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Wow. As of today, Twitter won't let you do a photo search on the word "butt," but it will let you do one on "white pride." That's messed up.
(Note: A search on "butt" will produce some results, but only from people whose usernames include the word, not from tweets containing it.)
Here's another thing about Twitter's disabling of "offensive" search terms: Many reclaimed queer-community terms are disallowed.
Twitter still lets you do a photo search for "lesbian," for instance, but blocks results if you try to do one for "dyke."
There's a lot of randomness in the censorship as well: "butt" is forbidden, but "butts" is fine.
Thanks, by the way, to all of you who are now sending me pictures of butts. I wouldn't have a source for butts on the internet without you.
The gaps in the filter ("butts," "titties," "tallywhacker") will be plugged soon enough, of course. They're not what's troubling.
The whole thing seems pretty stupid and pointless, though. And obnoxious. Hope they abandon it.
"Sorry. We won't let you see any Dykes to Watch Out For comics. Perhaps you would enjoy some swastikas instead?"
I don't think they're filtering content yet. But interestingly, while "breast" is still allowed, "penis" is not.
Followup thread here:
