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Whitestrider
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 Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 3:24 pm
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Ha...never disclose you real (or imaginary) age on social networks!
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Covnam
Joined: 31 May 2005
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 5:17 pm
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Weird. You'd think verified business accounts would be exempt from things like this since they're not personal accounts
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Whitestrider
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 5:28 pm
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| Covnam wrote: | | Weird. You'd think verified business accounts would be exempt from things like this since they're not personal accounts |
Well, after all business accounts don't usually need to input the date of birth, because they are the account of a product or a company, or belong to people well above the minimum age required for Twitter! In the end you are never sure how things are implemented in an online service.
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hikura
Joined: 21 Nov 2004
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 7:53 pm
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Twitter: Hey this fictional character is under 13. So we need to lock it.
The majority of us: hey Twitter we are calling your bs.
Twitter: oh yeah you're right.
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FilthyCasual
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 8:13 pm
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Owned.
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gilnokoibito
Joined: 17 Aug 2010
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 11:09 pm
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The same thing happened to the official IDOLISH7 Twitter quite a bit ago lol.
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Vanadise
Joined: 06 Apr 2015
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 11:30 pm
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As a reminder, Twitter could easily block all Nazis from using their service -- the maintain a list of Nazi accounts because they're legally required to filter them in Germany -- but they're too busy blocking accounts for fictional characters that set their birthdates wrong.
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MagicPolly
Joined: 26 Nov 2020
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 11:34 pm
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Hope ANN is able to get their main account back at some point, Twitter's age restrictions are ridiculous. "Oh, turns out you weren't 13 when you made your account you're now suspended for lying". Like come on, what is that really supposed to do?
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zrdb
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 12:28 am
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Really now? What a bunch of [expletive] bullshit-this and amazon and ebay blocking sales of certain items they consider "pornographic"-JEEZ! :roll: 8O
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Suxinn
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 3:56 am
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| Vanadise wrote: | As a reminder, Twitter could easily block all Nazis from using their service -- the maintain a list of Nazi accounts because they're legally required to filter them in Germany -- but they're too busy blocking accounts for fictional characters that set their birthdates wrong. |
Wow, 100% legit thanks for this. I didn't even know this was a thing.
| MagicPolly wrote: | | Hope ANN is able to get their main account back at some point, Twitter's age restrictions are ridiculous. "Oh, turns out you weren't 13 when you made your account you're now suspended for lying". Like come on, what is that really supposed to do? |
It seems pretty clear that Twitter isn't actually doing this for the sake of their users or whatever, but to keep their asses from being sued because of new legal requirements. So instead of trying to think up an actual user-friendly solution, they just decided to ban anyone who could potentially be a problem, probably because it's easier and cheaper. That's just capitalism, I guess.
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Whitestrider
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 6:52 am
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| Vanadise wrote: | As a reminder, Twitter could easily block all Nazis from using their service -- the maintain a list of Nazi accounts because they're legally required to filter them in Germany -- but they're too busy blocking accounts for fictional characters that set their birthdates wrong. |
They could block and ban all the doxxers too, but "strangely" they don't do it very often...
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animefan57892
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 8:19 am
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| Whitestrider wrote: |
| Vanadise wrote: | As a reminder, Twitter could easily block all Nazis from using their service -- the maintain a list of Nazi accounts because they're legally required to filter them in Germany -- but they're too busy blocking accounts for fictional characters that set their birthdates wrong. |
They could block and ban all the doxxers too, but "strangely" they don't do it very often... |
CNN dox an old lady showing her house and didn't blur the address, Twitter don't suspend CNN.
Social media (SNS) is just big tech oligarchs' playground.
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
Joined: 02 May 2011
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 11:39 am
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| MagicPolly wrote: | | Hope ANN is able to get their main account back at some point, Twitter's age restrictions are ridiculous. "Oh, turns out you weren't 13 when you made your account you're now suspended for lying". Like come on, what is that really supposed to do? |
Happy to say that it's back now!
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Haterater
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 10:39 am
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This situation is stupid, they know better. They overall could moderate things better but choose not to.
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