Twitter Blocks the Term "Illegal Alien" From Posts - UPDATE: Twitter Backs Down

[Professor Emeritus]

Soo....ppl were showing up at ellis island and getting a pass with no problems huh?

jesus christ you dudes are trying way to hard to make something that just didn't exist.

borders and border control was always a thing, with all countries/tribes/etc.
ppl weren't just able to walk in to a place freely and do what they want, but I'll let you keep reinventing history as you wish.

You think that Ellis Island had quotas? That people applied for visas ahead of time? That you had to show a passport?

Upon arrival at Ellis Island, immigrants were ushered into a room called the Great Hall and paraded before a series of medical officers for physical inspection. Most were allowed to pass by in a matter of seconds, but those whom the doctors deemed physically or mentally deficient were marked with chalk and taken away for additional screening. Questionable candidates were forced to submit to more detailed questioning and medical exams, and any signs of contagious disease, poor physique, feeblemindedness or insanity could see an immigrant denied admittance on the grounds that they were likely to become a ward of the state. In later years, doctors at Ellis Island even devised puzzles and memory tests to ensure that certain immigrants were intelligent enough to find work. New arrivals could also face rejection if they were anarchists, had a criminal record or showed signs of low moral character. Despite the litany of guidelines for new immigrants, the number of people denied entry at Ellis Island was quite low. Of the 12 million people who passed through its doors between 1892 and 1954, only around 2 percent were deemed unfit to become citizens of the United States.

And Ellis Island was fairly late in the grand scheme of things, we're talking stats all the way to 1954, and they're still not requiring prior approval and accepting 98% of entrants.

https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-ellis-island



The same was true in most of the world for most of human history. Immigrants showed up to a place and asked for entry, there was no "prior approval" or "quotas", and if you got in you got in. There was no such thing as an "illegal immigrant", if you were in you were in. The term "illegal immigrant" wasn't even in use until the 1930s after the racial quotas and bans started.

Heck, you can even see in the Bible places where Israel was ordered to treat immigrants well. The idea that they would have been denied entry in anything other than a war situation would have been antithetical, and Israel was as xenophobic and tribalist as anyone back then.

 

[newworldafro]

TWITTER NEVER SAID THAT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

EVER!

Bold, all caps, full sized, will that get it through your head yet?

Twitter didn't say one word about "illegal alien" being hate speech or banning the term. Not one word. The ONLY people who made that claim was the racist group CIS, and they admitted later that the claim was just a "guess" they made because Twitter didn't run some of their promotions. In reality, they made the claim to drum up publicity. And you ate it hook, line, and sinker.

Receipts of the organization saying "they made it up" and I will fall allllllllll the way back.

I'll take that "L". I'm sincere in my truthmongering.

I don't mind being wrong. My general position doesn't change on speech and censorship, but I will not ride a fake story. I rather be completely wrong than follow a fairy tale

Show me the receipts and I'll apologize and gracefully bow out.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

why do these conspiracy guys all end up caping for racists?

y'all run out of entertaining light hearted conspiracy shyt?

I was thinking the same thing today when that news got out about Rep. Steve King retweeting an open White Supremacist.

It was Lana Lokteff, a former paranormal and conspiracy theories blogger who switched to White Nationalism.

I was like, "Why is there so much damn back-and-forth between those two? It's like every time I hear about some White Nationalist on the web, they started out with Alex Jones or some stuff."

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Receipts of the organization saying "they made it up" and I will fall allllllllll the way back.

I'll take that "L". I'm sincere in my truthmongering.

I don't mind being wrong. My general position doesn't change on speech and censorship, but I will not ride a fake story. I rather be completely wrong than follow a fairy tale

Show me the receipts and I'll apologize and gracefully bow out.

Well then, here we go:

Twitter, however, contended that CIS's assumption was wrong.

Twitter explained that the company has no policies in its organic or paid promotion rules barring the use of the term “illegal alien,” and that its action on the CIS tweets was based on their general content.

The platform also acknowledged that denying paid promotion status to CIS’s tweets was a mistake that has since been reversed. Twitter said CIS can now promote the tweets in question.

CIS admitted that their claim had only been a guess:

Spokespeople for CIS said their guess was based on their lack of a full explanation from Twitter.

“Because they don’t tell us how they filter, the best thing we can do is guess,” one CIS spokesperson said.

Ted Cruz, Twitter spar over immigration tweets from right-wing think tank


That takes care of that.


I deserve mad rep for the work I put in taking about that one. I haven't done a job like that since....destroying Dead7's ridiculous racist-penned anti-DSA article two days ago.

 

[Maschine_Man]

You think that Ellis Island had quotas? That people applied for visas ahead of time? That you had to show a passport?



