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Twitter Is Working On Anti-Harassment Keyword Filtering Tool, Says Report (bloomberg.com)
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made it a top priority for company to limit hateful conduct. In late December 2015, for example, the company changed its rules to explicitly ban "hateful conduct" for the first time. A new report says Twitter is working to further curb the rise of hateful conduct as it is "working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter the posts they see, giving users a more effective way to block out harassing and offensive tweets." Bloomberg reports: "The San Francisco-based company has been discussing how to implement the tool for about a year as it seeks to stem abuse on the site, said the people [familiar with the matter], who asked not to be identified because the initiative isn't public. By using keywords, users could block swear words or racial slurs, for example, to screen out offenders. The filtering tool could eventually become a moderator for any kind of content, the people said. For example, users could block a hashtag about an event they don't care to read about."
The problem for Twitter is there just aren't enough Feminists/SJWs out there to keep a dying social media platform alive.
So is the only draw of Twitter the opportunity to harass Feminists/SJWs?
Because that's the only piece of functionality you'll actually lose with these changes.
If you're harassing someone and they don't want to hear you anymore that's not "Feminist/SJW" talk, that's just common sense.
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I don't even use Twitter, but it sounds like they'll just end up making a clbuttic mistake.
On the contrary doing nothing would be a mistake.
The risk twitter faces isn't being taken over by "Feminists" and "SJWs", it's harassment driving ordinary people away until there's nothing left but the alt-right.
It's the same decision reddit made, there's some communities that are simply unable to co-exist in the same ecosystem.
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