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Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk)
Twitter just began rolling out "new ways to control your experience," promising the two new features "will give you more control over what you see and who you interact with on Twitter." An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from Wired UK:
First up, notification settings will allow those using Twitter on the web or on desktop to limit the notifications they receive for @ mentions, RTs, and other interactions to just be from people they follow. The feature can be turned on through the notifications tab. Twitter is also expanding its quality filter -- also accessible through notifications. "When turned on, the filter can improve the quality of Tweets you see by using a variety of signals, such as account origin and behavior," the company's product manager Emil Leong said in a blog post.
In December 2015, the company changed its rules to explicitly ban "hateful conduct" for the first time, while back in February last year, Twitter's then-CEO Dick Costolo admitted the network needed to improve how it handled trolls and abuse. In a leaked memo he said: "I'm frankly ashamed of how poorly we've dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It's absurd. There's no excuse for it. I take full responsibility for not being more aggressive on this front. It's nobody else's fault but mine, and it's embarrassing."
Meanwhile, the Twitter account of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales was hacked on Saturday.
In December 2015, the company changed its rules to explicitly ban "hateful conduct" for the first time, while back in February last year, Twitter's then-CEO Dick Costolo admitted the network needed to improve how it handled trolls and abuse. In a leaked memo he said: "I'm frankly ashamed of how poorly we've dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It's absurd. There's no excuse for it. I take full responsibility for not being more aggressive on this front. It's nobody else's fault but mine, and it's embarrassing."
Meanwhile, the Twitter account of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales was hacked on Saturday.
Yeah, no bigger haters than the SJWs themselves.
But their hate is good and not a problem at all and if everyone followed them all would be just fine!
And then they reject the idea that their ideology is a religion without a god (or the opposite that Islam is a political ideology with a god which is also called a religion, whatever.)
These idiots shouldn't censor shit. If you don't agree just reject or ignore it. If just the rest of us had such an easy solution to their shit but no, we have to suffer under it too.
I had lots of interaction on twitter until suddenly I more or less was an island.
Now I can't even access my account due to unusual activity which has made it so I had to give them my phone number but they don't allow my phone number and eventually it was blocked off (likely from me trying password reminders and trying to set the phone number multiple times.)
The assholes don't answer to support messages about the account either and give no help whatsoever.
It's such a disaster the communication of the whole world is dominated by so few players and that these anti-liberal idiots manage to have their prayers of restrictions upon freedom of thought, raising opinion, discussions, information, speech, spreading ideas and so on.
Some idiots will even make claims like "It's not freedom of speech to spread hate!", yes it is, it's a restriction of freedom of speech to now allow it, of course.
Gonna need some proof for that very serious allegation against Quinn.
The Free Speech Warriors are out in force over this one. How dare people ignore them!
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC