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Twitter Deploys Draconian Shadowban “Behavioral” Filters

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Editor’s Note: Perhaps the reporting tools Twitter and Facebook are implementing will result in no one being able to post on the platforms at all at some point…because it sure sounds like this could erupt into many users reporting everything they don’t agree with as abusive…ultimately making both sites entirely useless.

While this article refers to “conservatives” being in an uproar over the filters, libertarians and other non-conservatives will surely be impacted as well. Twitter and Facebook are both private companies and do have the right to control how their platforms are used, but is that in the best interest of society? Uncomfortable conversations need to be held if we want to progress. Censoring those who disagree doesn’t make them go away…it only makes them more vocal.

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Conservative Twitter users are in an uproar over draconian new “behavioral filters” which will start hiding tweets that “detract from the conversation,” and which CEO Jack Dorsey says are designed to “significantly reduce the ability to game and skew our systems” (less than six months before midterms, we might add).

“A lot of our past action has been content-based, and we have been shifting more and more toward conduct and behaviors on the system,” Dorsey said in a Monday briefing at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.

“Directionally, it does point to probably our biggest impact change,” Dorsey said. “This is a step, but we can see this going quite far.”

Dorsey says he will do a periscope soon about the changes.

Sounds great Jack!

Facebook, meanwhile, is beefing up its reporting tools within the Messenger app. 

An app update for Messenger includes enhanced reporting tools – allowing mobile users to report harassment or someone who isn’t who they say they are (or jerk ex boyfriends). Users can find the new option in the Contact menu for each messenger conversation by tapping on the name of the person inside the chat, scrolling down to the “Something’s Wrong” option, and choosing from a list of offenses to report.

“Providing more granular reporting options in Messenger makes it faster and easier to report things for our Community Operations team to review,” write Hadi Michel, Messenger product manager. “They review reports in over 50 languages. This means our community will see issues addressed faster so they can continue to have positive experiences on Messenger.”

One can imagine how much fun High Schoolers and your average Tinder users are going to have with this reporting feature every time they get dumped, doubled-crossed or otherwise made upset.

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