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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.
but they will have to start throwing the violent element off Twitter, or they will be regarded as the dumpster fire of social media.
Seeing as they are shifting from a decentralized communication/discussion system to centralized advertising/propaganda delivery system, you have to wonder will the rubes using it keep using it ? Or even notice.
Nyberg is not only a vicious troll but also a self-admitted child predator who's openly been given pictures of people's children for sexual gratification, and Quinn along with most of the others spend their entire time on twitter spewing racist and sexist hate at people inbetween rounds of doxings.
Or is this actually about policing opinions and politics and not trolling and hate speech.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
These tools are NOT meant to let me block Twitter.
I'm disappointed
Mastering the English language is fucking easy: all you have to do is to put an f* word in every fucking sentence.
"When turned on, the filter can improve the quality of Tweets you see..."
This works better than you might guess. I tried it out by sending a bunch of tweets from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton through the filter. Out the other side came tweets from Neil deGrass Tyson and Stephen Hawking.
I'm sold.
blocking Twitter.
Then what are you doing on twitter if you don't want to communicate? The whole point of twitter is to communicate to large numbers of people, not to build a one way pulpit and echochamber. All of this filtering negates the point of the site and will eventually kill it.
Welcome to Whack-A-Mole, where you get to try to keep the entire internet from saying things that other people find objectionable.
I understand their goal (and I even agree with it), but I suspect it's going to be a losing battle.
The real problem is that there are a million billion trolls and they have nothing better to do than find ways to get around twitter bans and the algorithms that try to detect unwanted behavior.
The tragedy of the commons, in other words.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Why don't you publish your phone number? Surely the point of owning a phone is to communicate. Why don't you want random people screaming abuse at you down the phone? Are you trying to create an echo chamber made up only of people you know and like?
Free Speech Warriors think everyone should be forced to listen to them, and not listening is censorship.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Anyone who disagrees with cultural Marxism.
Phone numbers are typically public information.
Is it 'screaming abuse' or simply criticism of stupid arguments from a lot of people all at once because they're hot on the topic? The long stream of responses is how twitter works. The point of twitter is to have a one-to-many interaction. These people are using the wrong medium if they don't like that. If they want the communication to remain one way, they should stick to blogs and turn the comments off.
No, free speech adherents think everyone has a right to speak their mind and support systems that allow this free exchange. The progressive censorship crowd thinks that society (or in this case, twitter/social media sites) should be responsible for shielding them from criticism while they remain free to lambast and police everyone else. Unfortunately, twitter has chosen the latter path with their 'trust and safety' council.
They want a conversation, but that's hard when all you get is people tweeting photos of apes at you, then doxing you for good measure.
Real life debates have moderators for a reason.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I'm not making any claims here. I'm certainly not alleging mass oppression. I'm just asking you to support your position.
Stop avoiding the question. Support your position with evidence or abandon it, or just admit it's a religion and all done on faith.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
The problem is that you're letting a third party control for you what you get to read.
It's their definition of "hate speech" being applied here, which could be something along the lines of "every mention to a product rival to the one on our payroll", or "mention to an event your local government want covered".
Moderators in real life can be argued with and generally have to adhere to strict rules.
Twitter moderators would be like having an debate where the moderators are hidden snipers in the audience with sleeping darts, and that are allowed to "moderate" whatever they define as hate speech.
The filter idea is not that bad, but it should be under the control of the user itself, rather than being something defined by "the invisible hand".
Basically you define the words that indicate that its not an subject you don't want to talk about, and the bot use some smart detection to detect obvious filter breaking stuff like n1gger instead of you know, the actual word and that's it.
Of course, you could also have an ready made anti harassment pack with a big list of words but, this list should also be visible to the user, to avoid things like AMD being a banned word.
...when "hateful" is defined by a people with a certain set of beliefs.
The DOJ should crush Twitter as tacitly accepting responsibility for their content.
-Styopa
AmiMoJo is asking for evidence regarding Shadow of Eternity's claims about Zoe Quinn. Curiously, nobody can provide it. Funny, huh?
Instead of helping users close their eyes and ears, Twitter needs to help users kick people out of their cocktail parties.
Twitter can fix Twitter with just a few lines of code
https://jesterscourt.cc/2016/08/15/twitter-can-fix-twitter-just-lines-code/
tl;dr:
If you block someone that should also prevent them from @mentioning your user name
The filter doesn't use words. It filters re-tweets, duplicates and bot accounts. Since most of the harassment relies on mobbing by re-tweet and duplicate posts, it's actually quite effective.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
No no, it happened, it just wouldn't be ethical to provide evidence of accusations.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Well, it ifs a weapon against automation like that, then i see no issue whatsoever.
Phone numbers are typically public information.
There is no public information linking epyT-R with a phone number. Unless you happen to really like echo chambers and censorship, post your number here.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Twitter has gone from openness to protection of the leftist message with these updates.
If you're a minority, a certain leftist bent, or even a terrorist, they will let you harass to your heart's content. If you're anyone else, you get called on it.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Doesn't work that way. Oh, and get your facts straight, since Nyberg is a different person.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Ouch. I had a very similar experience, but all I said was that sexual liberation doesn't mean that sexism is over. It all went downhill from there very fast, ending a week later with me being called a multitude of ableist and racial slurs by people who consider changing box art a threat to free speech.
What do you feel like you're accomplishing here?
Is this some sort of cathartic release for you? Do you feel better about having no argument and no leg to stand on after you yell out lazy threats on the internet?
I never, ever use blog posts as evidence. I only link to them when they lay out an argument in greater detail than a comment allows, or when they have multiple reliable references.
Provide some evidence, or at least show where I have used blogs and social media as evidence in the way you suggest.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
If Twitter wants me to use it more they need to up the 140 character limit. I don't need 5000 characters, but 1000 feels reasonable. As a 49 year-old I'm incapable of writing like a 15-year-old. Nt only cn I nt wrt twts lik ths, I cant rd them eithr.
It doesn't matter how often AmiMoJo is shown the evidence, s/he dismisses the source as it isn't a SJW media source (which of course would not publish about the issue). The evidence is incredibly easy to find, and claiming it doesn't exist because you don't like the source is what the poster above is pointing out.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
The evidence I have provided previously was of the exact type you just spoke of, yet you dismissed it. You don't want evidence of the bad behavior, you just want to stick your head in the sand and at like it doesn't exist. I have provided all the evidence needed, yet you continue to act like it doesn't exist.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Twitter is losing users. The company thinks it's because people say nasty things to feminists. I think they are misdiagnosing the problem. The real problem with Twitter is that its primary function these days is social signaling because that's really all you can do in 140 characters. That, and it also functions as a status symbol among minor celebrities, who like to increase their notoriety and number of followers through fake controversies and trolling. For both of those functions, it is actually essential for people to be able to get angry about something. Stop people from saying mean things on Twitter and Twitter users will lose interest even faster.
I think Twitter is basically a lost cause: even without heavy-handed attempts at censoring content, the political bias and shallowness of the platform has already turned it into little more than an echo chamber.