Twitter won't use anti-nazi algorhithm because it might flag GOP

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

OK, let's get off it a little.

The problem with the algorithm Twitter refuses to use is that it's extremely aggressive. It would be similar to the algorithms that Twitter uses to police Jihadists or child pornography, which are so aggressive that you get misfires that end up targeting some Arabic news stations. If they did this, the concern is that the algorithm will flag a Republican (concerns seem to revolve around Steve King and Trump) and delete their posts, which is going to cause a massive shitstorm.

Wait, so you actually read the article and didn't boil the argument down to "blame the rich people" vs "I'm placing the burden of proof on you?"

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

That's odd, considering that there's a clear distinction between thinking one race should be treated as better or worse than anyone else and thinking that everyone should be treated equally. The former is a sign of white supremacy... or the regressive left, of course. I can't recall any GOP member at the national level in modern times asking for discrimination in favor of whites.

It sounds like they need better algorithms. Maybe after some of those former members of Buzzfeed learn to code, they can help out there,

Or perhaps national GOP members are like, retweeting a lot of the same videos and images as white nationalists, using a lot of the same hashtags as white nationalists, and share a lot of popular phrasing and language choices with white nationalists.

That does not really damn the right.

The same way it should not damn the Left if a black masculinist black supremacy cult was retweeting and liking a lot of the same stuff they did.

I am merely offering an explanation for the phenomenon.

Fuzzy, there are major things that distinguish the vast majority of the GOP from Nazis. Belief in white supremacy would be a big one. A desire for an ethnostate would be another. The 14(?) words, Heil Hitlers, and whatever... Why wouldn't a filter choose those?

Your explanation of why they couldn't be distinguished has a problem in that it doesn't explain why they couldn't be distinguished. Saying that there are commonalities doesn't explain why things that were not in common weren't used, when those are the point of distinguishing. Saying I couldn't distinguish men from women because it turns out they often both wear pants would make me a lousy doctor.

Unless Twitter is so far left that they think "Protect gun rights" or "Oppose race-based college admissions" are positions exclusive to Nazis.

Okay, I'll concede that point. =/ There are lots of dogwhistles exclusive to Nazi ideology that conservative dialogue does not share and would be a good way to separate things. Nazis do tend to change their codewords to adapt, but that is a separate issue to address in the fullness of time.