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Twitter is giving its users new powers to block internet trolls

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Re: Twitter is giving its users new powers to block internet trolls

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It sounds more like the "Good Game Auto Blocker," [1] by that wonderful human being Randi "freebsdgirl" Harper [2]. It will block people on your Twitter account who are on a list of accounts believed to be associated with the #GamerGate movement, though it's known to have been overzealous at times, including an account operated by KFC in its lists [3] to much amusement. (This list seems to be generated by checking an…

It's interesting it contains a list of people in sourcelist.txt and code like this: # get a list of idiots open B, ' ) { chomp; push @idiots, $_; } close B; I'd imagine calling people idiots via source code is against the GitHub TOS.

> I'd imagine calling people idiots via source code is against the GitHub TOS.

Not specifically. They have two clauses however that open it to a strictly subjective determination. First, they reserve the right to cancel any account, at any time, for any reason. Second, they have sections regarding offensive content (G.7/8), that gives them the right to remove such at their discretion.

Re: Twitter is giving its users new powers to block internet trolls

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I wonder if the implementation of these tools will be similar to something already happening on Reddit, where users that comment/post on hate subreddits are automatically banned from many other places on the site.

It sounds more like the "Good Game Auto Blocker," [1] by that wonderful human being Randi "freebsdgirl" Harper [2]. It will block people on your Twitter account who are on a list of accounts believed to be associated with the #GamerGate movement, though it's known to have been overzealous at times, including an account operated by KFC in its lists [3] to much amusement. (This list seems to be generated by checking an…

The mistake Harper, Richards, Kane and many others make is failing to distinguish being disliked because of their gender, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other minority status and being disliked because they are assholes.
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