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Anonymous Claims Twitter Is Suspending 'OpISIS' Member Accounts (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on from the trouble-with-the-bank-robber-masks dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous has claimed that Twitter mistakenly shut down several of its activist accounts in a widespread cull of pages belonging to terrorist supporters. In an effort to rid the site of an extremist presence, Twitter has recently suspended over 125,000 accounts for 'threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS.' However, the international activist group Anonymous is now reporting that among this number were multiple member accounts, which were actively supporting the fight against the Islamic State and helping to seek out terrorist supporters and recruiters online. Twitter has typically re-opened the Anonymous accounts within a matter of hours, bombarded with requests by hacktivists and the wider online community.

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  1. Word based ban lists by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Facebook started word based ban lists few weeks back, and old posts are removed if they have such a word. Tranny is on the list, which for many mechanics wonder wtf facebook was going on about their posts being against decency rules. Also Milo's "Dangerous Faggot Tour" posts are removed due to Faggot being banned. I wonder if there are any smokers who got their posts removed too. There there is the whole Twitter going after Milo, so social media censorship is getting out of hand.

    I remember back when Microsoft banned usernames with Gay, and a bunch of people couldnt register if they had Gay in their names.

    Its like 1990's internet all over again, banned words everywhere.

    1. Re:Word based ban lists by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Its like 1990's internet all over again, banned words everywhere.

      Except this time, there's plenty of compute resources to match word closeness and plenty of world-relationship mapping databases that it ought to be fairly straightforward to semantically map (tranny,chrysler,failed) into a different bucket than hate-speech, automatically. Pure stop-lists are just lazy.

      Maybe the information-retrieval people aren't on this team.

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