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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: flowers on December 25, 2013, 07:30:57 pm

Title: Twitter apologizes for blocking users from linking to pro-Phil Robertson website after Duck Dynasty star's gay slurs spark outrage
Post by: flowers on December 25, 2013, 07:30:57 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529036/Twitter-apologizes-blocking-users-linking-pro-Phil-Robertson-website-Duck-Dynasty-stars-gay-slurs-spark-outrage.html

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Twitter has apologized for blocking users from linking to a website supporting Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson's right to freedom of speech

The social network has issued a formal apology for blocking the site iStandwithPhil.com saying it was flagged as spam, which prohibited Twitter users from linking to the page.

Twitter users are now able to freely link to the site without any problems.

Title: Re: Twitter apologizes for blocking users from linking to pro-Phil Robertson website after Duck Dynasty star's gay slurs spark outrage
Post by: Chieftain on December 25, 2013, 07:46:31 pm

uh huh...someone at Twitter listened to the Corporate Shark and did a 180 on this so fast they may well have violated the Laws of Relativity....

Title: Re: Twitter apologizes for blocking users from linking to pro-Phil Robertson website after Duck Dynasty star's gay slurs spark outrage
Post by: mountaineer on December 26, 2013, 01:59:11 pm

Saying something negative about someone's behavior is not a slur, but I guess we'd be fighting a losing battle to try to make that distinction.

Title: Re: Twitter apologizes for blocking users from linking to pro-Phil Robertson website after Duck Dynasty star's gay slurs spark outrage
Post by: rangerrebew on December 26, 2013, 02:17:07 pm

Quote from: mountaineer on December 26, 2013, 01:59:11 pm

Saying something negative about someone's behavior is not a slur, but I guess we'd be fighting a losing battle to try to make that distinction.

You are absolutely correct but the left has damaged the English Language so badly people fail to see the significance.  It's like using the terms republic and democracy interchangeably.  When I hear politicians saying our "democracy" it just makes me cringe to think how little they understand the language.

Title: Re: Twitter apologizes for blocking users from linking to pro-Phil Robertson website after Duck Dynasty star's gay slurs spark outrage
Post by: flowers on December 26, 2013, 05:04:55 pm

Quote from: rangerrebew on December 26, 2013, 02:17:07 pm

.  When I hear politicians saying our "democracy" it just makes me cringe to think how little they understand the language.

One of my pet peeves. It irritates the heck out of me when they do that.

Title: Re: Twitter apologizes for blocking users from linking to pro-Phil Robertson website after Duck Dynasty star's gay slurs spark outrage
Post by: Rapunzel on December 26, 2013, 09:18:23 pm

Slurs?  Love these skewed headlines /s