Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls (cnbc.com)

Twitter is cracking down even harder against trolls, including temporarily barring accounts that are harassing other users. From a report: In a blog posted Wednesday, Twitter's vice president of engineering, Ed Ho, announced more safety measures to stop abuse on its platform. One of the methods includes using the company's internal algorithms to identify problematic accounts and limiting certain account functions -- such as only allowing the aggressor to see their followers -- for a set period of time if they engaged in troublesome behavior. Twitter said it was also open to further action if the harassment continued. Other anti-trolling tools include new filters to let users see what kinds of content they want to view from certain accounts and well as allowing people to "mute" tweets based on keywords, phrases or entire conversations.

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Re:oh no my hugbox

[Chas]

Apparently you have no clue what censorship is.

Nobody's saying you have freedom of speech on Twitter.

That doesn't mean you still can't have issues with censorship.

And Twitter most definitely DOES.

Fuck twitter.

[penandpaper]

Twitter? You mean the internet company that doesn't understand the internet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No Thank You. I don't need a Trust and Safety council anymore than a Ministry of Truth.

Re:Fuck twitter.

[geek]

Twitter? You mean the internet company that doesn't understand the internet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No Thank You. I don't need a Trust and Safety council anymore than a Ministry of Truth.

Its really fascinating to me to watch this. Twitter like the Democrat party is doubling down on all of the things that are responsible for their decline.

When I was a teenager I was pulled over for speeding and had a list of excuses I decided to work through from top to bottom. After about 5 minutes the officer said to me calmly, "When you find yourself in a ditch the best thing to do is quit digging."

A lesson Liberals desperately need to learn.

Escalation of Terms to Justify Censorship

[Kunedog]

They use terms to mean whatever they want anyway.

Disagreement is now harrassment.
Mockery is now hate speech.
Offense is now trauma.
Criticism is now abuse.
Compelling criticism is now violence.
Anyone who talks about subjects the MSM wants to suppress is now a troll.
Anyone at random is a racist/sexist/white supremacist/nazi/etc if they say so.

The use of this alarmist (and usually, simply wrong) language is ubiquitous and deliberate. It's all a pretense to justify a disproportionate censorial "response," especially when they know no response is warranted at all. It's also a brazenly transparent tactic, especially since Twitter/Reddit/etc rarely seem to use it against users that properly align with their politics.

Re:oh no my hugbox

[lgw]

Government censorship is illegal. That's the big distinction.

That's a distinction. Other interesting distinctions are: desirable, moral, etc.

Twitter is a big platform. Their censorship is generally harmful and undesirable. We'd be better off without their blatant political bias, for all that they're legally entitled to it.