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/
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:29PM
"The purpose of the American military is to defend democracy and to defend capitalism"
HAHAHAHA
For someone who says they have served, you really don't have a clue, do you? Just follow commands, like the Nazi lower command?
Defend democracy? Is that what they did in Iran/Iraq? And I thought that was about protecting the oil supply..... Silly me.
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