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on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
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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) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:49PM
Idealism is about what the world should be, pragmatism is about how the world actually is. And the sooner idealists see how it actually is, the sooner they deviate from their principles.
Is that a good thing?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @07:14PM
For him it is. He has no principles, and doesn't understand why anyone else does either.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...