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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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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:12PM
Good luck with redefining google to be a synomym for a hate word.
That's not how language works. But the alt-nazis are, by definition, reductive, so its no surprise they would have a reductive understanding of language too.
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:14PM
Lots of really stupid stuff has crept into the language because large numbers of ignorant people use it, and eventually it becomes unexceptional ("could care less" where "could not care less" is meant, "nonplussed" where "unphased" is meant, etc.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 25 2017, @02:51PM
God fucking dammit I hate when people say "phased." It's "fazed" dammit! Its in the fucking original Super Mario Brothers instruction booklet! Urrrrrrgghhh.