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Twitter Will Now Warn You If You Are About to Post Wrongthink
Breitbart ^ | 5/6/2020 | ALLUM BOKHARI

Posted on 05/08/2020 1:51:11 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Are you about to post a tweet containing “harmful” language? Don’t worry — Twitter is experimenting with a feature that will warn you ahead of time, so you don’t accidentally infect any users with your wrongthink.

“When things get heated, you may say things you don’t mean,” wrote Twitter’s official support account in a tweet yesterday. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before it’s published if it uses language that could be harmful.”

It’s a bit like “precrime” in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. Twitter will notice when you’re about to use a bad word, giving you the chance to avoid a rule violation and save your account from the digital gulag.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1984; bigbrother; chatforum; doubleplusungood; groupthink; internet; newspeak; technotyranny; twitter; twittercensorship; ungood; wrongthink
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1984 = 2020
1 posted on 05/08/2020 1:51:11 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Don't be a baby just because you read or hear something you don't like:


2 posted on 05/08/2020 1:52:11 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Twitter? Ha! Kiss my ass. Just pucker up and...kiss my ass.


3 posted on 05/08/2020 1:53:49 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If liberals had a conscience, they would wouldn't be liberals.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Will there be a list of bad words?

Will SEMPRINI be among them?


4 posted on 05/08/2020 1:54:59 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Jesus is Lord. (Now, THERE’S hate speech!)


5 posted on 05/08/2020 1:57:43 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Thankfully I don’t do Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. Never have, and I never will.


6 posted on 05/08/2020 2:02:48 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Happens on NextDoor (like Facebook just for neighbors) all the time. Seems to detect anything “harmful” especially if it’s a “political” thread - i.e., basically anything COVID now.

Cautions you that you might want to rethink your reply.


7 posted on 05/08/2020 2:04:12 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t let you do that.”


8 posted on 05/08/2020 2:04:34 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Had to check to make sure this was not from the Babylon Bee.


9 posted on 05/08/2020 2:05:39 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Jan_Sobieski

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3842878/posts


10 posted on 05/08/2020 2:05:51 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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ANTI social media, more like.

Sieg f'n heil, baby !

11 posted on 05/08/2020 2:07:17 PM PDT by tomkat (militant curmudgeon)
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Have they coined a new phrase? Wrongthink? Who gets to choose what that entails?


12 posted on 05/08/2020 2:08:05 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: mass55th

Neither do I....And I’m happy. Email between family and friends works for me.


13 posted on 05/08/2020 2:09:20 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: lonevoice

Did you know about this? Are you still going to use Twitter?


14 posted on 05/08/2020 2:10:42 PM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: Jan_Sobieski

‘China-virus’ and ‘Kung-Flu’ we get you a warning


15 posted on 05/08/2020 2:35:06 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Wear your face homemade coverings (not a N95 please) when you zoom into work to show you care.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I know all about NextDoor. I use it occasionally to stand up to the handful of idiotic liberals in my town of 50,000. Suddenly I was getting a warning to “be kind” in my replies to the lies and insults posted about Trump. I tried to be as factual as possible and refrained from making ad hominem comments about posters, but I’ve been suspended twice because of “feelings.”

I know it’s ridiculous and pointless to waste any more time on ND trying to educate progressive cretins, but I’ll still post there occasionally I’m sure. It’s just pathetic that liberals trying to silence conservative voices on social media and in society have been this successful.

16 posted on 05/08/2020 2:45:13 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Jerry...Jerry...Jerry...)
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In political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and media bias .

Consideration of the use of reprinted material including handouts and flyers such as of articles in FR and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.

political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and bias .Comsideration of the use of printed material and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.


17 posted on 05/08/2020 2:52:25 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

AMERICAN! DUMP TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND U TUBE


18 posted on 05/08/2020 2:57:09 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Fakebook did it to me last week saying it wasn’t a valid site, bit it was very valid


19 posted on 05/08/2020 2:57:17 PM PDT by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool, and the DNC wacked Seth Rich)
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20 posted on 05/08/2020 2:59:19 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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