Twitter belatedly removes repulsive, racist message by Malaysia's former premier
Breitbart announced that Twitter's finally gotten around - very late at that - to erasing the post written by Malaysia's ex-prime minister that called for murder of French:
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir bin Mohamad’s extraordinary diatribe that “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people” has been removed from Facebook and Twitter.I sure don't see at this point why anybody wants an account on a site run by such demonic people. I'd suggest all conerned French, Israelis, and Australians let go of theirs so long as people like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg continue to be in charge.
[...] Twitter ruled that Mohamad’s tweet violated its rules against “glorifying violence” but initially allowed it to remain visible to his 1.3 million followers, deciding it may be in the public interest to do so, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
It reversed this decision and took the tweet down amid significant public anger — but the rest of the thread remains available, including a subsequent tweet asserting: “Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims’ religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right to punish the French.”
Facebook has removed the rant in its entirety.
The belated action by Twitter to take down one of Mohamad’s tweets falls well short of the action demanded by the French government, which told the managing director of Twitter’s French operations that “The account must be immediately suspended. If not, Twitter would be an accomplice to a formal call for murder.”
The Malaysian elder statesman’s rant was also condemned by the Australian government, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the conservative-leaning Liberal Party branding his comments “absolutely absurd”.
Labels: Asia, Australia, communications, dhimmitude, France, islam, jihad, misogyny, Moonbattery, racism, terrorism, war on terror
