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alt-left Twitter purges many alt-right accounts
From: Razer <rayzer at riseup.net>
On 11/20/2016 04:02 AM, Ben Tasker wrote:
>>But, if every one of Razer's followers (as well as randoms who stumble over the tweet) retweet it (or generate completely new tweets), >>they'll then get new copies/notifications.      >Yup. That how the rat-packing part of twitter 'bullying' happens. I've had that occur on a small scale but I can only imagine a journo or other >public figure having a real problem with it. You have to visit the account's page to block (using tweetdeck makes it easier). It can be very >time consuming. My tactic has always been to block the first person who @'s or RT'd me but if you're being bullied and getting hundreds of >them it cold take a while to even figure out who was first.
Conceptually, this is like VOLUNTARILY being in a huge room with thousands of people (real-world example: Â A political convention) with thousands of small, simultaneous, and relatively quiet conversations, spread out over the room. Â You're there, too. Â It's possible that hundreds of people might decide to surround you, and begin to criticize. Â Â
Is there something wrong with that? Â The target of their ire won't like it, of course, but that's part of the deal you accepted when you walked in the door. Â This is not likely to occur in the case of a person who doesn't have controversial, even hated, ideas.
All in all, I don't think there is a problem here that technology isn't in the position to solve.           Jim Bell
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