Twitter suspends Hungarian government’s account
Twitter today suspended the Hungarian government’s Twitter account without warning prompting Viktor Orban’s spokesman to ridicule the ‘beautiful new world of tech giants silencing opinions.’
The account @AboutHungary, which tweets on behalf of the nationalist prime minister’s cabinet office, was inaccessible earlier but has since been restored.
It comes after Twitter waded into political rows in the United States earlier this year by flagging President Donald Trump’s tweets for ‘misinformation’.
The government account tweeted shortly before noon on Wednesday: ‘This account was indeed suspended without warning or explanation. It has apparently now been restored – also without explanation.’
Twitter later claimed the account was ‘suspended in error’.
Orban has been lauded for the ‘tremendous job’ he’s done by Trump and has been referred to as a ‘dictator’ by the EU’s Jean Claude Juncker.
It is not clear what may have prompted the action by Twitter.
The Hungarian government’s recent tweets have included two which quote Orban, one which says, ‘Hungary had successfully defeated the epidemic once and would do so again’; and another, ‘Budapest will not agree to anything that could lead to Hungary being under obligation to take in people coming from the Middle East or Africa.’
Riots have been abolished
The death of George Floyd sparked a wave of riots and looting that has plagued cities across the country. Buildings have been burned. People have been assaulted and killed. Stores have been looted. But, according to latest addition to the Associated Press Stylebook Newspeak Dictionary, you shouldn’t be using the word “riot” anymore.
“A riot is a wild or violent disturbance of the peace involving a group of people. The term riot suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium,” explained the AP Stylebook’s official Twitter account on Wednesday. “Focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s.”
Because of this alleged problem, the AP is now saying that the word “unrest” should be used instead of “riot” because—and I’m not joking here—it is less “emotional.”
“Unrest is a vaguer, milder and less emotional term for a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt,” they argue.
To make matters worse, the AP then seems to suggest that “protest” and “demonstration” are adequate alternatives to “riot” as well. “Protest and demonstration refer to specific actions such as marches, sit-ins, rallies or other actions meant to register dissent. They can be legal or illegal, organized or spontaneous, peaceful or violent, and involve any number of people
2 comments:
More of the usual lefty attempt to change the language in order to rid something they want to do of it's unsavory stigma.
As always, the stigma will simply follow to the new language but the lefties have never figured that simple fact out for themselves so they keep trying.
Just notice and compare the violent Antifa and BPM with the Peaceful Tea Party Liberal Democrats are way too stupid to take any notice
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