be over 10,000 shortly if that's your real email address there
DetectiveSherlockHolmes
And that's when he knew... he fucked up
JumballWotersun
RIP
detectiveperalta
If imgur is like me, then everyone will be too lazy to send you anything
Samaedag
You mean you have LESS than 10,000?? You heathen.
xHughJassx
My work email had almost 7k, but I was hitting my 4gb limit every other day. I just went back to may and deleted everything prior
xHughJassx
To the month of May
DankMimesRUs
There are two kinds of people in this world...
fleeingwithDatruth
I'm at 21,000 and adding
xHughJassx
*fainting intensifies*
ThisIsSteel
I was in the same boat. I broke down 2 months ago and spent a couple hours deleting them. It felt great!
Tofubutton
I just make new email addresses and abandon the old one lol
slappyhamsalads
I'm at 22,269 atm.
SrDave
Here at 64,342.
Silentmatten
Y'all need digital jesus
GdSvThQn
I would just delete my email account and start new with another.
Thenan
I have over 80k, had the same email since 2000 and I don't think I've ever deleted anything.
2flower
I know a couple dudes with 40 gigs worth of emails.
TheWhiteHouseChiefOfStaff
Just shy of 159,000 in my work email
Vivificus
I heard she was looking for a job!
KuddleWumpous
I thought you could see my phone for a sec.
HolyShitZoom
Pull a Hillary. Just a heads up, I'm gonna steal that.
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
Delete that*
HerbieRobinson
Already used it at work ;)
lachlangor
me too.
BuffaloBillCosby
I just broke 30,000..
tomyironmane
Hillary broke 30,000 in her trash can.
DotSlashNatalie
KlaatuVaradaNicto
2spooky5me
i'm at 13,000
Laxeus
Im at almost 55000 lol /a/ABCHk
PawlyDizzle
Holy fack, mate. Why?
SuperPickle17
am I the only one that constantly deletes emails and archive important ones? :(
Laxeus
I do on my work email, but ive had this one for over 10 years now i believe.
FunJokeGoesHere
The spam coming into that email address must be impressive.
tomyironmane
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/727/910/577.gif
DonaldBlakeMD
With only 43 spam
Laxeus
Haha yep.
tomyironmane
spam auto-deletes after 30 days and the filter can be a bit dodgy.
Laxeus
Exactly!
HillarysEmail
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xHughJassx
Huzzah!
xHughJassx
This was actually pretty great. I wish I could share some more updoots
GILE5
There may have been more to the "participating in abusive behaviour" than that one tweet. I doubt it's as clean cut as this suggests.
dancealittlestranger
I feel you.
fish1552
But both accts should have had SOME action taken, even if a temp ban. The fact they did nothing shows the bias.
GILE5
Twitter suspend if the "primary purpose of the reported account is to harass or send abusive messages", which was the case on the right.
killer10347
I'm pretty sure this was an intentional experiment and therefore neither account had anything else.
GILE5
Not sure about that. The account on the left got multiple likes and retweets from its followers, which would suggest it was established.
wolfostrophe
and why would you put up those tweets several days apart? Poor methods for an experiment.
Craicerjack
plus the handle was blacked out
Anonsy
Considering they still use an egg avatar, good chance it was a fresh account
GILE5
A throwaway one set up just to abuse people anonymously? I agree.
Anonsy
A throwaway one set up for the purposes of a test that has shown alarming results.
Craicerjack
An alarming test? A fake account set up to abuse black people was banned. You find that alarming?
GILE5
If that's the case, and it might be, it's a very flawed test.
Anonsy
Flawed how? Of course they could repeat the test and provide more details on how it was run, but what's inherently flawed?
witsd
I've reported far worse anti-Muslim stuff on Facebook and been told that they thought it was fine. Even if this shows the whole story…
ChrisGibbons
The moderators on Facebook don't report back to Sarkisian.
Lobuttomize
Except this example isn't facebook so you can't say my personal experience means this has no meaning
IPutAHexOnYou4c6f7665206d65
i've had profile pictures taken down because my thighs were showing (wearing a skirt) for nudity but when i reported a picture that was
IPutAHexOnYou4c6f7665206d65
captioned "for when she doesn't want the D" and showed a woman naked, bound to a bed, bend over.. it was 'fine'.
VonRichtofenlw
Muslim is an ideology not a race. Not comparable.
