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55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats
AlistairCharlton writes "A petition campaigning for Twitter to improve its measures against online abuse has received more than 55,000 signatures in two days. The petition was set up in support of feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, who faced a torrent of abusive tweets, including threats to rape and kill her, after successfully campaigning for a woman's picture to appear on a banknote; Jane Austen will appear on £10 notes from 2017."
Marie Curie wasn't English, so there's that. I would have chosen Ada Lovelace instead, who I feel is a sadly underappreciated figure.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
It could be the best social commentary ever written, but the writing is still awful.
Would you care to expand on that? Ifound the writing to be very pleasent, especially pleasingly terse without being stucatto. Can you give some examples, quotes, etc of things you don't like?
Austen is certainly not one to go into very long descriptive passages.
I am not sure why the writing styles of so many writers that English Lit majors adore are so terrible to read.
No idea. I didn't study English Lit beyond GCSE level and to be honest what we did in my school barely qualifies as "studying". But that's a very long rant for another day :)
Vogon poetry.
That would be: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
I tried to read it. I struggled to somewhere past the black page and then gave up. It's kind of entertaining in that it this sort of bonkers post modern (about 200 years early) take on the modern novel (written about 50 years after the modern novel format was first invented) and is basically wall to wall memes and pop culture circa 1750.
Basically the result is Vogon Poetry.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
A couple of years ago, a user by the name of @goferet was sending regular rape and death threats to women. I saved links to 8 of the rape threats and 2 of the death threats, and contacted Twitter support.
They responded that his actions did not violate their terms of service. I pointed them directly to the terms of service page, and the specific mention of threats.
They didn't see a problem with what he was saying. Specifically things like he was planning to climb in their windows at night and rape them, some of them past rape victims who were campaigning for better investigations and fairer treatment of victims.
I thought maybe it was just the one idiot in support I was getting, but even the @support account didn't think anything of it.
What eventually did stop him making the threats was that I contacted people that he was associated with on Twitter and suggested they read his feed directly, so they could see what he was doing in his mentions, outside of the regular feed they saw. There was some disgust, and one person who knew him got him to finally shut his mouth.
Obviously there was an element that could have been "Leave it to the police", especially when some of the people he was attacking lived in the same city. But since Twitter was ignoring their *own* policies to let him threaten other users it was pretty vile on their parts.