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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:05PM (#469699)

    I don't mind seeing nazis and racists segregated from twitter. But it'll create an echo box environment for them which will only reinforce their own views.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:05PM (#469900)

    Have you tried gab.ai?