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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) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:52PM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:52PM (#469816) Journal

    Someone probably modded your comment as spam.

    You need to bring it to the attention of the mods if you feel it is unwarranted.

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:27AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:27AM (#469945)

    Doesn't sound right. I only got banned from moderating, being flagged as a spammer wouldn't do that while leaving the posting bonus intact, or at we should hope not.

    I was hoping mentioning it would bring out others to prove that it wasn't an isolated incident that could be put down to "sh*t happens" but that doesn't seem to be the case. So maybe I just have a stalker.