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Account for "Yes, You're Racist" gets locked by Twitter for Retweeting racist tweet 4 years ago.
- Thread starter Volimar
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Given that it's the old style of RT where it has you basically repost the text to your account I'm not surprised. Their automation just caught it as them saying it themselves.
He didnt retweet it though? He just reposted it with an "RT" in front of it.. of course that'd get him banned lmao
*meanwhile hundreds of thousands Russian bot accounts run rampant in an attempt to undermine the November election*
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It used to be the only way you could retweet. Why do you think the racists went back so far to find posts to report?
It's ingrained or stems from fear, it's not like most people wake up and go "I think I'm going to be racist now."
Easier to blame your problems on someone else, particularly a large subset of people, than take personal responsibility for the failures of one's life.
Human beings are hardwired to fear what's different. And then society normalizes those fears.
Oh, I see now. Didnt realize it was a post from 4 years ago. I thought he did this -now- but the thing he "retweeted" was from 4 years ago. My bad.
Wait, what? This Tweet is from 2014. Twitter added the native Retweet button in 2009.
https://blog.bufferapp.com/the-4-different-ways-to-retweet-someone-which-one-is-best-for-you
People would still do the old "RT" method after that for numerous reasons (which are expanded upon in that link above).
Fuck Twitter. Really.
They need to fix their priorities because it is really helping with radicalising and allowing garbage to fester.
They need to fix their priorities because it is really helping with radicalising and allowing garbage to fester.
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Yeah, just saw that.
Jack Dorsey has been pretty open lately about his embracing the far/alt-right as traffic drivers for twitter
That's they way you retweeted if you wanted to keep the tweet incase someone tried to delete it. Twitter is in the wrong here. If they actually cared about banning racists, they would have banned 45 years ago.
doesn't he follow a few of them as well? initially I'd thought maybe he was worried about gab getting traffic (haha!) but could be more than that
Yeah, that's the answer here. It took that long for the system to catch it. But the system was also programmed terribly to not recognize the RT followed by the @name as an old style retweet.
Nowadays when you want to retweet something without fear of it getting deleted, you just tweet a screenshot.
Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook are fully culpable with the destabilization of American social norms and the perpetuation of White Supremacy.
It will not change because irregardless, a white supremacist is still considered a user for their metrics. Money is more important to them than having class.
It will not change because irregardless, a white supremacist is still considered a user for their metrics. Money is more important to them than having class.
I think racists are responsible for perpetuating racism. Those sites are just highly visible platforms for said racists. I'm not even sure if it would be technically or financially feasible to moderate out all racism on sites with that much content, or even most of it. You would need a human moderator to read every single post in context.
Somewhat of an excuse.
We've seen plenty of examples of these users violating the TOS with their rhetoric and resulting in no action.
We've also seen plenty of examples of users reporting injustice and instances of racism getting banned under the same TOS clauses that bigots are immune to.
All 4 promote that same behavior. Nobody wants to do anything.
Also a blanket ban on racial slurs is going to take out more trash than benign users with need of context. Think about the platforms were talking about.
And yet, actual racists and Nazis remain.
Fuck Twitter. That I'm forced to use it breaks my heart every day.
Eeeyup. I consider Jack Dorsey and his ilk to be dangerous individuals.
Fuck Twitter. That I'm forced to use it breaks my heart every day.
Eeeyup. I consider Jack Dorsey and his ilk to be dangerous individuals.
Worthless people unwilling to do anything else to define themselves. "I may not be much but at least I'm no ______" is all some people aspire to.
No calling out that lady who attacked an old man and told him to go back to Mexico? I guess they don't want to have to take another break.
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