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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the then-again,-maybe-not dept.

In what appears to be new ranking behavior, Gizmodo has identified several prominent far-right accounts now buried by Twitter's search feature.

The accounts—which belong to figures like Unite The Right organizer Jason Kessler and white nationalist Richard Spencer—no longer appear in the social platform's dropdown results, when searching either for their display names or @ handles.

"Search all" on desktop, and sorting by "People" after a search on mobile still generate the expected results, but Twitter seems to intend to reduce the ease with which these personalities can grow their followings. The move follows Twitter's plans to limit the reach of "troll-like behavior," announced in May.

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-be-demoting-controversial-accounts-in-searc-1827788070


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:08PM (12 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:08PM (#711832) Journal

    Oh, Arik, my naive boy...corporations are *people* now, don't you remember? And as to contract, why, agreeing to use the service at all constitutes legally-binding acceptance of the Terms of Service! Try to lie back and think of England...

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  • (Score: 2) by schad on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:16PM (6 children)

    by schad (2398) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:16PM (#711839)

    corporations are *people* now

    I see this trope a lot, but I'm not actually sure where it comes from. Can you help me out?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:33PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:33PM (#711853)

      This is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood [wikipedia.org]

      More to the point, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC [wikipedia.org]

      • (Score: 2) by schad on Wednesday July 25 2018, @02:03AM (1 child)

        by schad (2398) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @02:03AM (#712099)

        But why does it matter what legal framework a group of people chooses to use when organizing itself? Clearly those people individually have the Constitutionally-guaranteed right to political speech. But when you put them in a group, they don't have that right any more? Is it only some groups? Do the groups have to be of a certain size? How do you define those limits? What about elements of personhood that I think we all agree that corporations ought to have, like the ability to enter into contracts?

        I feel like there is something I'm missing, because this seems really, really obvious to me. Yet roughly half the country disagrees with me (and most of the other half probably agree only because they feel it benefits "their side"). The WP articles you cite really only talk about the way things are, and don't say anything about why (other than "because the Supreme Court said so").

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @06:39AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @06:39AM (#712205)

          The ACLU agrees with you and "reaffirmed its stance in support of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling" in 2012.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:14PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:14PM (#711881) Journal

      Republicans.

      It comes from Republicans.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @03:12AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @03:12AM (#712136)

      I see this trope a lot, but I'm not actually sure where it comes from. Can you help me out?

      It comes from Rome. A corporation does not physically exist but it will be treated by the court as if it were a person (corpus) under the law. It can have lawyers, it can file a complaint, it can be a defendant. It's what the name means.

      All of the noise about it is ignorant Democrats demanding that we change the definition of a word again.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:08PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:08PM (#712280) Journal

        That part is fine, but when was the last time you saw a corporation sent up to the Big House for a 20 year stretch, or put into the gas chamber? Corporations have the rights of real people, but don't suffer the penalties for crimes the way real people do. Over time they have used that to entirely corrupt our society. If we don't put an end to that, they will put an end to us.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:00PM (4 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:00PM (#711871) Journal
    Corporations have always been persons, sweety. They just weren't *natural persons.* Unfortunately your generation doesn't seem to care much about such "fine" distinctions.

    "agreeing to use the service at all constitutes legally-binding acceptance of the Terms of Service!"

    It gives them an argument, though not a strong one, to that affect.

    The best solution, of course, is to simply shun such trash to begin with. But I'm not going to agree that merely by naively posting to twitter anyone signs away their rights.

    "lie back and think of England"

    I'm suddenly filled anew with appreciation for sun and decent food. Was that the reaction you were looking for?

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:05PM (3 children)

      by sjames (2882) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:05PM (#711919) Journal

      No. Corporations used to be treated as a legal entity within a very limited scope.

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:33PM (2 children)

        by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:33PM (#711945) Journal
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

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