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A Twitter rules update rolled out on Wednesday to address the site's "verification" system, and it attached a new set of standards to any user whose account receives a "blue check mark."
Twitter's "verification" system is used to confirm accounts of celebrities and other accounts of "public interest." However, the feature has long straddled a blurry line between identity confirmation and "elite" user status, especially since verified accounts receive heightened visibility and perks such as content filters. That issue returned to the headlines last week when Twitter gave a blue check mark to white nationalist Jason Kessler. Kessler is best known as an organizer of the Unite The Right white-supremacist rally, but before then, he had racked up a significant record of online hate propagation, particularly with anti-Semitic rhetoric about "cultural Marxism."
"Twitter on Wednesday removed the 'verification' checkmarks from the accounts of a number of white nationalists and far-right activists -- in a move that critics say could have a chilling effect on free speech." http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/11/16/twitter-targets-white-nationalists-and-far-right-activists-in-de-verification-purge.html
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 20 2017, @04:43PM (3 children)
This is another word that has lost all meaning to me from overuse. What is "reactionary" supposed to actually mean, other than "I don't like them"?
One of Hitler's obsessions was anti-communism. One of communism's obsessions was anti-capitalist. Is communism considered "reactionary," too?
"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) by tangomargarine on Monday November 20 2017, @04:45PM
So basically it means "conservative." As contrasted with liberal? Fucking useless term.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by ants_in_pants on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:16AM (1 child)
I literally don't understand what point you're trying to make here.
Anyway, it basically means a desire to keep society the way it is, or to change it back to the way it used to be. Anti-progress is a good way of putting it.
-Love, ants_in_pants
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 22 2017, @03:50PM
Progress can be good or bad. But people seem to always use "reactionary" with a negative connotation.
Hey, Hitler was taking aggressive and proactive action towards "the Jewish problem." That's "progress," right?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"