Katie Hopkins banned from Twitter

[Lightofthephoenix]

About bloody time!

I'm sure she isn't worried. She has plenty of other followers.

It may tell you that Collaborate but luckily I have the right to reply and that means everyone has the right to read my posts and decide for themselves. Free speech is useful that way.

Banning people makes them a martyr to their cause. If you let someone speak you let everyone see who they are.

Hmmm... I'm not sure. People who like her, will always like her. The kind of people who claim she "speaks for the silent majority" always looked up to her

Normal people won't think she's done kind of martyr, even if we don't agree with Twitter's decision

(She has made vile comments before but I'm not sure the Rashford ones broke Twitter guidelines. Anyway, glad to see her gone)

@Spudlet

‘And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.’

That Terry Pratchett was a clever bloke. I doubt Katie Hopkins would be a fan though, which is a shame. She might learn something.

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@FishAreAcquaintancesNotFood

It may tell you that Collaborate but luckily I have the right to reply and that means everyone has the right to read my posts and decide for themselves. Free speech is useful that way.

That is how it should be. But if you had spouted the same racist shit as Hopkins on here your post would have been removed and before long you'd have been banned. Which is how it should be. I don't see why you think anyone should be able to spout racist shit anywhere they like and then scratch your head at all the racial intolerance that we see around us these days.

@Lynda07

She tweeted about Marcus Rashford and his campaign for free dinners for children in the holidays:

"Do you think women should think about how they are going to feed a child before they decide to have it?

"I do not want to pay to feed other people’s kids. You are welcome to."

That caused uproar.

Whilst I absolutely do not agree with what KH said - I think she is deplorable, I can't understand why she is banned for that and yet the utter hate and abuse that was hurled at JKR stands

@YangShanPo

She really is the worst of British, but if we want people like J.K Rowling to be able to express a currently unpopular opinion then we should allow people we don't agree with the same freedom. Tbf KH probably loves the notoriety.

JKR's views are not unpopular. But that people (women) are scared to speak out for fear of abuse is very worrying.

Sorry from daily mirror explains more on her vile comments ...

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-vile-tweet-booted-22222041

@FishAreAcquaintancesNotFood

Twitter platforms actual paedophiles. Should Twitter be the arbiter of morals for us all? They allow men to make repeated rape threats and threats of vioence against women.

Sorry, I'm a little confused. Where did I say in my post that any of this is acceptable? My post was regarding Katie Hopkins, nothing else. Twitter can ban whoever they like - that's just a fact. I didn't say, or suggest at any point, that Twitter should be 'the arbiter of morals to us all'. You just made that up.

@AgeLikeWine

If you disapprove of the no-platforming of those you agree with, eg Germaine Greer, Peter Tatchell then you must also disapprove of the no-platforming of Katie Hopkins. Obviously, if she or anyone else breaks the laws on hate-speech, they should be prosecuted, but within the law free speech should be allowed.

Free speech only for those you agree with is no free speech at all.

Elements of the left want to shut down and censor everyone they don't agree with and now even want to erase any history they don't like

Elements of the right want to attack everyone they don't agree with

I agree with her ban.

I think she was just ramping up unpopular opinions for revenue. I don't think she truly believed everything she wrote she was making a living being a troll.

Freedom of speech should be kept but making money from upsetting people is taking it too far.

I don't think she truly believed everything she wrote she was making a living being a troll.

That's hardly specific to her. It's modern journalism in a nutshell and it's Twitter that's gave rise to it.

She was probably banned for telling a black footballer that she was white and Christian and he should bow before her

I agree with some of the things she says - tax credits are generous - you just need to budget and put your children first - other things- naaaa. two loafs of bread, budget beans, eggs .... you can buy a lot for under a tenner - and last a long time

@booearing

She was probably banned for telling a black footballer that she was white and Christian and he should bow before her

... and kiss her ring. Yuck.

I'm amazed that so many people who are outraged that a social media platform has the power to ban people are still on MN. After all, they ban people every day for breaking their rules. Don't you think the free speech rights of the trolls, perverts and racists who regularly turn up round here are sacrosanct?

@Megatron

KH can say whatever she likes. No one can control what comes out if her hate spewing gob and she absolutely has the right to say what she thinks. However, Twitter do not need to agree to be her platform to say it.

Does anything else need to be said?

@DuineArBith

I'm amazed that so many people who are outraged that a social media platform has the power to ban people are still on MN. After all, they ban people every day for breaking their rules. Don't you think the free speech rights of the trolls, perverts and racists who regularly turn up round here are sacrosanct?

Exactly

It would appear that it’s perfectly acceptable to abuse and troll women on twitter but you just can’t actually be a troll if you’re a woman.

Freedom of speech is only applicable against the government, and even then it’s a right that can, and in some cases should, be restricted.
Twitter, as pointed out previously, is a private company and not a government, and can set their own rules as to what is acceptable on their platform, as long as that falls within the law (ie they can’t tolerate hate speech which would otherwise be banned).
Katie H is still free to spew whatever vile claptrap she chooses, she just doesn’t get to do it on twitter anymore (and in fact has shifted to another platform).

Now if you don’t like that twitter has banned x and not y, again, they are a company not a government, so take it up with Twitter.

@AgeLikeWine I'd gladly see Germaine Greer banned from everywhere after what she said about rapists being 'careless and insensitive ' and should be given 200 hours community service.

While banning her on Twitter might make her a martyr to some the enticing of anger and racial hatred has a far more negative influence on society

She isn’t being silenced she will find a way to be heard this is just one platform that has been taken away let’s hope Twitter starts banning others who use the platform the threats violence or stir up such hatred

Unfortunately this isn’t the last we shall hear from her but maybe it shows things are changing and that as a society we are becoming less tolerant of hatred being spread in supposedly intelligent debate

On Twitter it’s fair game to threaten and abuse anyone who isn’t . It’s an echo chamber and a cesspit. It’s about time it wasn’t just right wingers who get banned. The left are far worse.

isn’t left

I don't like KH but is unfair to ban her when they allow such vicious aggression from TRA towards anyone that questions them. Horrific double standards.