Eventually, Wikileaks threatened to create its own alternative micro-blogging service. TO add to the mix, WikiLeaks has threatened to start its own Twitter because of “cyber feudalism”. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others,” Twitter said in a statement. Targeted abuse and inciting abuse against people however, that’s not allowed.” To this, WikiLeaks responded by compared banning people on Twitter to Turkey’s recent mass arrests and (apparently) Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937. Twitter has taken a drastic step by permanently banning Milo Yiannopoulos -- the tech editor at a conservative news site Breitbart -- for being one of site’s most offensive users.

Source: Hindustan Times July 22, 2016 06:33 UTC