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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   
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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• Re:censorship (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:54AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:54AM (#469605)

  We value education pretty decently nowadays

  Do you mean "decently" as in we value it more than in the past? Otherwise, I would have to disagree. Most of our schools - colleges and universities included - still make heavy use of rote learning in place of encouraging understanding of the material. Furthermore, most people view college and university as fancy trade schools where they can get a piece of paper that will give them a better chance of getting a higher-paying job; they do not value academic in principle like they should. Employers look at higher education as a filtering tool and little more. Our culture is mostly hostile to real education, but is probably better when compared to the past.

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