And Ellis Island was fairly late in the grand scheme of things, we're talking stats all the way to 1954, and they're still not requiring prior approval and accepting 98% of entrants.

https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-ellis-island



The same was true in most of the world for most of human history. Immigrants showed up to a place and asked for entry, there was no "prior approval" or "quotas", and if you got in you got in. There was no such thing as an "illegal immigrant", if you were in you were in. The term "illegal immigrant" wasn't even in use until the 1930s after the racial quotas and bans started.

Heck, you can even see in the Bible places where Israel was ordered to treat immigrants well. The idea that they would have been denied entry in anything other than a war situation would have been antithetical, and Israel was as xenophobic and tribalist as anyone back then.

you think you walking in to Japan or South Korea, or numerous other countries and just getting citizenship like it ain't no thing?

stop it bruh.... just fukkin stop it.


your shtick is played. I get it, HL is full of anti-white dudes thinking they know it all but in reality they don't know shyt about the world. dudes haven't left america and think they know it all from living inside one country.

is America w white supremacists dream country?? hell yea. but is the rest of the world the same?? hell naw.

 

[newworldafro]

Well then, here we go:




CIS admitted that their claim had only been a guess:


Ted Cruz, Twitter spar over immigration tweets from right-wing think tank


That takes care of that.


I deserve mad rep for the work I put in taking about that one. I haven't done a job like that since....destroying Dead7's ridiculous racist-penned anti-DSA article two days ago.

I read the article too.

They "guessed" because originally Twitter didn't provide a detailed answer...

Spoiler

CIS representatives told The Hill that they reached out to Twitter to ask why the organization's tweets were initially denied promotion status and said they received a “boilerplate answer,” which said the speech was hate content, without further explanation.

Spokespeople for CIS said their guess was based on their lack of a full explanation from Twitter.

“Because they don’t tell us how they filter, the best thing we can do is guess,” one CIS spokesperson said.

So once Twitter had Senator Cruz putting them on that Capitol Hill Summer Jam screen, Twitter finally responded with a more detailed explanation and even let them get the paid promotion finslized, which had been blocked a few hours earlier.........

After Cruz put that heat on them....

Spoiler

Twitter :juelzing: explained that the company has no policies in its organic or paid promotion rules barring the use of the term “illegal alien,” and that its action on the CIS tweets was based on their general content.

The platform :juelzing: also acknowledged that denying paid promotion status to CIS’s tweets was a mistake that has since been reversed. Twitter said CIS can now promote the tweets in question.

Still, CIS representatives told The Hill on Thursday that they believe Twitter denied the organization's ability to promote its tweets based on the language used in the tweets in question

What was the "mistake" that prevented them from getting paid promotion yesterday, but suddenly reversed today...

The language that included "illegal alien"...
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So let me get this straight.

Twitter say they prevented paid promotion because of content, but in the same breath said it was a mistake that their content was not allowed to go through the first time......after...Ted Cruz put that Summer Jam screen on Capitol Hill.....If that ain't most confusing ass explanation

Come on breh!!!

I don't care about American Mirrorr, Ted Cruz, CIS, Twitter......I care about speech.

 

[AsTheWorldBurns]

you think you walking in to Japan or South Korea, or numerous other countries and just getting citizenship like it ain't no thing?

stop it bruh.... just fukkin stop it.


your shtick is played. I get it, HL is full of anti-white dudes thinking they know it all but in reality they don't know shyt about the world. dudes haven't left america and think they know it all from living inside one country.

is America w white supremacists dream country?? hell yea. but is the rest of the world the same?? hell naw.

So you make a claim that ppl weren't just strolling into Ellis Island, @Rhakim wrecks this notion, with supported evidence, and then you hard pivot to Japan and South Korea?

Naw, YOU need to fukking stop.

 

[Gains]

So you make a claim that ppl weren't just strolling into Ellis Island, @Rhakim wrecks this notion, with supported evidence, and then you hard pivot to Japan and South Korea?

Naw, YOU need to fukking stop.

alt right posters always bring up Japan and other Asian countries as model homogeneous countries

 

[Professor Emeritus]

you think you walking in to Japan or South Korea, or numerous other countries and just getting citizenship like it ain't no thing?

stop it bruh.... just fukkin stop it.

You just moved the goalposts from Ellis Island all the way across the damn world and didn't even take a breath!

your shtick is played. I get it, HL is full of anti-white dudes thinking they know it all but in reality they don't know shyt about the world. dudes haven't left america and think they know it all from living inside one country.

is America w white supremacists dream country?? hell yea. but is the rest of the world the same?? hell naw.

Anti-white dude? I ain't anti-White at all, I'm anti-racist White.

If you can't tell the difference....

And haven't left America? Have you never read a single one of my HL posts ever?

What was the "mistake" that prevented them from getting paid promotion yesterday, but suddenly reversed today...

The language that included "illegal alien"...
____________________________

So let me get this straight.

Twitter say they prevented paid promotion because of content, but in the same breath said it was a mistake that their content was not allowed to go through the first time......after...Ted Cruz put that Summer Jam screen on Capitol Hill.....If that ain't most confusing ass explanation

Come on breh!!!

