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Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by mikem170 »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #126
Traster wrote: post #29

I love the sheer number of hacker news commenters saying “Well I tried it, seems to work”. At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”

This is neat to look at from a psychological perspective. I bet there's a pretty good correlation between the people who see everyone else go, "yep, works as reported" and decides to try it for themselves anyway, and people who aren't easily convinced by research or science in other subjects.

To be fair, that correlation would probably cut both ways. For example, the people who don't decide to try things for themselves being more susceptible to being swayed by propaganda.

Interesting to look at, as you said. I assume that different personality types evolved because that made us more robust as a species.

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Post by [deleted] »

croes wrote: post #162
dragonwriter wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's simply not true, evangelization is hard and requires connection to personal experience much more the convincing people of wet paint does, and it requires connecting it to personal experience for which people haven’t already accepted a better explanation, which is a lot harder than with “the paint is wet”. You don't just tell people “God exists” and they're like “Oh, sure, thanks.” (Well, except perhaps sarcast…

Yes you do, that's how children get indoctrinated.

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Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by mountainb »

ve55 wrote: post #55

In general it seems like moderating platforms with millions/billions of users is a fool's errand, but is required to be attempted due to the level of centralization we've ended up with. Regardless of how much of it is automated away via blackbox ML algorithms lacking transparency or via outsourcing to cheap labor that spends their days looking at terribly offensive and shocking content, the end result is going to hav…

It's a modern reliving of the myth of the Tower of Babel.

Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by billrobertson42 »

JdeBP wrote: post #160
billrobertson42 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't appear to be locked now.

Apparently the company has very recently tweeted that a "bug" causing this has now been fixed.

Good for them. Bug, mistake, bad data, or whatever. Glad they fixed it.

Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by andybak »

umeshunni wrote: post #185
outside1234 wrote: post #171

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You should add China to your list of repressive government moderation - would be more complete that way.

It's only repressive government moderation when someone else does it. When it happens in the US, it's "policing hate speech".

That's a fair argument but only if you embrace the logical conclusion of the stance you are taking.

If you are arguing for unbridled free speech then fair enough (Personally I wouldn't but we can have that conversaion).

If however you have your own feelings about sane limits on free speech - then you can't take this position without someone else using your argument against you.

It's fine to make these kind of grand statements but I'd like you to clearly state that you're going all the way with it and not just being slightly less inconsistent than the person you're calling out.

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Post by leephillips »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #146
GhostVII wrote: post #121

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Why not have user curated and shareable blocklists? So if I never want to see anything from Alex Jones or Milo Yiannopoulos and the like, I just subscribe to a blocklist that eliminates far right commentators. You could even create networks of trusted users where anyone they block, is blocked for everyone in the network. Or have shareable rulesets, like "block anyone who uses this word", or "block anyone who follows…

Why isn’t it sufficient to not follow Alex Jones? I’ve never seen a tweet by him. Twitter is one of the least pushy platforms in algorithmically pushing content. Just follow people you want to see content from, and unfollow if they tweet things you don’t want to see.

There is an even better way. Never look at your timeline, so never see any pushed material at all: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by leshenka »

i_have_an_idea wrote: post #106

Yeah, can confirm. It does work. I don't suggest trying it, as unlocking your account requires phone no. and email verification... yikes.

I tried to create a Twitter account once. 5 minutes after creation it got suspended and unlocking required a phone no. Same goes for Facebook

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Post by fakename11 »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #195
WillPostForFood wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why isn’t it sufficient to not follow Alex Jones? I’ve never seen a tweet by him. Twitter is one of the least pushy platforms in algorithmically pushing content. Just follow people you want to see content from, and unfollow if they tweet things you don’t want to see.

No, it's not enough. Twitter constantly showes me nudes that are liked by some people I follow. I hate this feature. They should be an option to limit your feed only to the people you follow, but it is unlikely we'll see it because it contradicts the platform aim to increase engagement, by hook or by crook.

Follow better people? (Or at least don't follow their "personal" accounts)

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Post by erikpukinskis »

cbozeman wrote: post #165
ve55 wrote: post #55

In general it seems like moderating platforms with millions/billions of users is a fool's errand, but is required to be attempted due to the level of centralization we've ended up with. Regardless of how much of it is automated away via blackbox ML algorithms lacking transparency or via outsourcing to cheap labor that spends their days looking at terribly offensive and shocking content, the end result is going to hav…

There is no way to moderate the entire world. The sooner everyone alive accepts this, the better off we will be. The values of a Black lesbian female software developer who grew up in San Francisco and went to Stanford will never be compatible with the values of a Hispanic straight male Marine officer who grew up in San Antonio and went to Texas Christian University and has been deployed to 17 different countries. Ho…

I am not sure I understand your claim... there are many global-scale companies that do moderate their entire site... Google, Reddit, Amazon.

Are you trying to make a more specific claim than your post lets on? Maybe that it’s impossible to moderate without making some concession you don’t prefer? Or it’s impossible to moderate away certain kinds of things?

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