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I don't even understand the joke, it doesn't seem funny. The original comic isn't funny either. >haha women have to do what we say. I'd flag that too tbh. Cle

by foxes 4y ago

I don't even understand the joke, it doesn't seem funny. The original comic isn't funny either. >haha women have to do what we say. I'd flag that too tbh. Clearly posting a linux command in a vacuum is not going to get your account locked (nice clickbait title though), there is the whole context of a shitty joke. If you don't at least acknowledge that the joke could be interpreted wrong, but instead mald on your blog, and ramble on HN about muh free speech elon mask blah blah censorship, you should probably have your account banned.

lapcat 4y ago
The joke was "interpreted wrong" by an algorithm, probably just some pattern matching with the words "kill" and "all". "The Twitter violation algorithm took 3 minutes to detect, flag, lock my account, and send me an email. There is no way a human can read tweets so fast, so it’s a violation detection bot army doing at work. Doing this at scale means all tweets are following some fast regex, and likely, an AI is getting trained and making decisions."
- foxes 4y ago
  And they appealed and then Twitter decided to uphold the decision. What is wrong with an AI doing some flagging? I've seen plenty of people say "killed" "kill" etc on Twitter in the context of news stories. Those accounts don't get banned. Sample size N=1 for an AI flagging your weird tweet, even if it was okay, out of thousands of tweets doesn't seem a bad hit rate. Let's also not ignore the tweet and the thread is a really shitty joke. Then you go on to make a huge deal out of it? Just delete your dumb joke and move on.
  - lapcat 4y ago
    > And they appealed and then Twitter decided to uphold the decision. Does Twitter ever not uphold its own decisions? I have serious doubts whether an intelligent human ever looks at these cases. > Let's also not ignore the tweet and the thread is a really shitty joke. Then you go on to make a huge deal out of it? Just delete your dumb joke and move on. There are several problems. One: "By clicking Delete, you acknowledge that your Tweet violated the Twitter Rules." This is a forced confession of an innocent person. You don't see a problem with that? Another problem: You're forced to hand over your phone number to Twitter if you haven't yet. The same thing happened to me last year. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/twitter4.html https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/twitter4.html Just a few days ago, Twitter was fined (not enough) by the FTC for abusing the 2FA phone numbers of Twitter users for advertising purposes. https://www.engadget.com/ftc-twitter-targeted-advertising-215320214.html https://www.engadget.com/ftc-twitter-targeted-advertising-21...
AdrianB1 4y ago
For any joke you can possibly say, you will find someone that will be offended. Flagging jokes you don't like or don't understand is part of the cancel culture?
josephcsible 4y ago
You shouldn't get banned for telling a joke just because it isn't funny.

by foxes 4y ago

lapcat 4y ago

The joke was "interpreted wrong" by an algorithm, probably just some pattern matching with the words "kill" and "all". "The Twitter violation algorithm took 3 minutes to detect, flag, lock my account, and send me an email. There is no way a human can read tweets so fast, so it’s a violation detection bot army doing at work. Doing this at scale means all tweets are following some fast regex, and likely, an AI is getting trained and making decisions."

foxes 4y ago
And they appealed and then Twitter decided to uphold the decision. What is wrong with an AI doing some flagging? I've seen plenty of people say "killed" "kill" etc on Twitter in the context of news stories. Those accounts don't get banned. Sample size N=1 for an AI flagging your weird tweet, even if it was okay, out of thousands of tweets doesn't seem a bad hit rate. Let's also not ignore the tweet and the thread is a really shitty joke. Then you go on to make a huge deal out of it? Just delete your dumb joke and move on.
- lapcat 4y ago
  > And they appealed and then Twitter decided to uphold the decision. Does Twitter ever not uphold its own decisions? I have serious doubts whether an intelligent human ever looks at these cases. > Let's also not ignore the tweet and the thread is a really shitty joke. Then you go on to make a huge deal out of it? Just delete your dumb joke and move on. There are several problems. One: "By clicking Delete, you acknowledge that your Tweet violated the Twitter Rules." This is a forced confession of an innocent person. You don't see a problem with that? Another problem: You're forced to hand over your phone number to Twitter if you haven't yet. The same thing happened to me last year. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/twitter4.html https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/twitter4.html Just a few days ago, Twitter was fined (not enough) by the FTC for abusing the 2FA phone numbers of Twitter users for advertising purposes. https://www.engadget.com/ftc-twitter-targeted-advertising-215320214.html https://www.engadget.com/ftc-twitter-targeted-advertising-21...

AdrianB1 4y ago

For any joke you can possibly say, you will find someone that will be offended. Flagging jokes you don't like or don't understand is part of the cancel culture?

josephcsible 4y ago

You shouldn't get banned for telling a joke just because it isn't funny.