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Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.

MrPlow writes:

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 https on Wednesday February 22 2017, @01:51AM

    by https (5248) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @01:51AM (#469954) Journal

    My spine is awesome. But my patience with assholes flying the false flag of "but free speech" is terribly thin - twitter ain't the government. I can't think of anything more chickenshit than refusing to man up and add something of value - viz, that doesn't merit censorship - to a discussion. Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam rape small children spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam kill small doggies spam spam spam spam

    See how much fun that is? Can you imagine how illuminating we could make the discussions on twitter where you don't have threshold filters like SN or /. does? Can you imagine the mongolian clusterfuckness of adding slashcode to twitter?

    Shadowbanning is a nifty trick to shut down mombasement mouthbreathers who wouldn't have been let out in public fifty years ago.

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