Tuesday, January 29, 2019

"Learn to Code" is "hate speech"?

Twitter panics over phrase "Learn to Code".

Breitbart: "Telling fired journalists to 'learn to code' is targeted harassment."
Twitter has ruled that telling journalists to learn to code is “targeted harassment.” A Twitter spokesperson stated that the situation was “nuanced” but that telling laid-off journalists to “learn to code” could be considered “targeted harassment.”
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Twitter does not consider the repeated calls of violence against the students of Covington Catholic High School to be targeted harassment. Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan’s referral to Jewish people as “termites” also did not violate the sites targeted harassment rules. Tweets about the Covington school kids such as “LOCK THE KIDS IN THE SCHOOL AND BURN THAT B*TCH TO THE GROUND,” were allowed on Twitter’s platform[.]
More at The Independent Sentinel.

And more at Bounding Into Comics.

We have such sensitive journalists.

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