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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.
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.
Yes, it's just a list of flagged tweets, hopefully this will satiate idiots that report personal insults because there's no way law enforcement has time for this bullshit.
Twinstiq, game news
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.
mikeeusa is not anti-SJW, he is anti-women to the same extent that SJWs are anti-white and anti-men.
That said, there is a question of whether his personal views should have been an issue in discussing the release of a game. Code is neutral.
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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So are a lot of things the police are too busy to even show up for. Unless there is a dead body, or some politically correct class is involved, don't even bother calling, as nothing will ever happen.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Sure. About as much accountability as there is for the people who create applications that allow morons to send unmoderated messages that others wind up finding objectionable, insulting, harrassing, etc. (IANAL but, IMHO, it doesn't much matter that posts can be deleted. Once sent the damage to the target has been done.) At least Twitter posts are identified and can be traced to an individual. Unlike Yik Yak where one can be harrassed anonymously by its users and there's no recourse for those who've been targeted. Wait until its creators wind up on the receiving end of a class-action lawsuit for that and its investors pull out after wondering why they ever gave money to people who don't appear to have given any thought to how their nifty software might be (mis)used. Due diligence? They've heard of it. Maybe. But my money's on ``no''.
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Law enforcement already trawl through tweets so this just narrows the funnel for them.
They're ruining the world. Fuck them all. The world should be offensive and rude and nasty.
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.
Americans have learned to emulate Nazi Germany. Everyone wants to be a member of the Stasi.
The person who owns the site has full editorial control. Start your own site to talk about Mikee if it's such a big deal.
I didn't know what SJW meant so I found this urbandictionary definition to be helpful:
SJW
Social Justice Warrior. A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation. A social justice warrior, or SJW, does not necessarily strongly believe all that they say, or even care about the groups they are fighting on behalf of. They typically repeat points from whoever is the most popular blogger or commenter of the moment, hoping that they will "get SJ points" and become popular in return. They are very sure to adopt stances that are "correct" in their social circle.
The SJW's favorite activity of all is to dogpile. Their favorite websites to frequent are Livejournal and Tumblr. They do not have relevant favorite real-world places, because SJWs are primarily civil rights activists only online.
#1:
A social justice warrior reads an essay about a form of internal misogyny where women and girls insult stereotypical feminine activities and characteristics in order to boost themselves over other women.
The SJW absorbs this and later complains in response to a Huffington Post article about a 10-year-old feminist's letter, because the 10-year-old called the color pink "prissy".
#2:
Commnter: "I don't like getting manicures. It's too prissy."
SJW: "Oh my god, how fucking dare you use that word, you disgusting sexist piece of shit!"
You act like it's impossible to hate your own ethnicity. Racist is racist, regardless of punching up, down, left, right, or yourself in the crotch.
Anyway, contrary to the Republic of Mah Feelz, butthurt isn't legal grounds (for any value of 'Not Sweden'), so unless it's an actual death threat, this is pointless pandering.
Well, no, Airstrip One has fun views of terrorism, so people tweeting about a party being a blast might get swept up too.
The educational establishment had a similar debate a few years back over a website called Sparklebox - a free resource site for primary school teachers. Posters, worksheets, that sort of thing. Very popular - teachers love resources as they save a lot of time. Until it emerged that the site's founder had been convicted for possession of child abuse imagery. There was a strong backlash - many teachers refused to use the site after that, posters were taken down from walls, and some local authorities even blocked the site on their webfilters. There was never any reason to believe the site posed or could possibly pose even the slightest danger to children - it wasn't for children to view, it was only for teachers - but this didn't do much to lessen the backlash: The site was owned by a dirty pedo, therefore all resources from the site were considered tainted and unfit for viewing by delicate children.
Detail: https://www.tes.co.uk/article....
The interesting thing about feminists: They support every disadvantage. "Hey, you can't say 'i heard that ...', because deaf people cannot her. Ableism!". But as soon as they need to cope with critizism, they use disadvantages as insult "He's got a small dick". Not only it's an insult, assuming stuff they know its propably untrue, but its even something which would be some of their many *isms.
what does it matter?
1) pedophile is no crime, its a sexual preference and maybe an mental illness
2) If somebody acts illegal, it's the job of the police to act on it. If it's illegal, they will do something, if he did nothing wrong, there is nothing to do. So you do not need to care about supporting or not, it's just not your thing to judge.
pro murdering files. Ever ran fsck.reiserfs?
OTOH, swating means, you tell the police something untrue. This function means, you tell the police where to look, IF it is a problem.