Bas Houtman

Twitter censors a photo of children waiting for school in Afghanistan: A Twitter user shared a photo taken of small children in Afghanistan waiting outside a school that would not open, wearing their backpacks. The text of the tweet read: "A photo of a school in Afghanistan closed due to security issues. The students showed up bright and early anyway. Teachers said goodbye to their female students who won’t be allowed to go to school anymore. A numbing helpless feeling....." Twitter placed a sensitive content filter over the photo. Such filters do not allow users on the mobile app who have the sensitive filter enabled on their profile to view the filtered content at all. On the web version of Twitter, the users must click through the sensitive content interstitial in order to view the filtered content. Not only do such filters give the impression of inappropriate content, similar filters have been shown to reduce user interaction with content.

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