TheSecondOfHisName
Lena Dunham had a tweet that said all white men needed to die to make society better. Reported it and heard nothing.
SleepWorkWatchTVConsumeObey
I reported a video of a kitten being blowtorched to death and they thought it was fine.
LegitimacyProject
We're do you guys find this stuff o_0
cartmanstits
Anti Muslim isn't near as controversial as anti black, maybe only because we have far more blacks than Muslims but it's more ok to hate them
antihaze
Maybe different rules regarding who you are vs what you believe. You can't change being black/white but Islam is just a set of beliefs.
BeerTaxer
Some guy approached me on the bus, telling me muslims like me should burn in hell and the middle east should be nuked.. im not even muslim -
BeerTaxer
In other words, he based it on what i am, not what i believe
witsd
"Facebook removes hate speech, which includes content that directly attacks people based on their: race, ethnicity, religious affiliation…"
Kittenswithasteamedcoat
Reporting content on social media is a terribly fickle process. I once reported someone beating a dog for fun in a vid. "Not a violation."
sumowoman
I reported an identity theft on FB. "Not a violation". The fuck?!
witsd
A fake profile that was dripping with porn. 'Nope, that's fine'.
furriephillips
Did you report it to the RSPCA?
witsd
…– which I doubt – social media moderation is fundamentally inconsistent, so this on its own is practically meaningless.
neanderbob
Then just take a look at the countless cases of twitter shadow banning or outright banning conservatives.
Sauroctonus
Who knows what kind of person reviews the complaint? And if they mishandle it, will their employer know?
Mankytoes
I bet someone could create the opposite of this if they had a different agenda.
Sandyundertones
I also pretty much just assume that everything that I see on social media is either a fabrication or misconstrued.
applerazmataz
But but... I want to choose a stance and characterize whole groups of people only based on one data point!
SleeperXib
Two data points makes it real science!
Vicidsmartv2
3*
su007
One is twitter Germany? They may be less tolerant of that sort of thing considering past history.
VBot
But clearly social context means nothing
melotprieks
Stop making up silliy excuses, lib!
VigorousButtstuff
Nothing says "Let's avoid the tyranny of fascism" quite like more fascism.
Mankytoes
Moderation is not fascism
strawberrymaker
Think both are from the same person by looking at the inbox counter
inmusicutrust
Heard a report about this recently, FB(I imagine its similar a twitter) contracts their flag reviews out to a company, who is expected to1/?
inmusicutrust
Review and make a determination in under 10 seconds, this pace leads to a LOT of discrepancies in policy and mistakes.
Teberon
This company is based in Warsaw, Poland
DevonGronka
Free speech and hate speech laws are a whole lot different in Western Europe.
anubisfike
No, the person who screenshotted it is just using Twitter in German.
AlwaysTrustTheManInABigWhiteVan
After being less tolerant of some sorts of people.
TheOtherAlan
Twitter is a third party but, publicly traded company. They don't have to respect anyone's right to free speech and do not promise to do so.
jewsruntheworld
Immigrants?
ukarage
The original is twitter US. Considering past history, they should be less tolerant too .....
CondescendingCunt
Both are.
Placentaur
Someone try it on US twotter
onlyhereforthepr0n
No, double standards run rampart exactly because of what happened in the second world war. There are a lot of cases where there is a 1/2
onlyhereforthepr0n
2/3 german shame bonus for people from non european backgrounds, going so far that honour killings might be punished less than a normal
onlyhereforthepr0n
3/3 murder, because it's culture in the perpetrators homeland (sorry for wrong numbering, new to this)
Alexth3mage
The location of the user is irrelevant to the rules of conduct for twitter because it is an international corporation I believe
sdlabs
Corporation might be international, but services are localised and tailored per market area legislation.
Alexth3mage
Ah, well in US there have been heavy banning of big name accounts for use of words like faggot so I think they're being serious about it (1)
Alexth3mage
In a majority of countries, it's going to be interesting where they draw the line between free speech and unacceptable harassment (2)
hashervagineer
How dare you use facts against Conservatives! Don't you know they are immune?
JustAnotherFurry
Actually, we aren't so focused on racism against poc's than the US simply because we do not have so many and we have no "black culture" 1/2
greenwedel
True. Here some prefer to just be racist against all south-easterners alike, no matter the race. Unless Foreigner is a race now.
