Charles Johnson, one of the Internet’s most infamous trolls, has finally been banned from Twitter

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Charles Johnson, one of the Internet’s most infamous trolls, has finally been banned from Twitter

The Intersect
By Caitlin Dewey May 26 at 11:16 AM
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Chuck Johnson, the far-right mega-troll who doxed two New York Times reporters and argued that homosexuality caused the Amtrak derailment, may at last be off Twitter — this time, for good.
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“Twitter doesn’t seem to have a problem with people using their service to coordinate riots,” Johnson complained on his blog, GotNews.com, which has since been downed by an apparent DDoS attack. “But they do have a problem with the kind of journalism I do.”

In other words, Johnson’s saying, Twitter is differentiating between types of acceptable speech; they’re redrawing the boundaries of things you can say in public and things you can’t say in public, in a way that Johnson and others — including Twitter! — aren’t necessarily used to.

See, there’s a popular misconception that moderation on social networks and other Web sites is governed by the First Amendment. (For more on this mistaken point of view, plz see the comments section of virtually any Washington Post story.) That is not, however, technically correct. The First Amendment defines the relationship between you, as a citizen, and the government. It does not define your relationship between, say, you and a private corporation, or you and the university you attend, or you and your neighborhood association.

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1. Given the part of the story you ellipsed, it's not surprising.

On Sunday, Johnson was permanently suspended from the site after asking for funds to “take out” the civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, who’s been active in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo.

Twitter rightfully has a problem with being used as a means of soliciting funding for what sounds like murder for hire.