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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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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:51PM
Well, Bradley - I thought I'd take a look at the place. Your link brought me to a page with two choices - log in, or "let me in". I click the "let me in" button, and was asked for my email. Fill that box in, and I get this message: "Done! You're #466180 in the waiting list." Hmmmm. Almost half a million people in the waiting list ahead of me? I'll probably be dead, buried, and decomposed by the time they get around to me.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @07:00PM
466294
I was hoping for 666666 and it would invoke the devil.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---