JustAnotherFurry
so most problems don't apply here in the first place. and no, twitter is not german, also they source out the reviewing work. 2/2
Simsimillia
Laws are a bit more strict here in Germany. Stuff that is protected as free speech in US is forbidden in Germany (like Nazi Symbolism)
thehealingpiss
"fuck white people" seems nazi enough.
InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
i dont think that applies unless there's nazi symbolism involved, but its not like i tried doing hate speech recently.
GundalfTheGay
Yup, more regulations because of that...thing that happened..
spetcnaz
If I am not mistaken there is a special police unit that listens to all the new metal rock CDs to make sure it is not a Nazà propaganda.
JustAnotherFurry
Every song before it is released, not just metal. Just as every video, game and so on, it is for any illegal content not just nazi 1/2
JustAnotherFurry
stuff and it is not done by the police but different organisations, mostly for youth protection purposes similiar to ESRB just mandatory 2/2
LowSpeedHighDrag
So when movies and games based in EU at that time-frame come out, are the antagonists censored in some way?
TUMBLINGDOWNTUMBLINGDOWNTUMBLINGDOWN
American here, how do most German citizens feel about those laws?
cartmanstits
It's funny Americans seem noticeably not very racist compared to the rest of the world. Yet it's like the number one topic here
cartmanstits
And yeah I understand it's still a problem 100 percent it just seems like we're pretty accepting like you can't outlaw racism unfortunately
nekobaka
you guys just voted in an openly racist president who's going to make a white supremacist / anti-semitic his Chief Strategist (Bannon).
skwint
uuuuuh ... as a member of the rest of the world no they bloody don't :p
blahtotheblahblah
Idk, I still remember one of the main reasons behind Brexit being the 'scary Muslims' and protests in Germany about immigrants.
skwint
Some dislike of Islam is plain ol' xenophobia, and some is actually justified. The former makes the latter hard to talk about.
IronGravyBoat
As an American who's lived across the nation. This place is really racist.
cartmanstits
Dude were very racist I don't support it at all. But I really thought most places were even more racist against one or more races
DavosSeaworthTheOnionKnight
Honestly it's about the same..the difference is America has never has a very uniform culture unlike Europe. Of course Europe is changing
ChefExcellence
Out of all the cultural clusterfucks on the planet, Europe's is one of the least uniform, where as Americans mostly share similar culture.
ProgeriaProstitutes
Europe doesn't have a uniform culture at all
cartmanstits
Yeah it's kind of a shame Germany is weighed down like that given that generation is mostly lost as of now.
Karilyn
There's still a fair number of weird and scary counterculture kids that long for "the glory days of Germany," which keeps Germans on guard.
nekobaka
I really don't feel weighted down by swasticas being banned. Maybe some nazis do, but who cares.
Simsimillia
It bothers me because they have to be removed out of games and the Devs sometimes do a lazy job (Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway)
chicagochick
How I wish my country had that same perspective. But most equate freedom of swaticas with freedom of speech like fighting for gay rights.
RustyCatheter
Are you saying there's no controversial history involving black people in the US?
korsul
Germany does not have free speech the way the US does. You can't haphazardly talk about Nazis like we can praise confederates.
SuperPickle17
confederates didn't go on mad killing sprees either. So...
korsul
Even if, so what? But turns out they killed a LOT of black people. The US just doesn't admit it like Germany does.
IshitOnWindshields
Know they admit. They don't care. There is a difference
JustAnotherFurry
Yeah, that is like the only thing in germany that is not seen as free spech, glorifying the nazis and using their symbols.
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pdxenburg
They would in Germany
korsul
That's irrelevant to your previous comment. My reply just explains why yours was wrong.
Euronyme
You haven't checked then.
definitelynotaseagull
Why, what happened in Germany?
Jusmar
Sieg heil
SurpriseFatGuy
Nothing! EVERYONE WAS ON VACATION!
Sarcastonaut
The only acceptable answer.
aPokal
They voted an failed artist into chancellorship. He recovered the economy by highly taxing on the neighboring nations.
SomewhatAsian
Lets just say that some people didn't get to join their family in the ashtray
Dapro1
That's fucked up
Flashback0180
Hitler was gastric
popejubal
They beat Brazil so badly that everyone is extra careful about how they talk now.
thehealingpiss
Germans thought they know best and killed a lot of jews, slavs, germans and others. Now they think they know best and ban people on twitter
Terminal56
Let me tell you a story all about how Germany got flipped turned upside down...
induren
Oh honey...
