QAnon bans: how tech companies are responding to the conspiracy theory - Business Insider

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QAnon is facing a wave of bans by tech companies. These are the platforms that have and haven't responded to the conspiracy theory.

that there were still 93,000 active Twitter accounts referencing QAnon in their profiles, citing research from Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan research group.

The announcement, which stops short of a ban, already led to the removal of two top QAnon accounts from the platform,YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki had previously told CNN on Monday that the platform had not made a policy banning the conspiracy theory movement. "We're looking very closely at QAnon," Wojcicki said. "We already implemented a large number of different policies that have helped to maintain that in a responsible way.

"Etsy is firmly committed to the safety of our marketplace and fostering an inclusive environment. Our seller policies prohibit items that promote hate, incite violence, or promote or endorse harmful misinformation. In accordance with these policies, we are removing items related to 'QAnon' from our marketplace," the spokesperson said in a statement.

"We actively moderate our channels and remove anything that violates our policy or does not reflect our company's values of inclusiveness and unity or maintain a respectful environment," the spokesperson said. In addition to seeking QAnon content to remove, the platform disabled search terms for "QAnon" and "WWG1WGA." In this photo illustration, a Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.in September that Reddit had successfully rid its platform of most QAnon content, but company leadership wasn't quite sure how.

 

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The elite messaging system is failing. Most people don't trust news and media organizations like BI anymore and the more agressive they attempt to censor a subject, the more observed the subject becomes. Ying and Yang. People are becoming more self aware everyday.

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