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Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by amelius »

tivert wrote: post #92
amelius wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By the way, it's stupid that we still can't have user-defined emoticons. We could have enriched our online culture with a flourishing set of shared emoticons by now!

> By the way, it's stupid that we still can't have user-defined [emojis]. Emojis should have only been embedded user-defined pngs. I know I'm being cranky and old, but I feel our character sets shouldn't have been used to encode novel cute pictures.

Yes. The problem is that it assumes that language is fixed. However, the correct way is to make emojis freely definable, so that the emoji language will continue to develop; of course, the unfortunate side-effect for character set maintainers would be that they have to expand the set in order to incorporate the new parts of the language. But that is their problem; you can't force a population to use a limited set of symbols.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by nascar_is_bad »

hueving wrote: post #107
moduspol wrote: post #74

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“More capable of selective application of empathy” is how I’d describe it usually, but that’s neither here nor there.

Everyone applies "selective empathy". People on the left in the US care very little about employees of coal miners, oil companies, etc because of larger environmental concerns. In every case, there is some "more important cause" that someone prioritizes that makes it look like they don't have empathy.

Is that why Obama created a job retraining program for them? Because he cares very little for them? Or is it actually because he cares for them MORE than conservatives who want to lead them even further down the path of dependence on a dying industry.

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Post by hueving »

eropple wrote: post #91
orbifold wrote: post #69

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You can be super emphatic an right wing, how do you think someone becomes a populist nationalist. Besides from a European perspective even someone like Obama or even more obviously Hillary (based on the amount of war mongering she has done alone) is center or ultra right.

> You can be super emphatic an right wing, how do you think someone becomes a populist nationalist. At the bottom? Fear of the other; in the United States, fear of the other rooted particularly in racism. Because it's not "nationalism" here--a disease by itself, but a controllable one. It's white supremacism , given nicer clothes by calling it "white nationalism" for some godforsaken reason, peddled by leaders who wa…

Nationalism and white supremacism are not the same thing at all. Equating them and needlessly injecting race into it is bog standard Russian divisive propaganda.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by ceejayoz »

jtbayly wrote: post #36
ceejayoz wrote: post #9

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> it's pretty common for conservatives to encounter ... censorship from other users of social media sites How, exactly? Is Facebook doling out admin privileges to random users? Or are we confusing "receive criticism" with "censorship" here?

The exact same way it happens on this site: users flag, system automatically responds, moderators might also respond, and if they do, typically it is to confirm censorship that has already begun.

My understanding of Facebook flagging is that repeated flags move it up in the queue, but do not initiate automated removal. So, if 500 people flag your post about fluffy unicorns as a death threat, it'll be checked in a few minutes instead of a week from now, but it'll likely be reviewed as OK and remain up the entire time.

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Post by ceejayoz »

dingo_bat wrote: post #66
luddit3 wrote: post #43

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Clinton campaign did not do the same thing. All they did was elephant and donkey for the conventions. Looks like it the rights victim complex again.

They got a custom icon.

So did the Republican National Convention. Take a look at the screenshot in the article.

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Post by dingo_bat »

wybiral wrote: post #82
dingo_bat wrote: post #66

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They got a custom icon.

But not a custom icon as part of an attack ad calling one of the candidates a criminal. There is a subtle difference.

So Twitter is censoring based on the CEO's views. That's exactly my point.

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Post by amelius »

yellow_postit wrote: post #105
amelius wrote: post #77

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By the way, it's stupid that we still can't have user-defined emoticons. We could have enriched our online culture with a flourishing set of shared emoticons by now!

You can change system emoji on windows as a font. If it’s a custom defined emoji meant for sharing isn’t that what gifs get used for most days?

Nope. You basically want inline emojis, in Whatsapp, because that's the most popular messaging service. And you want to be able to click other people's emojis and save them to your own emoji library.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by dingo_bat »

amelius wrote: post #77
dingo_bat wrote: post #30

And it's true. Case in point: the gun emoticon.

By the way, it's stupid that we still can't have user-defined emoticons. We could have enriched our online culture with a flourishing set of shared emoticons by now!

It's called jpg.

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Post by pjc50 »

amelius wrote: post #77
dingo_bat wrote: post #30

And it's true. Case in point: the gun emoticon.

By the way, it's stupid that we still can't have user-defined emoticons. We could have enriched our online culture with a flourishing set of shared emoticons by now!

GIFs.
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