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Twitter Adds Tool To Report Tweets To the Police

Posted by timothy on from the but-first-this-detour-to-fort-meade dept.

itwbennett writes Twitter is ramping up its efforts to combat harassment with a tool to help users report abusive content to law enforcement. The reports would include the flagged tweet and its URL, the time at which it was sent, the user name and account URL of the person who posted it, as well as a link to Twitter's guidelines on how authorities can request non-public user account information from Twitter. It is left up to the user to forward the report to law enforcement and left up to law enforcement to request the user information from Twitter.

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  1. Wtf? Where?! by BrookHarty · · Score: 5, Informative

    From article.

    > Women have been ruthlessly targeted on Twitter and on other sites like Reddit and 4chan, due to sexism in the video game industry, sometimes referred to as “Gamergate.”

    This makes no freaking sense, How the the hell is the video game industry, reddit and gamergate followers ruthless attacking women on twitter?

    Other than the 3 women who are anti-gamergate, where are the actual victims? Where are this masses of criminals doing this? I keep reading about it, all these evil people doing it, but nobody is ever arrested... Smells like propeganda for some special interests, like some group looking for funding for their businesses... Look war on women going on over here! But please dont investigate, just take our word.

    So, this Zack Miners who wrote the story for IDG, the same IDG that pushes the war on women narative on all its publications without backing up it up with any facts. IDG Tech news = gossip, rumors and attack on evil gamers attacking women. Sheesh.

  2. They Don't Have Evidence by Kunedog · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's an interesting vid:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... That is direct video evidence of an anti-GG Sarkeesian supporter threatening physical violence against a pro-GG guy. Everyone knows that if the other side had evidence one tenth as damning, we would never hear the end of it, ever, across dozens (probably hundreds) of sites.

    So it's the same old song for Slashdot's abysmal Gamergate coverage:

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

    Try this: link to the /. article that covers the Gamergate scandal without screaming about misogyny and harassment. You can't. And that's because overall, the Slashdot readership doesn't buy the "misogyny and harassment" narrative for one second. The editors quickly discovered that the discussion thread for any article that straightforwardly mentions Gamergate--even if it's one-sided [slashdot.org]--couldn't be trusted to go the way the editors demand.

    For a while, they found limited success by posting articles with the template "misogyny, harassment, threats, misogyny, harassment, threats . . . oh btw Gamergate" (i.e. a br But even that's not working anymore, and the editors' credibility on this issue is shot. Permanently.

    Slashdot wants desperately to cover Gamergate, but doesn't want to be honest and up front that it's doing so, and especially that it's taking the pro-corruption side. In the early weeks, they even tried to participate in the blackout, which led to almost every article about gaming at all becoming a Gamergate thread. The editors/ownership knew damn well what they were doing, and it's silly to blame anyone else for the consequences of refusing to cover Gamergate, except with propaganda.

    This is one of those articles that follows that tired template. Make no mistake, it's about Gamergate and the editors damn well know it; they're just too scared to say so.