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![]() AXAPE3hyPv- Tim Pool (Timcast) January 28, 2019 Twitter user Paul Mackenzie, paul94mck, appears to have tweeted #Learntocode 3 times and 'learn to code' once.One tweet was criticism of a journalist where he added the hashtagThe tweet was removed and he said he received a 12 hour suspension for it. That day, Twitter user Tim Pool tweeted a screenshot of a suspension alert sent to Twitter user for "abusive behavior," citing a tweet with the hashtag "#LearnToCode" (shown below). Twitter is responding to a targeted harassment campaign against specific individuals - a policy that's long been against the Twitter Rules" "It's more nuanced than what you reported. In a follow-up tweet, Levine quoted a Twitter spokesperson who clarified what would constitute the Terms of Service violation: ![]() On January 28th, 2019, The Wrap editor John Levine tweeted that "a person in the know" told him that directing tweets with "learn to code" to "any recently laid off journalist" would be considered a violation of the site's Terms of Service (shown below). Meanwhile, YouTuber Styxhexenhammer666 uploaded a video about the layoffs titled "Learn to Code! Kirsten Powers Ragequits Twitter, Buzzfeed Downsizes, Huffpost Opinion Closes" (shown below). The following day, another thread about the "learn to code" comments was submitted to /pol/, which included a screenshot of tweet. Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 2,100 likes and 850 retweets.ītw, if any other journos targeted by layoffs are getting masses of “learn to code” harassment, it was coordinated on 4chan (of course) /DtpinjWhID- Talia Lavin January 25, 2019 ![]() That evening, freelance writer Talia Lavin tweeted screenshots of various 4chan posts celebrating the journalist layoffs, along with messages saying "learn to code" (shown below). That day, Redditor Theyre GoodDogsBrent submitted a post asking "What's the deal with Twitter users responding to layoffs of journalists with 'Learn to Code'?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop, to which Redditor downvotethrowaway responded with a link to the tweet, along with a message that the people posting the phrase "believe those news organizations have been shitting on blue-collar workers for years." Also on January 24th, a post titled "President Trump General – Learn to Code Edition" was submitted to 4chan's /pol/ board, where commenters used the phrase "learn to code" to mock the laid-off journalists. lYWDIIcCKm- Alex VanNess January 27, 2019 Go mine some coal and then go fuck yourselves. Hey laid off journalists who are upset that people are telling you to "learn how to code": Some have argued that the phrase "learn to code" was adopted as a response to articles written about coal miners learning software development as an alternative career (shown below). The tweet was posted shortly after the announcements that BuzzFeed laid of 15% of its staff and The Huffington Post had eliminated its Opinion and Healthcare editorial sections. Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 1,300 likes and 260 retweets. On January 24th, 2019, Jalopnik editor-in-chief Patrick George tweeted he believed in a "special, dedicated section of Hell" for people with anime profile pictures who tweet "learn to code" to journalists who had been laid off (shown below). On November 18th, 2015, Wired published, "Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code?" The article, which took issue with Bloomberg's assertion, focused on several coal miners who were, in fact, learning to code. Over the next year, other media outlets published pieces on coal miners learning to code. Mark Zuckerberg says you teach them to code and everything will be great." Several months later, in April 2014, in response to a comment by Mark Zuckerberg about shifts in energy use that has led to many coal mines being closed and coal miners behind laid off, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Future of Energy Summit said, "You’re not going to teach a coal miner to code. On February 10th, 2014, BuzzFeed News published a quiz titled "Should You Learn to Code?," which provided links to articles recommending coding for people with various interests or professions. ![]()
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