I don't care about American Mirrorr, Ted Cruz, CIS, Twitter......I care about speech.

This is the obvious progression of events:

1. CIS is a hate group created by a racist for the sole purpose of ending non-White immigration into America.

2. Some low-level Twitter employee blocked their promotions because they didn't want to promote a hate group.

3. CIS made up a random explanation for getting blocked that would play well with their base.

4. When they made a bunch of noise, the higher-ups in Twitter had to pull the block because they don't have CIS tabbed as an actual hate group, otherwise they'd have to pull their content completely and they don't want to go there yet.

That's the whole explanation. It makes logical sense on every level and fits all available facts and matches how large organizations work.




Now, these are the falsehoods that the right-wingers and you have shared so far.

#1. Claimed Twitter blocked posts - FALSE, nothing was blocked
#2. Claimed "the social media giant is now blocking folks from promoting any messages with the phrase 'illegal aliens' - FALSE, all sorts of people were still posting the phrase
#3. Cited CIS claiming "Twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase "illegal alien(s)", citing it as Hateful Content." - FALSE, not even all of the four non-promoted tweets had that word in it.
#4. Claimed that a private company choosing not to run a paid promotion by a hate group is equivalent to 1984 - FALSE, nothing was censored, the posts still posted
#5. Claimed "they were cited for "Hateful Content" by using the phrase "Illegal alien"" - FALSE, that was just their guess
#6. Claimed "Let me rephrase. The word is not blocked, but they were starting to block posts that use the term." - FALSE, not a single post was blocked
#7. Claimed "Next thing you know, They're gone block the term "Constitution" and/or "Bill of Rights" because it was written by raping pillaging slaveowners." - FALSE, that's one of the dumbest slippery slope arguments I've ever seen
#8. Claimed that I "Act and call anything racist brehs." - FALSE, I easily proved they were founded by a racist, with reciepts
#9. Claimed "When Twitter starts saying a legal term is hate speech, then there is no stopping them." - FALSE, they literally never said that
#10. Claimed "Receipts of the organization saying "they made it up" and I will fall allllllllll the way back." - FALSE, I gave the receipts and you didn't fall back

 

[AsTheWorldBurns]

alt right posters always bring up Japan and other Asian countries as model homogeneous countries

Do y'all think they're getting paid to post here, in efforts to sway black ppl to taking up alt right causes?

Or does the alt right have such a good propaganda machine that it has the power to create supporters that feel compelled to spread the good word, with blind faith, like religious zealots?

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

Do y'all think they're getting paid to post here, in efforts to sway black ppl to taking up alt right causes?

Or does the alt right have such a good propaganda machine that it has the power to create supporters that feel compelled to spread the good word, with blind faith, like religious zealots?

i dont think theyre getting paid. the second option is more likely

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

you think you walking in to Japan or South Korea, or numerous other countries and just getting citizenship like it ain't no thing?

stop it bruh.... just fukkin stop it.


your shtick is played. I get it, HL is full of anti-white dudes thinking they know it all but in reality they don't know shyt about the world. dudes haven't left america and think they know it all from living inside one country.

is America w white supremacists dream country?? hell yea. but is the rest of the world the same?? hell naw.

werent you just arguing that borders are some eternal universal thing? how you jump to south korea, a country that didnt even exist until less than 100 years ago?
citizenship itself is a very western idea and doesnt apply that well outside of the history of europe. even then it was nothing like what we have today. non-roman citizens still had rights and could travel freely, they just couldnt vote in roman elections.

 

[NoMayo15]

i reject this latent assertion from the left that citizenship and border laws shouldn't be enforced because of it

fukk. These free speech warriors can be the worsttttt. Especially the above quoted gem. Who the hell in here asserted that border laws shouldn't be enforced?? Did you seriously learn nothing from the "people who make bad faith arguments" thread?!

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Crazy how Jack buried his head in the sandbox when it comes to the alt right but twitters moment writers are super liberal

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

You think that Ellis Island had quotas? That people applied for visas ahead of time? That you had to show a passport?



And Ellis Island was fairly late in the grand scheme of things, we're talking stats all the way to 1954, and they're still not requiring prior approval and accepting 98% of entrants.

https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-ellis-island



The same was true in most of the world for most of human history. Immigrants showed up to a place and asked for entry, there was no "prior approval" or "quotas", and if you got in you got in. There was no such thing as an "illegal immigrant", if you were in you were in. The term "illegal immigrant" wasn't even in use until the 1930s after the racial quotas and bans started.

Heck, you can even see in the Bible places where Israel was ordered to treat immigrants well. The idea that they would have been denied entry in anything other than a war situation would have been antithetical, and Israel was as xenophobic and tribalist as anyone back then.

i'm just gonna save this post and quote it every time one of the retards says "ahhahyuhhffhf you either believe in borders or you don't, fluehghyehghg"