Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Twitter has launched a new way to punish users for bad behavior, temporarily "limiting" their account.
Some users are receiving notices their accounts are limited for 12 hours, meaning only people who follow them can see their tweets or receive notifications. When they are retweeted, people outside their network can't see those retweets.
Some speculate these limitations are automatic based on keywords, but there is no hard evidence.
This would be fine if this was used uniformly to clamp down on harassment, but it appears to be used on people, simply for using politically incorrect language.
Source: http://heatst.com/tech/twitters-new-tool-to-crack-down-on-politically-incorrect-language/
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:51AM
All the examples in the article were in the English language. I wonder whether there's any significance to that.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by chromas on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:55AM
Learning other people's languages would be cultural appropriation.
(Score: 3, Funny) by linkdude64 on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:14PM
"other people's"
Check your included-in-this-specific-example's-privilege. No-one is "other", just "unspecified."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Tuesday February 21 2017, @07:52PM
@ chromas-
during a tough day, that made me smile and a little gurgling, golem-like chuckle emerged...
*sigh*
this 'cultural appropriation' bullshit is just so silly, it makes me weak with frustration that ANYONE (oppressor or oppressee) could take more than a few minutes thought to realize how asinine and self-limiting the application of such a 'principle' is...
gets down to it, english is chock-full-o 'appropriated' words, a good percentage from romance languages, if not latin itself, a lot of other smatterings of words from here there and everywhere... not to mention the infinitude of technical terms, biology terms, computer terms/languages, chemical names, etc, etc, etc...
what, now we all have to make up a unique language to avoid some madeup 'appropriation' bogeyman ? ? ?
fuck, what do you do with an insane civilization ? ? ?