Re:Twitter discloses 10k accounts suspended for fomenting po...
by dymk on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:45AM
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A single individual or organized group possessing thousands of accounts used to astroturf a platform is abusive of the platform, regardless of what the message is - banning that sort of activity doesn't seem dystopian.
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Re:Twitter discloses 10k accounts suspended for fomenting po...
by voxic11 on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:06PM
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That sounds different and a lot more specific than simply "inciting unrest". Facebook calls it "coordinated inauthentic behavior" which while still very broad at least seems to be more specifically directed at the behavior you describe.
Re:Twitter discloses 10k accounts suspended for fomenting po...
by GrassFedAltCoin on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:55AM
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I don't disagree at all — but in your hypothetical situation, they're clearly not being banned for causing "unrest." They're being banned for creating fake accounts to spam the platform en masse, "regardless of what the message is" as you say.