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Cloudflare set up a limit to what they allow or not so now they will have to fight where that limit is. It can become death by a thousand papercuts.

Twitter also enforces its policies very selectively, and seems to be getting away with it so far, but they are walking a tightrope. E.g. now violating the ToS is OK if it's "newsworthy" etc. Or how "Kill all X" will get you banned for some values of X but not others.

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Twitter is a joke.

I keep reporting accounts that call black people "nic gurr" to avoid being caught dropping actual N bombs and they are almost never banned.

I guess Daily Active User KPI is more important!

Edit - For anyone wondering about Trump's place on Twitter, he's not going anywhere. Twitter is extremely proud of his account and is using him in advertising in Japan:

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ads-featuring-donald-...

> I keep reporting accounts that call black people "nic gurr" to avoid being caught dropping actual N bombs and they are almost never banned.

This is a war you'll never win, though. People will keep inventing new combinations of characters as you ban the previously used ones.

That seems naive. It's impractical to technologically predict and exclude all undesirable letter combinations, but once humans get involved it's not hard to tell when someone is trying to slip the N-word. That's why there's a report button.

> it's not hard to tell when someone is trying to slip the N-word

Coded language like "states rights"[1][2] sill slips by a lot of people today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#United_St...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ

Political opinions, however reprehensible, are a different thing than slurs.

I suggest listening to the video [previous 2]. That political opinion is explicitly designed as a racial slur.

I think Twitter has not claimed they are content agnostic. That's the difference.

There used to be a time when twitter tried to brand itself as "the free speech wing of the free speech party"[1]. Obviously they have changed their stance by quite a bit.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/twitter-f...

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