Twitter doesn't find anything abusive or threatening about Azealia Banks tweeting a call for former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin to be gang banged. At least, that's what one assumes as they recently came out in defense of the filthy mouthed rapper.
To quickly recap, Banks tweeted that Palin, "'get headf****d by a big, veiny, ashy black d**k' and for 'the biggest burliest blackest n*****s' to 'run a train on her.' This tweet was in response to a story Banks saw where Palin allegedly said, ".black people willingly accepted slavery." That "story" was from a satirical website where Banks apparently gets her news.
"We reviewed the content and determined that it was not in violation of the Twitter Rules," said the social media giant to someone who formally filed a complaint on Bank's disgusting tweet.
The complaint, shared by Breitbart News, reads:
"The high profile twitter user @AZEALIABANKS openly continues to advocate for rape, violent, brutal sexual & physical violence in 'offensive, vulgar, abusive and obscene' terms towards a targeted woman and her family in clear violation of Twitter's strong stand against this sort of behavior," the complaint reads. "This user continues to make `threats of violence' and continues to 'promote violence' against a targeted [sic] individual and her family. This harassment by the user's own public admission, was 'unprovoked' and 'is one-sided' and 'includes threats' - direct, explicit and graphic. @AZEALIABANKS is 'promoting violence' advocating 'direct attacks' and 'threats' on the basis of 'race', 'gender' and 'religious affiliation'. I am encouraged that you 'do not allow accounts whose primary purpose is inciting harm towards others on the basis of these categories' as for the past 72 hours this has been 90% of the of tweets coming from this @AZEALIABANKS.
"This user has openly tweeted the fact she selected to target this individual based on her opposition to the target's beliefs. I am encouraged that your policy includes: `In order to ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs, we do not tolerate behavior that crosses the line into abuse, including behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user's voice.' The resulting media coverage has created over 500,000 Google results in a three day period already with seemingly no action from Twitter to what is a very high profile violation of your own stated Terms of Service. I look forward to your swift response, your swifter action and reaffirming for members of your community (of which I am one) that threats of sexual & racial violence against women will not stand on your platform."
The complaint linked to several articles discussing Bank's vile tweets directed at Palin, including Ashley Rae Goldenberg's piece on our MRCTV blog.
It also included a link to Twitter's own terms of service, which read:
"Violent threats (direct or indirect): You may not make threats of violence or promote violence, including threatening or promoting terrorism," Twitter's Terms of Service read.
"Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease," Twitter's Terms of Service adds. "We also do not allow accounts whose primary purpose is inciting harm towards others on the basis of these categories."
I guess there are always exceptions to the Twitter and their rules, especially when it comes to conservatives.
