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I had a bot once, which would tweet a single word from the 300k most used words in German every 15 minutes (there is a corpus for that). The bot even had "Bot"
by MrGilbert 7y ago
I had a bot once, which would tweet a single word from the 300k most used words in German every 15 minutes (there is a corpus for that). The bot even had "Bot" in it's name.
It got striked several times by Twitter because of "hate-speech". Yes, the words were unfiltered - of course. That's language. The longest strike lasted for 5 days. It goes without saying that I disputed every single strike to no avail.
I finally took the bot down.
- lucasmullens 7y agoI mean, in German you can cram a pretty large amount of hateful information into a single word, since many words are a combination of words. I'd be curious to see what specifically was flagged.
- MrGilbert 7y agoWell, mostly related to 1933 - 1945 references, if I recall it correct. Basically the "N-Word"-category, but related to jewish people. I think one tweet also said "Judenvernichtung" ("extermination of the Jews"). So, yeah, in hindsight, I should have modified the corpus. But at that time, around 2017, I was pretty angry at how Twitter handled these strikes. P.S.: The account is still online and has 775 followers. Maybe I should revive it in a more "harmless" way. It was fun.
- lopmotr 7y agoIf your intent was to show the most commonly used German words, then modifying the corpus for political or rule-breaking reasons kind of takes away its value, doesn't it? Twitter just isn't a place that tolerates all cultures the way an impartial academic would.
- MrGilbert 7y agoYes, indeed, that was the intention. Also having a long-running kind of „art installation“. End was projected for 2024. I thought about rebuilding it as a website. It could also work if I‘d use the ”fediverse“. Mhm, gets me thinking...
- jsjddbbwj 7y agoLiterally the definition of censorship.
- gowld 7y agoYes censorship is a major part of fighting Nazis in the largest war ever held on Earth.