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:Escalation of Terms to Justify Censorship

[MightyMartian]

Well, go start your own web forum. If you don't like what Twitter does, there's a whole world out there. Go to it. But I guarantee you, if you simply allow the cranks to control your medium, it will fester into nothingness.

Re:Escalation of Terms to Justify Censorship

[AmiMoJo]

That's certainly the language of the alt-right, because their philosophy is based around victimhood. Their movement is all the more seductive if it is illicit and oppressed by the mainstream media, by Twitter and Facebook, and by their mortal enemy the Legion of SJWs.

It's also a great silencing and argument sabotaging tactic. Say you are an actual neo Nazi, and someone criticises your policy of ethnic cleansing, all you need to do is start a rant about them calling you a Nazi and a racist and how actually it's black people who are racist and they are the enemy of free speech and wouldn't it just be better if we were all white and you win. Well, at least your fellow neo Nazis think you won, and those are the opinions that matter.