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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:46AM (#469561)

    I got a chuckle behind the meanings of the names, time to kick the euphemism mill into hyperdrive.
    For those not in the know: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/operation-google [knowyourmeme.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 21 2017, @09:53AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday February 21 2017, @09:53AM (#469635) Homepage
    Never heard of that before. If one party (google) is going to start setting rules, and thus turn it into a game, then the gaming will be the response...
    Let's not pretend that some of these words won't stick, just because the idea started in some dark and essentially unimportant corner of the internet. They just need to gain a critical mass, and to be more useful than the words they replace. Google's ensuring the latter condition nicely, well done google.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:12PM (#469675)

    Good luck with redefining google to be a synomym for a hate word.
    That's not how language works. But the alt-nazis are, by definition, reductive, so its no surprise they would have a reductive understanding of language too.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:14PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:14PM (#469741) Homepage
      Erm, nope, that's precisely how language works.

      Lots of really stupid stuff has crept into the language because large numbers of ignorant people use it, and eventually it becomes unexceptional ("could care less" where "could not care less" is meant, "nonplussed" where "unphased" is meant, etc.)
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      Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 25 2017, @02:51PM

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday February 25 2017, @02:51PM (#471501) Homepage

        God fucking dammit I hate when people say "phased." It's "fazed" dammit! Its in the fucking original Super Mario Brothers instruction booklet! Urrrrrrgghhh.