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I've been closely following the revolution happening in Lebanon and I'll often see a notification like "The following media includes potentially sensitive cont

I've been closely following the revolution happening in Lebanon and I'll often see a notification like "The following media includes potentially sensitive content" for content like https://twitter.com/encrier/status/1188067004240019456 https://twitter.com/encrier/status/1188067004240019456 Which translates to * Retrieve people's money * Resignation of government * New parliament Thank you Twitter for "protecting" me from being offended. EDIT: I've been getting very angry everytime I see demands for censorship on social media, it's like people forgot they had their own revolution at some point and really needed to communicate what was happening to make it a reality.

detaro 7y ago
Given it applies to everything they post it seems, could also be that the user set the flag to apply this to all their posts automatically. (I don't think there is a way of telling the difference)
- lonelappde 7y ago
  Why would you spend the time to write a comment that takes longer to write than to debunk? https://mobile.twitter.com/encrier https://mobile.twitter.com/encrier
  - detaro 7y ago
    How does that debunk it? It shows exactly what I describe.
    - im3w1l 7y ago
      It seems to be only embedded images that show as sensitive. Not the text and not embedded tweets.
      - detaro 7y ago
        Which is exactly what the matching twitter option does: it marks media you post as "sensitive" and puts the click-through in front of it. Text and retweets aren't media, and you can't enable a filter for them (there is an profile-wide "this profile may contain potentially sensitive content" warning too, but as far as I know that is only applied by Twitter, not a user setting)
dessant 7y ago
Check "Display media that may contain sensitive content" at https://twitter.com/settings/safety https://twitter.com/settings/safety to not have certain tweets hidden by default. Users sometimes mark their tweets sensitive when they believe it may attract controversy, not just when it is genuinely disturbing.

detaro 7y ago

Given it applies to everything they post it seems, could also be that the user set the flag to apply this to all their posts automatically. (I don't think there is a way of telling the difference)

lonelappde 7y ago
Why would you spend the time to write a comment that takes longer to write than to debunk? https://mobile.twitter.com/encrier https://mobile.twitter.com/encrier
- detaro 7y ago
  How does that debunk it? It shows exactly what I describe.
  - im3w1l 7y ago
    It seems to be only embedded images that show as sensitive. Not the text and not embedded tweets.
    - detaro 7y ago
      Which is exactly what the matching twitter option does: it marks media you post as "sensitive" and puts the click-through in front of it. Text and retweets aren't media, and you can't enable a filter for them (there is an profile-wide "this profile may contain potentially sensitive content" warning too, but as far as I know that is only applied by Twitter, not a user setting)

dessant 7y ago

Check "Display media that may contain sensitive content" at https://twitter.com/settings/safety https://twitter.com/settings/safety to not have certain tweets hidden by default. Users sometimes mark their tweets sensitive when they believe it may attract controversy, not just when it is genuinely disturbing.