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on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM
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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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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 21 2017, @01:24PM
Sometimes its just organic, you get a big enough pile of people on a big enough platform and just like antibiotic resistance doesn't "have to" form yet it always inevitably does eventually, here's gab.ai which like /pol/ is kinda echo-chamber-y but none the less entertaining.
trolls who can say insightful things from time to time.
That's part of the red pilling process which is precisely why the opfor wants censorship. We live in a heavily politically indoctrinated society, looking at media, the education system. Everyone who's not hopelessly bluepilled started by visiting /pol/ or whatever and was like 99% repulsed due to brainwashing but damn that one meme about "hillary voters going to the election polls / trump voters going to the polls" or some ben garrison political comic or whatever got them started thinking, and a month of open minded uncensored thinking later they're all 14/88. And that's exactly why the 1984-style people are desperate for censorship. Once a political philosophy is far past its "best by" date and hopelessly obsolete and unable to effectively model and predict the world, its only hope is to avoid scientific like openness and rely on censorship and oppression to stay in power just a little longer. It happens every time from left to right or right to left. All it ever really does is piss off the victims making for ... overreaction. Hopefully the inevitable overreaction to the death of progressivism will just be a lot of yelling and bad feelings and not the camps ovens after the end of Weimar Germany, but that would require introspection and historical perspective on the side thats instead doubling down with oppression, censorship, and violence, like happens every time in human history, so one guess how this is likely to turn out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:20PM
Or, the partisan labels "progressive" and "alt-right" are just red herrings. There is no real progressive policy happening any more, both "sides" just use rhetoric to polarize public opinion and allow bad policy to be passed with little opposition. The evil entities of the world hide behind d labels, the Gates foundation hides behind altruism of research and education in order to destroy our education system. I don't have a good conservative exams offhand but they hide behind religion and morality to push their agendas.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 21 2017, @08:51PM
I don't have a good conservative exams offhand but they hide behind religion and morality to push their agendas.
The neocons, yes aren't they an interesting self contained group.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @07:17PM
Hey VLM, you know that Matrix fan theory about Zion being just another level of the Matrix to catch clever folks who think they made it out? Hint: that's what these alt-right places are. Clever traps that flatter the egos of small-timers like you, who think seeing through one layer of bullshit means seeing through them all.
Wake up, Neo: the Matrix has you. Forever.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...