Oppressed by Deontological Twitter
I am temporarily banned by Twitter for “Violating our rules against hateful conduct.” because of the attached tweet. I don’t know if “all men must die” was interpreted as a threat rather than a simple statement of fact by the algorithm or if calling deontological reasoning confused or fanatical was considered hate speach.
Maybe I should have writtn “Valar Morgulis”. I do face a problem “By clicking Delete, you acknowledge that your Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.” I can not honestly acknowledge that — the literally meaning of “must” is “is inevitable” while the use of “must” to mean “is extremely desirable and I demand it” is an innovation. Should I lie to Twitter by clicking delete ?
As noted, I am not Kant and I am a consequentialist, so I clicked [delete]
Robert
I doubt they even knew what the word meant. Facebook does this to me all the time. I posted their comment here along with my original commment.
the internet is becoming more repressive by the day; they’re slowing closing the overton window such that eventually no light will be allowed through….i, for one, will not tolerate living in darkness when that happens…
After being repeatedly blocked by the FB police, I started my own blog, upfromfacebook.blogspot.com. FB won’t allow me to post the URL, but will ignore it if I put the dot in square brackets.
One trick I use is to put things in quotes, since their community standards allow things when quoting others that would be a violation if stated by the user.
Once I was blocked for a week for observing that Americans are innumerate. It turns out that, according to FB community standards, “Americans” are a protected group and “innumerate” is hate speech. Who knew?
I suspect that my posts were being reported by a FB “friend.” I unfriended a couple of suspects and haven’t been blocked since.
Joel:
Not the smartest people. I suspect facebook does not hire the brightest amongst us and they are paid for activity.
@run,
I recall from a New Yorker article that the typical FB moderator spends an average of four seconds on each decision.
Valar dohaeris
well, i got banned from a Wall Stret Journal sponsored newsletter comments section.
because they “could not verify” something I said. they refusd to tell me what it was they could not verify, but i thought it was strange since the comment was itself a verification of something else i had said that another commenter challenged me to prove. given that most of the comments were low nonsense… something i did not say… i suspected they could not verify exactly because they did not want to verify it in front of people, as it would have damanged their billion dollar campaign to destroy Social Security. but I am biased that way.
this was not a case of being banished by an algorithm. but the way people are any more, it is doubtful many of them could pass the Turing test.