TheSacrificialButter
Nothing. Everyone went on vacation.
AnonymousCouch
PC culture has consumed the government
OGsatan
AlwaysTrustTheManInABigWhiteVan
He's going to be so upset when he hears about Harambe
odraencoded
They won the cup.
kirmokum
oh, nothing, just a little scamp running amok.
Chadss
NOTHING
Chadss
NOTHING AT ALL
TheAdditionalPylon
Worlds worst Pyjama party.
arturistan
said Gary Jhonson
arturistan
Johnson
Craftylefty47
Nothing happened. Tea was served.
MichaelScar
HA
Kellosian
A small problem, but it's all reich now.
diamondman00
http://imgur.com/Ce0yN
ProperArborist
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
unkoluke
Best comment I've ever seen
KyleBeach
Lets just say they're still paying off that gas bill.
soMuchHappy
Savage
8Times8Plus5
kjb72
GrizzlyWicks
nah they found a big pile of watches and jewellery dating back to the 30s should be enough to pay it and leave some change
SuperPickle17
They should kept their nuclear plants going... Dirty bastards.
definitelynotaseagull
Oh no! Is everyone ok?
VaginaOrchard
Except the ones that were not, yes
MrWoodchip
I'm using this answer in future.
TheyCallMeATree
actually im fairly certain they have paid off their debt.. or was that for ww1
GoodSameeritan
Arcian
Came here for this. +1
Smugglecats
Terrible, but hilarious I approve of this sort of humor.
OnlyDeadMenKnowPeace
Laughed so hard my poo came out easier.
DickWhiskers
Check ur inbox
TheGuyWhoBeatsHisMeat
DiscipleOfAnorak
What a gif
badlyphotoshoppedpictureofkenboneeveryday
None of my buisness
girlgimmiethatWOOWOO
DedicatedGraph
I bet that tea was made just Reich!
stickalwayswins
Oh jew
JohnnyTitelips
Although few outside Germany are aware of this, Germany does not actually allow freedom of speech. If it offends someone, it's illegal.
JustAnotherFurry
Wrong. Read the Böhmermann "poem"? That shit would mean prison time in germany. You aren't allowed to glorify the nazis, heil hitler or 1/?
JustAnotherFurry
to use Nazi symbolic. The rules mostly also apply for any forbidden organisaion, like terrorist groups and such. besides that, 2/?
JustAnotherFurry
germany allows anyone to openly voice his opinion. It is illegal to insult each other, so watch your mouth in public and you are fine 3/3
CaptainRaiN
Thats actually not true. Freedom of speech is promoted, insults (to police and judges), malicious gossip, hatespeech are restricted.
CaptainRaiN
You have to respect the human dignity. If that restricts your oppinion... maybe you should think about it a second time anyways.
JohnnyTitelips
That's not freedom of speech. If you can't insult someone, you don't have free speech.
AtmaWepn
Sounds like Germany has the right idea. Hate speech shouldn't be covered by free speech.
JohnnyTitelips
That's absolutely ridiculous, for one thing. And for another, it's not just hate speech. Like if I called you a cunt, I could get fined.
JustAnotherFurry
Yeah, insults are punishable, not offending someone. I can say that your whole ideology is shit, that your beliefs are uttermost wrong 1/2
HighFunctioningAlcoholic
So who decides what hate speech is? You? Me? Pretty sure Hitler wouldnt have been OK with people praising Jews.
Cheatcodek
You must remember that there is no common consensus on what hate speech is, and that it may not try to be harmfu but simply seen as harmful.
JustAnotherFurry
Also we do not have a "hatespeech" law, we have a insult law...and "volksverhetzung" wich means actually calling for violant action 1/2
githknight
It is the prevalence of this type of double standard that put Trump in office. Do you want a 2nd term, this is how you get a 2nd term?
Irishda
Psst, you're probably not getting the whole story about why their account is banned. Ironically, that's what put Trump in office
dogelad
Zoruda
IAmYourGodNow
I mean, I'll know whether or not I want a second term in 4 years or so.
HadIThoughtOfABetterNameYoudBeReadingItHere
"..in 2 years or so. " FTFY
fencerman
The fact that Twitter is a shitty, inconsistent platform? It's not like they ban people over actual threats anyways.
boywiththehappypenis
feb29thismycakedaylol
Lets see how the first one goes
Mythmatic
It's not that simple
Tyrannotron
Without knowing the whole story, or even verifying if it's true, it's pretty hard to say.
dawnawakensyoursoul
-1
MiniDitka5
+1
PillaPlease
How that doesn't strike you as completely self centered pathetic is amazing.
