'Hateful conduct has no place': Commentator Katie Hopkins completely banned from Twitter
21 June, 2020
Far-right public commentator Katie Hopkins provides been permanently suspended from Twitter, the public media platform has verified.
The British critic, TV personality and former columnist for SUNLIGHT newspaper was removed for violating Twitter's hateful conduct policy, a spokesperson for the website told The Guardian.
“Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us," the spokesperson stated. "Abuse and hateful conduct haven't any put on our service and we'll continue to do something when our rules are broken."
The precise rules Hopkins, 45, violated have not been detailed, but Twitter's policy states that users should never "promote violence against or straight attack or threaten other persons on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious illness".
Hopkins's latest tweets had taken goal at the Dark Lives Matter activity, and she regularly takes an anti-immigration and pro-Brexit stance.
Hopkins, who had more than 1.1 million followers, was previously suspended from Twitter for a week in January, after anti-racism campaigners complained that her articles constituted hate speech.
The right-wing commentator, who rose to notoriety after appearing on the united kingdom version of reality show The Apprentice, is widely known as an Islamophobe.
In July 2016, following the terrorist attack in Wonderful, Hopkins tweeted, “Islam disgusts me”; she has described Sadiq Khan as the “Muslim mayor of Londonistan”; and in 2017, she was forced to leave the air station LBC after contacting for a “final alternative” in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing.
In 2016, the Mail Online - the digital arm of the Daily Mail newspaper - had to pay out £150,000 (Dh680,350) to a British Muslim family after Hopkins falsely accused them of extremism.
In 2018, she was forced to use for insolvency after being ordered to pay £24,000 in damages to Jack Monroe, plus £107,000 in legal costs, after Hopkins wrongly accused the British food author of supporting the defacement of war memorials.
Source: www.thenational.ae
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