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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: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:10PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:10PM (#469768) Journal

    Censorship is the wrong way to do this. Don't censor assholes; blast their message loud and clear in places where people can ridicule it as it deserves :D Sunlight is a disinfectant after all.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:02PM (#469795)

    I don't have any more mod points, but I would mod you up if I did.
    This is the first non-hateful, non-personal-insult-laden post I've seen you make, and it's also absolutely correct.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:53PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:53PM (#469817) Journal

      If you really think this is the first non-hateful, non-insult-laden post I've made, you're not following me closely, Mr. Erstwhile Stalker :)

      This has ALWAYS been my position: one of the reasons I keep responding to assholes like J-Mo and Uzzard is so their loathsome fact-free memetic vandalism gets exposed for what it is to the maximum number of eyes. Their kind have a permanent persecution complex; what they can't stand is ridicule.

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