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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 dry on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:03AM

    by dry (223) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:03AM (#470037) Journal

    Well someone up the page said this about them,

    They know exactly what they are fighting against and have already built in anti-SJW entryism as an explicit goal for management.

    and this thread mentions that they want an email address and then you get into a queue of almost 1/2 million that perhaps need vetting before letting you in to practice free speech. Sounds like a club where only their version of the politically correct are allowed to speak.

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