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Title    Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language
Date    Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM
Author    CoolHand
Topic   
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/21/0036210

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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