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on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
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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Everybody is going somewhere!! It's probably a garage sale or a
disaster Movie!!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jmorris on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:41PM
And just who is going to build that alternative to your whims?
The Alt-Tech movement. The replacement for Twitter is Gab.ai. They are still scaling up and adding features but they even do video already. Twitter is pretty straightforward tech to replicate, it is the revenue model that is eluding Twitter. Gab for now is just asking for donations instead of spending most of their time working ways to sell the eyeballs they are collecting. They know exactly what they are fighting against and have already built in anti-SJW entryism as an explicit goal for management. On the service itself though, Speak freely is the motto and they mean it.... although Weev has already pushed it right to the line a few times. You can't actually break laws. Gab Guidelines [gab.ai] is about as open as you can expect.
I get the feeling things are starting to shift even here. Last month I suddenly found myself banned from moderating. No I don't abuse mods, I am often too lazy to actually moderate but that is a different thing. I will often moderate several posts then get distracted before I hit the bottom of the page and end up closing that tab instead of submitting.... no javascript has pluses and minuses.
Now I notice that the balance of power in moderation has shifted in general, where before there were at least as many up as down votes overall, now I only attract far more downmods, implying I wasn't the only one. Meaning it wasn't a random accident. Somebody has decided this place needs less diversity of ideas and found a more subtle way to 'fix' the problem than the banhammer or shadowbanning. That seems to be the general pattern across the Internet, the first gen was just point and shriek, then call in a strike on the heretics. That generated a backlash, like the creation of SolyentNews. The enemies of liberty do learn, if slowly.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:13PM
Occam's razor explanation: people caught on to your bullshit and now apply more critical filters when they see your name. I've been tricked into thinking you had a good point before, then retread the comment and saw it wasn't quite what I thought. There have been a few posts of hours I've liked, so far all technically oriented.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:14PM
Consider that you're getting downmodded because you're actually dangerously wrong about a lot of things, maybe? I've seen the same pattern; over the last 2-3 months I've noticed you and people like you are attracting a lot more (justified!) heat, and it does me good to see you getting what you deserve.
News flash, shitheel! When you use the term "dark enlightenment" unironically, everyone with half a brain is gonna call you on it! And now that you're getting the ridicule you so richly deserve, it's "whaa, whaa, poor persecuted me, why's DA MAN keepin' me down?!" Go cry in your safespace.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:52PM
Someone probably modded your comment as spam.
You need to bring it to the attention of the mods if you feel it is unwarranted.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:27AM
Doesn't sound right. I only got banned from moderating, being flagged as a spammer wouldn't do that while leaving the posting bonus intact, or at we should hope not.
I was hoping mentioning it would bring out others to prove that it wasn't an isolated incident that could be put down to "sh*t happens" but that doesn't seem to be the case. So maybe I just have a stalker.
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:40AM
Easy to have free speech when you make sure only the correct people are allowed to participate.