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Found the story for you, conveniently dated today and published by AP so you don't have to wonder if it's fake news. "Also on Tuesday, Twitter said it's creati
by sverige 10y ago
Found the story for you, conveniently dated today and published by AP so you don't have to wonder if it's fake news.
"Also on Tuesday, Twitter said it's creating a "safe search" feature that removes tweets with potentially sensitive content and tweets from blocked and muted accounts from search results. The tweets will still exist on Twitter if people look for them, but won't appear in general search results.
Twitter is also making some replies less visible so only the most relevant conversations surface."
This is exactly what Scott Adams and commenters above complained about, and what others doubted or dismissed as technical glitches. Turns out it's not a technical problem, it's policy.
Sure, Twitter has the right to do it. But please don't dismiss the serious questions about whether they ought to do it and expect me to take you seriously. To my knowledge, unlike the tweets of Islamic terrorists that caused some of their accounts to be deleted, there has been no violence associated with the speech of the "alt-right". There has been violence on the "antifa" side with associated tweets, but there is no mention in the article of any of those accounts being shut down.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_TWITTER_ABUSE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-02-07-09-03-50 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_TWITTER_ABUSE?...
- dkonofalski 10y agoThese 2 things aren't the same at all. The article is talking about tweets being excluded from search results and users being banned from creating additional accounts. Adams is talking about tweets being censored by claiming that they're unavailable when they are. He wasn't talking about either a search or a specific user being banned, only tweets being censored.
- sverige 10y agoFrom TFA: "The video describes how Twitter gives a fake message that some tweets are no longer available, to discourage you from clicking to them. The tweets still exist, and you can access them by directly clicking the links in the tweets, but most people would not think to do that." From the article I quoted: "Twitter is also making some replies less visible so only the most relevant conversations surface." Sounds like the same thing to me.
- dkonofalski 10y agoWay to cherry pick. The article you quoted is talking about search results. That's exactly what I said in my reply to you. You're pretending like they're the same thing when they're not.
- sverige 10y agoYou probably won't see this, but Scott Adams and I are not the only ones to notice this. Stay on the right side of the narrative, though; you wouldn't want to run afoul of the powers that be. https://freedomandfulfilment.com/twitter-censorship-free-speech/ https://freedomandfulfilment.com/twitter-censorship-free-spe...