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[Orange Wizard]

Damn it, these violent liberals. Always the initiators of violence and arguments on the internet and in real life. Unlike Conservatives, they're generally the most deranged and bloodthirsty groups you'll come across, and they've the guns to indulge their weird and sick fantasies on anyone who opposes them. A plague on them, I say! Such animals!

And they don't even have an ounce of self-awareness in their baying for blood and witch hunting of the opposition!

... how many layers of irony are here, exactly?

[Sonlirain]

Damn it, these violent liberals. Always the initiators of violence and arguments on the internet and in real life. Unlike Conservatives, they're generally the most deranged and bloodthirsty groups you'll come across, and they've the guns to indulge their weird and sick fantasies on anyone who opposes them. A plague on them, I say! Such animals!

And they don't even have an ounce of self-awareness in their baying for blood and witch hunting of the opposition!

Liberal shitholes and conservative shitholes are shitholes all the same and twitter is the liberal social media equivalent of a backwater village in Louisiana that was cut off from civilization by mutant alligators since 1774.

... how many layers of irony are here, exactly?

I tried counting but every time i added everything up in windows calculator it displayed this image instead of any specific number.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Jimmy]

Like the old saying goes, opinions and twitters are like assholes: everyone's got one.

[LoSboccacc]

I'd normally sneer derisively at breitbart links, but this is actually happening. FemFreq is one of the names pulled for Twitter's community censorship board, to boot.

it's a _censorship_ board, who else would you want one? it has to be made out of special interest groups quite literally

[Aklyon]

I'd normally sneer derisively at breitbart links, but this is actually happening. FemFreq is one of the names pulled for Twitter's community censorship board, to boot.

As in they're being hidden, or actually being paid attention to?

[Sonlirain]

I'd normally sneer derisively at breitbart links, but this is actually happening. FemFreq is one of the names pulled for Twitter's community censorship board, to boot.

As in they're being hidden, or actually being paid attention to?

FemFreq has a say in who gets hidden.

[NJW2000]

As an organisation devoted to the eradication of abusive, sexist, dehumanising and objectifying treatment of women on the internet, that is entirely surprising choice. Who next? Pewdiepie? The Anti-defamation League?

[Sonlirain]

As an organisation devoted to the eradication of abusive, sexist, dehumanising and objectifying treatment of women on the internet, that is entirely surprising choice. Who next? Pewdiepie? The Anti-defamation League?

Bernard Madoff obviously.

[Aklyon]

I'd normally sneer derisively at breitbart links, but this is actually happening. FemFreq is one of the names pulled for Twitter's community censorship board, to boot.

As in they're being hidden, or actually being paid attention to?

FemFreq has a say in who gets hidden.

I'll add that to the list of bad things I've heard about twitter recently then.

[Jimmy]

I'm worried that my twitter feed advocating the drop-kicking of puppies will be unfairly censored. Any advice?

[Orange Wizard]

Kick more puppies until they capitulate.

[Sonlirain]

Are the puppies male?
If so you have nothing to worry about #killallmalepuppies

[SirQuiamus]

Or you could not use it because they're pro-censorship now.

It would help if you gave a link for stuff like that, fd. Or a tldr.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/16/exclusive-twitter-shadowbanning-is-real-say-inside-sources/

it says conservatives and right wingers are getting banned but in reality all you have to do is say anything even passingly conservative or vocally disagree with Feminists like Anita to earn a silent ban.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSQbLt9DS8

for fuck's sake, guys...

if their goal is to ban all "hate speech" and "passingly conservative" content, they're doing an extremely fucking lousy job

[Sonlirain]

Well they obviously can't ban everyone.
Still the more popular twitter righties get the b& treatment and if they started banning people reacting to people they follow suddenly disapearing things would go from obvious to painfully obvious and there's no better way to radicalize a group than keeping them shut in their tiny ecosystem.

It dosn't matter if it's a troglodyte from the fringe right who thinks gays need to be shot and wimminz need to be mak'n them sammiches or left weenie who will accept all 31 genders made up on tumblr and get triggered by lighthouses because they look too much like an erect penis and thus symbolize male dominance over women.

[SirQuiamus]

Still the more popular twitter righties get the b& treatment...

And yet the loudest and most popular rightie of them all is still happily tweeting away on their hate-speech intolerant progressive platform – I wonder why that is? Maybe because he's a huge click magnet and cash cow for the company, and banning him would cause a steep decline in outrage-driven traffic? So instead they take away his little blue checkmark as a "punishment" and voila – more outrage and more traffic for scot-free! It was a dazzlingly ingenious win-win strategy from Twatter: keep the SJWs happy by giving Milo a symbolic slap on the wrist, and make sure he and his fans will never stop tweeting about the terrible, terrible oppression they have to endure on a gratis social media service that no-one is forcing them to use.

Here: Ken of Popehat wrote a pretty good post about this deranged nontroversy when it was still fresh and wriggly.

Given that, Twitter's action is like throwing Milo into the brier patch and throwing hundred-dollar-bills in after him. The removal of the silly blue check is utterly insubstantial, but promotes Milo's conservatives-are-persecuted-and-liberals-are-evil narrative. It's free publicity. To his audience suggesting that he harasses ideological opponents is a promotion, not a rebuke. It's like banning a hot dog stand from one side of the park on the explicit grounds that the hot dogs are too delicious. He should be sending them some sort of fruit basket. It is, in short, more like fumbling decentralized decision-making and less like a centralized agenda.