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As i suppose making fun of

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 10:52:09 +0000

As i suppose making fun of alt-righttards is as well.
Kumbaya Armageddon finally approaching.

Oh, judging from how

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 10:33:59 +0000

In reply to But which words? Tiki Torches

Oh, judging from how idiotically I've seen their filter hide certain tweets as "offensive", I was just presuming Tiki Torches is a big no-no now.

But which words? Tiki Torches

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 10:30:00 +0000

In reply to Boo. Sounds like the TSA, no

But which words? Tiki Torches or pet 'tard? (I actually switched from 'retard' to "pet 'tard" both because the pun was (slightly) better & I prefer not to use 'retard' as a pejorative when can avoid it.)

Or there's a chance they were tracking the "Violence against Women" thread and just flagged a bunch of tweets they assumed were Republicans piling on...

Boo. Sounds like the TSA, no

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:58:07 +0000

In reply to Sorry I can't share in your

Boo. Sounds like the TSA, no tongue-in-cheek allowed.

I just got done reading the series on millennials and jobs @ Axios and somewhere in there they said these moderator type jobs pay around $28K a year, so there's that-if I were them I might just get lazy and go with banned keywords, too, I guess.

Sorry I can't share in your

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 07:26:31 +0000

In reply to So I spoke with the guy who

Sorry I can't share in your Twitter humor - I've been suspended either for joking about "Tiki Torches" - seriously, just saying "Too. Slow. Tiki Torches" - or making a pun about "hoisted by own pet 'tard " in a tweet in response to Republicans trying to repeal the Violence Against Women Act.
Nicely ironic. Way to go, Twitter - you're policing your users well.

So I spoke with the guy who

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 04:45:27 +0000

In reply to Congrats on not being sexist/racist. Now let Facebook fix that.

So I spoke with the guy who made the Biden meme that Trump tweeted on Thursday. I tried to explore how the lines have blurred between viral trolling and the business of politics and what power is when our politics are programmed by what’s viral on Twitter https://t.co/V0JNVzEmq5 pic.twitter.com/S0lJRCzZa6
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) April 6, 2019

I was a bit conflicted about writing about a pseudonymous meme guy but ultimately I think it's worth looking at how the lines have blurred between viral trolling and the business of politics. Also: telling to hear the process of how these memes are targeted toward boomers! pic.twitter.com/3bVR2hPbrI
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) April 6, 2019

"Last year he won a $10,000 meme contest hosted by the conspiracy site Infowars and now said that he gets more than dozen requests per day to make bespoke political memes." https://t.co/h5eeZ2imsT
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) April 6, 2019

Hoping that invoice gets thru

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 01:49:12 +0000

In reply to Congrats on not being sexist/racist. Now let Facebook fix that.

Hoping that invoice gets thru pic.twitter.com/8eKsg1SKlw
— Ray Pride (@RayPride) April 6, 2019

Though being pretty clueless

artappraiser — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:26:54 +0000

In reply to Congrats on not being sexist/racist. Now let Facebook fix that.

Though being pretty clueless about how it all works mathematically, once I got the principle of micro-targeting I instinctively got shock and awe about precisely what's being addressed in this article.

I could be wrong but I don't see any way to regulate fairly across the board. Sure you could pick out certain things, like housing and race. So what. There's many multitudes of other "discriminations" that could be executed. You can do the main ones, but the rest, it's like trying to regulate life itself.

Men aren't interested in seeing ads for Tampax. It's just that simple or complicated. Tampax used to have to spend to do a national ad on TV to which a huge percentage of the audience that is male would never be interested. They don't have to do that anymore.

Got me thinking though, how people eventually game any system once they get used to it. Because of the thing that on the internet nobody knows if you are a really a dog. I.E., people quickly got wise to the ability to sockpuppet on blogs. Sign up for another email, register another account, have two identities. I know, IP addresses are the main I.D, but still, if the idea is grassroots to get around the systems, it will get done. Isn't this what Bitcoin et. al. is, writ large?

Edit to add: everybody's doing it. Every Instagram account is an attempt to grow a tribe of followers with shared culture and tastes and then hopefully the account holder can market to them. Bubble-ization or not, your choice, same as society always was.