Twitter Adds Tool To Report Tweets To the Police

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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Twitter Anti-Cyberbully CYA Technique #43

[EMG at MU]

This is just Twitter covering their ass by providing a way for a user to furnish a "report" to the police that isn't some shitty picture they took on their phone.

But what can police do? Say you live in Bumfuck Nowhere, USA and you bring this report to your local Sheriff saying InternetUser1234 in SomewhereFarAway, USA is accosting me online. Then what? They get out the bloodhounds to "trace the IP"?

Most PDs don't have units or personnel equipped or trained to utilize these reports.

Why doesn't twitter just provide a button that a user can push when they feel relentlessly accosted by internet trolls. It would delete the user's account.

Re:Twitter Anti-Cyberbully CYA Technique #43

[Anonymous Coward]

The recent publishing of 4chan IRC chat logs show the trolls discussing the use of these disposable sock puppet accounts extensively.It's how they made GamerGate seem like a huge deal when it actually a very small group.

The most recent story of 4chan IRC logs I found was almost half a year ago. Meanwhile, GamerGate is still around to this day, long after the mainstream media (who is more responsible for making GamerGate a big deal, giving the trolls the attention they wanted) had their fun with it.

Some people argue that Sarkeesian is a troll

Many more people argue that GamerGate is just a movement manufactured by a small number of trolls, such as what you just did. Alas, when one tries to defend against that, "listen and believe" quickly becomes "attack and destroy" and "hear and ignore" if a woman, a woman who has been writing about gaming long before Anita came along mind you, didn't agree with the narrative pushed by Anita and the anti-GGers

If you listen to hear videos she has carefully constructed, detailed arguments.

And if you listened to others, they have constructed detailed rebuttals and criticisms.

You might not like them, but simply disagreeing does not make someone a troll.

Indeed, people should listen to GamerGate instead of casting them all as harassers and trolls.