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Twitter user gets blocked for writing “die” in German (twitter.com/ziaweise)
21 points by Labo333 on Nov 15, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



The post claims it was an algorithm, but this could easily be a human mistake. Maybe someone reported the comment (either maliciously or ignorantly), then a moderator, unaware the user was writing in German, suspended the user.


Reminds me of the time locally when group of people tried to change a local river's name from "Fishkill" to "Fishsave." The name Fishkill is Dutch for creek/river of fish.



Some weeks ago we had big banners advertising 'Die great night show'. Probably wasn't as much fun as advertised




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