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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: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 21 2017, @09:53AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday February 21 2017, @09:53AM (#469635) Homepage
    Never heard of that before. If one party (google) is going to start setting rules, and thus turn it into a game, then the gaming will be the response...
    Let's not pretend that some of these words won't stick, just because the idea started in some dark and essentially unimportant corner of the internet. They just need to gain a critical mass, and to be more useful than the words they replace. Google's ensuring the latter condition nicely, well done google.
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