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: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Tuesday February 21 2017, @07:52PM
@ chromas-
during a tough day, that made me smile and a little gurgling, golem-like chuckle emerged...
*sigh*
this 'cultural appropriation' bullshit is just so silly, it makes me weak with frustration that ANYONE (oppressor or oppressee) could take more than a few minutes thought to realize how asinine and self-limiting the application of such a 'principle' is...
gets down to it, english is chock-full-o 'appropriated' words, a good percentage from romance languages, if not latin itself, a lot of other smatterings of words from here there and everywhere... not to mention the infinitude of technical terms, biology terms, computer terms/languages, chemical names, etc, etc, etc...
what, now we all have to make up a unique language to avoid some madeup 'appropriation' bogeyman ? ? ?
fuck, what do you do with an insane civilization ? ? ?