Ninjainslippers
No, it's people getting offended by people getting offended that put Trump in office.
mousemarie94
Its actually super unregulated. Just listened to a story on this, op is cherry picking for sure
Allrighty
Holding people to the same standards when they are in unequal situations isn't fair.
githknight
Yes it is. This is the central failing of moral relativism.
MrRandom314159
In the same way minorities believe Republicans don't care for them, the central states believe that Democrats don't care about them. Plus,
MrRandom314159
In the way we percieved Trump as racist and misogynistic, they percieved Hillary as a dodgy rapist defending corporate monster.
bobbyp21
Dude, there won't even be a country left for a second term HEHEHEHE
tehzpoon
It's us paying attention to things that mention Trump and/or his shenanigans that put him in office. MEDIA RATINGS ARE OUR FAULT
CookingBaconDrunkAndNaked
well, I mean, for all we know Trump is going to be an amazing President. Can we not prejudge his job as President..like, please.
DickDraper
You know imgur is a garbage liberal safe space when your comment got upvoted 715 times lmao
mrskeItal
It's about the race not Clinton vs Trump, white people haven't been historically disenfranchised so stop trying to equate the races
githknight
So you are arguing for inequality. For how many generations should one pay for the sins of the father?
mrskeItal
white people dont experience systemic racism today. I absolutely do not advocate blaming people for their ancestors' actions
glutenfreetoast
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/14/election-marks-end-americas-racial-detente/ An article on the topic, albeit incomplete imo.
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Glidingboulder
That article confused me so much, not sure if i should be mad or laugh at it.
kaztas
That article kind of described my thoughts.
Treblaine
So basically... Trump is MRSA, an anti-biotic resistant pathogen because we misused and abused the cure so it's now worthless.
Treblaine
There's one problem with this, it presumes Trump did better than Romney when he didn't, he did worse. It's just Hillary did almost as bad.
glutenfreetoast
That's one reason I said it was incomplete. Hillary also started from a 10 foot deep hole due to baggage from the 90's.
Treblaine
It was my blind spot, I just presumed she was inherently highly electable, without really thinking about it.
ginnigan13
Like your mom, it goes deeper. But yeah. The smug assumed superiority is killing civility and free exchange of ideas
StaIin
Upvote purely for first sentence.
Penguinsruletheworld
The liberal ideal is primarily superior. Doesn't mean we don't have our own morons.
githknight
Progressiveism is anathema to Liberalism, but almost no one seems to be able to use the term Liberalism correctly. 2/2
RaynWisp
The only thing on this post that made me laugh. Bravo.
ginnigan13
#1: you didn't even hint as to why. #2 indeed. I see the left more concerned with speech policing and failed social welfare. Not good.
dogsi
Except most "liberals" today are not liberal. Liberals is about social freedom, not oppressive speech and behaviour laws.
Penguinsruletheworld
"Doesn't mean we don't have our own morons" Can't really read well can you?
Ssssssssssss
Ironically, the people scaring most of us away from the liberal party are more fascist than a lot of the members of the Right Wing.
elecvette
No sir, you get a 2nd term by not voting in the primaries and letting 2 unqualified contestants into our reality show.
DrKriegersClone
Realistically, there's only going to be one competitive primary. The Republicans won't likely contest an incumbent for a 2nd term.
RocketRodster
1980 Carter vs Ted Kennedy
elecvette
Unless he is as stupid as he sounds. his 100 day plan is pretty fuckin sound, and he doesn't go after religion, guns or any of our rights.
DrKriegersClone
The scale of bringing back tariffs that he's talking about is almost sure to cause a worldwide recession, that will include the USA.
DrKriegersClone
Though that will probably take longer than 100 days to kick in.
elecvette
So, it's ok with you that we pay tariffs to export, don't charge tariffs on imports and can't be competitive in global markets? Gotta change
AliveMou5e
I don't understand this comment. Can someone kindly explain please?
PillaPlease
S/he is ignorant and unable to process historical & current events & accept that people are suffering from more than hurt feelings.
Maelwaedd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs
KyleBeach
TL;DR of canadayeash: These days minorities can treat whites like they are evil pieces of shit, if a white person disagrees with a minority
KyleBeach
for any reason? Racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobe comments ensue.
