![]() ![]() ![]() Twitter, both currently under Elon Musk and before the billionaire bought the company, has long prohibited the incitement of violence in tweets. “We are fighting against false narratives, criminalization, and eradication of our existence.” “Vengeance means fighting back with vehemence,” the protest's organizers wrote on their website. In a statement posted on the site, the Trans Radical Activist Network and other organizers also strongly rejected any connection between the school shooting in Nashville and Saturday’s protest, which organizers said was planned before the shooting took place. On its website, the group organizing Saturday's protest said it does not condone violence. As of Wednesday, police have shared no evidence that the shooter's gender or gender identity played a role in the shooting. The shooting is still under investigation. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, was among the Twitter users whose account was affected. In the aftermath of the shooting, some right-wing activists and commentators have seized on the gender identity of the shooter in order to denounce transgender people and advocates, call transgender people violent, and “evil,” and insinuate they are planning to engage in violence. ![]() Many of the tweets Twitter removed were from conservative users sharing an image of the flyer in an attempt to connect the planned protests with the recent school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. It reads “we want more than visibility” on top, followed by “trans day of vengeance” and “stop trans genocide” as well as the date and time of the planned protest. The poster in question is a largely text-based digital flyer. “Context is everything in content moderation, which is why content policies should be based in human rights and applied evenly, not changed rapidly based on public pressure or news cycles.” It’s a meme that’s been around for years, a way of expressing anger and frustration about oppression and violence the trans community faces daily,” Greer said. ’Trans Day of Vengeance' is not a specific day or a call for violence. "They are slow to moderate content targeting trans people, but quick to silence us when we speak out or push back. ![]() This appeared to anger many conservative Twitter users who said the rules were unfairly applied to them because they were posting the image of the protest flyer to speak out against it.īut trans activists were quick to point out that “trans day of vengeance” is a meme that has been around in the trans community for years and is not a call to violence - and said Twitter is misguided in its reasoning behind removing the tweets in support of the protest.Įvan Greer, director of the nonprofit liberal advocacy group Fight for the Future, said Twitter’s actions are “the latest example of Big Tech companies employing double standards in content moderation.” Because of this, both tweets that were critical of and those that supported the protests were removed. In removing the tweets, Twitter said it used automated processes to do it quickly at a large scale, without considering what context the tweets were shared in. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok,” Irwin wrote in the tweet. “Vengeance” does not imply peaceful protest. Union Minister Piyush Goyal said Amit Shah, former PM of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have also inspired himįrom April 1, wallet to wallet UPI payments above Rs 2,000 to attract 1.“We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. Jaishankar lauded India’s efforts to become the 'voice of the Global South' and emphasised that the hard work behind achieving the G20 presidency had paid off for the country Rising India Summit 2023: India managed to get G20 back on track, says Jaishankar ![]()
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