Blogger Incites Outcry Over Twitter Harassment

CNet is reporting that one blogger has started an outcry about harassment as it applies to Twitter. While their written stance appears to support the safeguarding of abuse, Twitter appears to be waffling on the issue when it comes to the hard line of enforcement. "The final response to Waldman's complaint from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone asserted that "Twitter is a communication utility, not a mediator of content," and that "Twitter recognizes that it is not skilled at judging content disputes between individuals. Determining the line between update and insult is not something that Twitter, nor a crowd, would do well. Stone added that Twitter's team would continue talking about which situations were appropriate for account banning."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing massive here.

[twitter]

I doubt more than one person wrote this offtopic, flamebait thread. I know because I have been playing the dreadfully easy, multiple account game. It would not surprise me to learn that you work for M$ or some kind of PR firm under their hire but it does not matter. No one here cares or listens, except to reflect, "Yeah, that's what M$ does to people who bad mouth them."

I'm happy to make you and your employer angry. I do it by showing up M$ BS and running around your censorship and insults. Sooner or later your employer will realize you are a waste of money.

The bottom line is that you are worse than ineffective, you are counter productive. You are on the losing side the free software battle and making things worse for yourself. Insult and disruption are empty. At the end of the day, you have nothing - not even a censored or upset victim. Worse, your work won't make the product your employer needs to survive. It just creates animosity towards them. The more you spam, the more people hate you.

I'll be here when you are gone. I'll be talking about all of the same things people like to talk about now - but the discussion will be much nicer without M$ shitting on those things and the conversation.