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This is concerning and gives the right some credibility when they claim "fake news" and "censorship".

pvg 10y ago
No it doesn't because it contains no evidence other than Scott Adams's unsubstantiated (and by this point paranoid) claims he's being censored. What he describes is flaky twitter behaviour that happens all the time. Twitter doesn't censor the overt Nazis and racists and they're singling out Scott Adams? Really?
- coldpie 10y ago
  Scott Adams is kind of a nutbar, this kind of paranoia is right up his alley. He thought Hillary Clinton was going to kill him if he said he was planning to vote against her.
  - devopsproject 10y ago
    > Scott Adams is kind of a nutbar, this kind of paranoia is right up his alley Opinion > He thought Hillary Clinton was going to kill him if he said he was planning to vote against her. An outright lie. There are plenty of things to attack the other side on. Making things up is pretty low.
    - coldpie 10y ago
      > An outright lie. As I said elsewhere before a mod exploded this thread, it was a mistake, not a lie. It doesn't change my material point that Scott Adams is a nutter and this article isn't worth discussing.
      - dang 10y ago
        I don't know what you mean by 'exploded' but mods haven't touched this thread. It has been flagged by users.
        devopsproject 10y ago
        the mods pruned it to promote civility
        coldpie 10y ago
        This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590264 Used to be a reply to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590238 It was broken into pieces, or, "exploded" :)
        dang 10y ago
        Ah I see now. You were talking about a subthread of the discussion, not the top-level story as I assumed.
Nadya 10y ago
It's also not the first time Twitter has censored things. It's been going on for years. The #GamerGate hashtag at one point, for a period of time, returned results for "wine" and "beach". A very mature and cute nod towards "whine and bitch" because a few Twitter workers were closely related to a few prominent "anti-GamerGate" people. This happened in December 2015, I don't remember the period of time it lasted (hours or days). Not to mention certain hashtags were prevented from trending or deliberately removed from the 'Trending' area. #GamerGate at one point was large enough to get any hashtag trending that they wanted. Think of it like /r/The_Donald getting to the front page of Reddit prior to the last algorithm change. It would happen and it would happen every day. Any hashtag that was "obviously #GG" would be removed from the trending list. Any hashtag "hijacked" by #GG would be removed from the trending list. Any tag #GG managed to push into trending would magically disappear not too long after - even though with their numbers they could keep a tag trending for several hours, not just several minutes. E: Also Scott Adams isn't the only one to notice this. Many pro-Trump people have checked their engagement numbers pre-inauguration day and post-inauguration day. Going from consistent 1000+ retweets/favs to < 10 with no change in behavior, just that their tweets are no longer showing in their Follower's feeds and thus no longer receiving interactions.

pvg 10y ago

No it doesn't because it contains no evidence other than Scott Adams's unsubstantiated (and by this point paranoid) claims he's being censored. What he describes is flaky twitter behaviour that happens all the time. Twitter doesn't censor the overt Nazis and racists and they're singling out Scott Adams? Really?

coldpie 10y ago
Scott Adams is kind of a nutbar, this kind of paranoia is right up his alley. He thought Hillary Clinton was going to kill him if he said he was planning to vote against her.
- devopsproject 10y ago
  > Scott Adams is kind of a nutbar, this kind of paranoia is right up his alley Opinion > He thought Hillary Clinton was going to kill him if he said he was planning to vote against her. An outright lie. There are plenty of things to attack the other side on. Making things up is pretty low.
  - coldpie 10y ago
    > An outright lie. As I said elsewhere before a mod exploded this thread, it was a mistake, not a lie. It doesn't change my material point that Scott Adams is a nutter and this article isn't worth discussing.
    - dang 10y ago
      I don't know what you mean by 'exploded' but mods haven't touched this thread. It has been flagged by users.
      - devopsproject 10y ago
        the mods pruned it to promote civility
      - coldpie 10y ago
        This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590264 Used to be a reply to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590238 It was broken into pieces, or, "exploded" :)
        dang 10y ago
        Ah I see now. You were talking about a subthread of the discussion, not the top-level story as I assumed.

Nadya 10y ago

It's also not the first time Twitter has censored things. It's been going on for years. The #GamerGate hashtag at one point, for a period of time, returned results for "wine" and "beach". A very mature and cute nod towards "whine and bitch" because a few Twitter workers were closely related to a few prominent "anti-GamerGate" people. This happened in December 2015, I don't remember the period of time it lasted (hours or days). Not to mention certain hashtags were prevented from trending or deliberately removed from the 'Trending' area. #GamerGate at one point was large enough to get any hashtag trending that they wanted. Think of it like /r/The_Donald getting to the front page of Reddit prior to the last algorithm change. It would happen and it would happen every day. Any hashtag that was "obviously #GG" would be removed from the trending list. Any hashtag "hijacked" by #GG would be removed from the trending list. Any tag #GG managed to push into trending would magically disappear not too long after - even though with their numbers they could keep a tag trending for several hours, not just several minutes. E: Also Scott Adams isn't the only one to notice this. Many pro-Trump people have checked their engagement numbers pre-inauguration day and post-inauguration day. Going from consistent 1000+ retweets/favs to < 10 with no change in behavior, just that their tweets are no longer showing in their Follower's feeds and thus no longer receiving interactions.