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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.
Click report to police.
Bitch!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
SJWs are ruining the Internet. Can we either kick them off or just start a new one?
oh this wont be abused at all
Not so good for men.
OpenSource release story removed due to developers opposition to Social Justice.
A story on the Phoronix linux news site about a release of an Open Source videogame was manually removed after a few days.
The reason cited was the developer's views on social issues such as gender equality (1).
The release story was titled "Xonotic-Forked ChaosEsqueAnthology Sees New Release - Phoronix" and can be accessed via the google cache(2).
Are the social or political views of an author of free software relevant to that software's inherent quality?
Should the beliefs of an opensource developer weigh when when evaluating whether a piece of opensource software is worthy of any publicity or public notice?
Should men with unpopular or "forbidden" views be excised from the opensource movement and "not allowed" to contribute, in a manner similar to that which is done in employment?
Has the free/opensource software movement changed in these respects since its founding? If so is this a positive change?
Should there be gatekeepers to opensource that decide who may and who may not contribute. Should abusive developers be "blackballed" to maintain proper social order and controls?
Citations:
(1) http://www.phoronix.com/forums...
"Fortunately, the article has been removed now."
"Thanks everybody for speaking up."
(2) https://webcache.googleusercon...
Removed story URL:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
The people who should be using this function have never learned about glass houses and throwing stones. Soon reporting posts to the police will be a form of harassment.
you are all idiots.
Then the police will be overwhelmed with enforcement, and unable to foil my plot to rob all the world's banks.
This is ridiculous, they'll get flooded with requests, unable to handle them all. Every idiot that's willing to call 911 because the PlayStation Network is down is going to have a field day with this. Is there any accountability for those who use the tool?
Twinstiq, game news
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.
An internet bully's power is the attention he is given. Ignore her and he'll go away unsatisfied. I want to believe this can be a force for good; that only real, credible threats that deserve the attention of the police will be reported. But I know that won't be the case. Either this will generate so many reports that it will be utterly ignored or, much worse, there will be political pressure to respond inappropriately to tweets that should be ignored.
Anyone seriously intent on harassing someone using Twitter will spend the tens of dollars for an account or, more likely, make a zero day egg account from a throw-away email address. It costs surprisingly little to buy a fake Twitter account. In fact I would wager this whole exercise is a cynical attempt to get Twitter into the news again. So bravo, Slashdot. As for reporting functionality there just isn't the manpower, on twitter or on government payrolls, to filter from the mass of hurt feelings the few actually actionable reports. The most this can accomplish is a slight chance to catch the very stupidest/youngest harassers and/or build a case against them after they're caught by other means.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
This seems rather hopeless. Does it go to the police with jurisdiction closest to the IP address the offending tweet came from? Or to the police closest to where the alleged victim resides? What if the intended police department has no cyber-crimes unit?
And what do you do to prevent people from trolling this system? It seems that someone could really waste a lot of time and resources at large police departments by flagging every tweet with their names or abbreviations in it.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Don't see this going horribly wrong at all.
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.
change a tweet into an oink?
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Oh boy, this totally won't be abused to high hell and back.
This tool will get abused so hard it will become worthless.
Great one Twitter.
I bet it isn't even CAPTCHA'd.
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.
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Americans have learned to emulate Nazi Germany. Everyone wants to be a member of the Stasi.