With all the controversy surrounding President Trump’s comments on the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, the top tech giants in the United States have decided to take things into their own hands.
It has been announced that the Twitter account of the white-supremacist website the Daily Stormer is no longer on the social media platform. Why? Twitter (NYSE:$TWTR) apparently suspended it for violating its policies. Even though Twitter said that it is not able to comment on individual accounts, they did list the account as suspended on the platform.
In response to a MarketWatch inquiry, a Twitter spokesperson said, “The Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies.”
Twitter is not the first company to act against the Daily Stormer. In fact, the site was banned from GoDaddy (NYSE:$GDDY), which is a domain-registry company, and Google (NASDAQ:$GOOGL), which led the site to re-register under a Russian domain name. Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:$FB) removed an event page that was connected to the white-supremacy march in the college town. Additionally, Facebook disclosed that it will remove links related to a Daily Stormer post that belittled Heather Heyer, the counter-protester killed in Charlottesville, according to the Guardian.
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