DrKriegersClone
Twitter behaving like this is validating the perception that PC has gone too far, which is one of the main things Trump played on to win.
DrKriegersClone
(assuming this even isn't just photoshopped)
ITradeNewds
Nah Twitter pulled some bullshit report strategy recently that's been banning alt right voices. They got some stupid double standards
DrKriegersClone
I'm perfectly OK with banning neo-nazis. But they should be applying the same standards to other hate speech.
Violethostel
I feel like you're trolling. But what the heck I'll just lose fake points. In North America minority groups are becoming quite powerful. ->>
Penguinsruletheworld
HAHAHAHAHAH having control over twitter doesn't make you powerful in the slightest. But sure upvote that stupidity.
Violethostel
Which in itself is great. However, when loud minorities frame the situation as a struggle against white people instead of for minorities -->
Violethostel
It creates animosity. See, the average white person feels compassion for minorities but they don't feel privileged. There were enough -->>
Violethostel
Hate spewed by small loud groups of minorities that the majority felt threatened enough to elect Trump despite clear reasons not to. ->>
FauxFargoth
I get hating double standards like this, but electing Trump is going to do jack-shit to stop it, and will probably make it worse.
RocketRodster
You get it!
burley007
Knowing that this got trump elected might help fix the problem
HampsterButt
Did your crystal ball tell you that or what?
FauxFargoth
Trump has no ability to stop double-standards in media. Unless you want some sort of Totalitarian ruler (not that that'd work either).
FauxFargoth
2/2 isn't exactly how you fix that problem.
FauxFargoth
Like I said, I understand wanting it to stop, but electing a narcissistic con-man surrounded by theocrats and white nationalists 1/2
LordSithis
I agree that it won't stop it, but the election is people's response to it.
honeywheresmypaaaants
Sure as hell beats electing Hillary "business as usual" "screw the middle class" "let's rape them with healthcare reform" Clinton.
DONALDTRUMPUSA
... I would not be opposed to a Trump 2nd term. Unlike a lot of people, I actually read his plans, and they're actually very good.
chunkums
I read them and think they're awful. Disregard for climate science, huge decrease in tax revenue coupled with massive spending increases.
chunkums
R congress isn't going to let him do tariffs or anything like that. Anything that increases revenue will be axed by them.
goingtochipotlewitharistotle
I've read them too and drew the opposite conclusion.
chunkums
What part of his plans do you like? Of those, which will make it through Republican congress?
Penguinsruletheworld
You're an idiot then. Because his plans still have no merit. And his cabinet picks are objectively not cleaning said swamp.
ThatEdward
This. Even failed at the blind trust thing. Blatantly lied about saving jobs at Ford earlier today, too. It's a post-truth world we live in.
Penguinsruletheworld
Most of them he can't even implement as president he needs congress/senate to do that. But again you're an idiot. So you wouldn't know that.
DONALDTRUMPUSA
See, calling people like me idiots is how you got Trump elected.
Dusknght
You do realize Republicans hold both of those right? No because you're an idiot, so you wouldn't know that.
Penguinsruletheworld
Never stated that congress/senate WOULDN'T do it. But he can't implement them the laws have to be passed by congress. Dipshit.
ThatEdward
Can you count? They don't literally have /every/ seat. To say.. repeal Obamacare, they need 60 votes. They don't have the power to do it.
channelranger
What specifically? Of the concrete plans I've heard from him (like the wall), they all seem a little... unrealistic.
ThatEdward
Reps and campaign staff are already walking back the wall statements. Gingrich called it something like 'a nice campaign device'.
channelranger
So what ideas does he have that you like, in short terms?
ThatEdward
Absolutely fucking nothing. The guy is going to fuck over everything done to stop climate change, touts torture as something good and lies.
madgodrhinoprime
Well the wall would have concrete, if that makes ya feel better.
channelranger
It doesn't, actually.
LiterallyJustHereForThoseRecipeGifs
Except where his tax reform only helps the wealthy and increases our dept
ChickenFingerFingers
It would help all, but higher earners would receive more back. Just not sure how you do tax breaks with our fed budget.
lovelyboredom
His tax plan increases the deficit by a lot. So it is about how much people care about that I guess?
chunkums
Pair that decreased revenue with a huge anti-immigration force, massive infrastructure spending (good btw), defense spending increases etc.