Instagram to Permanently Ban Users Who Send 'Hate Speech' in Private Messages

Instagram has announced that it is going to stamp out hate speech in private direct messages (DMs) and will begin disabling the accounts of people who repeatedly send hateful messages to others on its platform.

In a statement about their censoring its users Instagram boasted that 95% of the “6.5 million pieces of hate speech” from July through September were censored by the platform without anyone even reporting it. In other words, nobody was upset or offended, but the platform decided what you can or cannot see and share.

“Today, we’re announcing that we’ll take tougher action when we become aware of people breaking our rules in DMs. Currently, when someone sends DMs that break our rules, we prohibit that person from sending any more messages for a set period of time. Now, if someone continues to send violating messages, we’ll disable their account. We’ll also disable new accounts created to get around our messaging restrictions, and will continue to disable accounts we find that are created purely to send abusive messages,” the statement explained.

Instagram added that they are “committed to cooperation with UK law enforcement authorities on hate speech and will respond to valid legal requests for information in these cases.”

As with most social media platforms, these types of broad anti “hate speech” rules end up being exploited to target conservatives. First they censored public notices, then they move to private messages. In other words, they are reading your private messages.

The censorship of conservative voices continued Thursday when Twitter censored conservative journalist James O’Keefe’s along with his founding organization Project Veritas’ Twitter accounts in violation of “rules against posting private information.”

The Federalist reported:

This decision by Twitter comes after Project Veritas’s reporting on Facebook Vice President Guy Rosen saying the Big Tech platform intentionally “freezes,” via algorithms, comments where hate speech “may be.”

Project Veritas captured Rosen saying the following during a leaked internal Facebook call meeting. The clips were released Wednesday.

“We have a system that is able to freeze commenting on threads in cases where our systems are detecting that there may be a thread that has hate speech or violence. … These are all things we’ve built over the past three-four years as part of our investments into the integrity space, our efforts to protect the election.”

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