Comments on: Twitter Censorship: Incompetence or Malice? http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/social-media/twitter-censorship-incompetence-or-malice/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/social-media/twitter-censorship-incompetence-or-malice/comment-page-1/#comment-80649 Wed, 05 Oct 2016 14:15:38 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=16750#comment-80649 I was going by some of the names on the “Trust and Safety Council”, which didn’t appeat to include much in the way of civil liberties or press freedom advocates.

The consensus on Twitter is these suspensions are made by an algorithm which tries to identify bad users based on statistical analysis of word use and follower/following patterns, and it’s generating a lot of false positives. Which is probably the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Twitter should be better at keeping different groups who won’t play nice in the same sandbox apart.

]]> By: ObjectiveReality http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/social-media/twitter-censorship-incompetence-or-malice/comment-page-1/#comment-80641 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:28:38 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=16750#comment-80641 TBH I don’t know that this is “left-authoritarianism” so much as it is “freaking out after letting your service turn into a totally unmoderated cesspool and attempting to claw back some sense of ‘doing something’ by hitting all the soft targets at once.”

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