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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:42AM (#469589)

    Twitter is a private company. They are allowed to censor as they please, whether you like it or not, just like Facebook, Google, and any other media company of any sort.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:16AM

    by Zz9zZ (1348) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:16AM (#469597)

    Ya ya same old response. I don't hear anyone calling for legal action against them. Speaking out against bullshit is the least we can do.

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    ~Tilting at windmills~
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:23AM (#469640)

    And we are private individuals. We are allowed to complain as we please, whether you like it or not.