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Re:Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media by jzwinck on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:16AM (#10696789)
If it's easy to create new accounts, then closing old ones is a losing battle for law enforcement. If it's hard to create new accounts, Twitter's business might just fall apart.
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Re:Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media by JCordeiro on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:40AM (#10696973)
I wonder if an effective method would be to apply some sort of "shadowban" on the Twitter accounts instead of closing them.
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Re:Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media by Shivetya on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:19AM (#10697280)
wouldn't it be pretty obvious to them when they cannot see the shadow banned account from other accounts? I know people who do similar on reddit, keep a second/third/etc account around to periodically check their main if they should notice no replies or such.

How restricted can new accounts be made so that they have to pass a review without impacting new accounts to the point no one wants to use the service?

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