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Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language

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

MrPlow writes:

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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• 12 hours starting upon next use 12 hours starting upon next use (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Tuesday February 21 2017, @08:36AM

  by FakeBeldin (3360) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @08:36AM (#469622) Journal

  A comment above included the message Twitter sends if you're falling under the new regime (see here [twitter.com]):

  ...12 hours and 0 minutes. The countdown will begin once you continue to Twitter. <BUTTON: Continue to Twitter>

  That's rather different than just "12 hours starting now".

  On another note: Coolhand: congratulations on that byline! :)

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• Re:12 hours starting upon next use (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:30AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:30AM (#469643)

  The best response would be to click "continue to twitter", and then twitter that because of the limitation, you're going no no longer use twitter for at least the next half year, and suggest others to do likewise. And of course, act on that promise.

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• Re:12 hours starting upon next use (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:17PM

  by CoolHand (438) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:17PM (#469774) Journal

  Thanks... I debated on putting that there, but went ahead. I'm glad someone enjoyed it (and not too many others beat me up about it ).

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