Twitter begins banning “groomer” insults

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Following pressure from journalists, Twitter has followed Reddit and has started censoring the word โ€œgroomer,โ€ suggesting that it is an anti-LGBT slur.

Cultural and political commentator James Lindsay was locked out of Twitter after calling Ari Drennen, who works at left-wing pressure group Media Matters, a groomer.

Drennen criticized an article by the Daily Caller about the campaign to get Twitter to censor the term โ€œgroomer.โ€ Responding to Drennenโ€™s tweet, Lindsay wrote: โ€œOk, groomer.โ€

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