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Twitter Rolls Out New Anti-Abuse Tools
An anonymous reader writes: After facing criticism that it gives trolls and hatemongers a platform to intimidate people, Twitter has now rolled out a new set of tools and policies to handle abusive tweets. Previously, they only prohibited threats of violence that were "direct" and "specific," but now that's been expanded to all threats of violence or tweets promoting violence. They said, "Our previous policy was unduly narrow and limited our ability to act on certain kinds of threatening behavior." Twitter has also added non-permanent bans, as well as this: "[W]e have begun to test a product feature to help us identify suspected abusive Tweets and limit their reach. This feature takes into account a wide range of signals and context that frequently correlates with abuse including the age of the account itself, and the similarity of a Tweet to other content that our safety team has in the past independently determined to be abusive." Twitter's general counsel recently said, "Freedom of expression means little as our underlying philosophy if we continue to allow voices to be silenced because they are afraid to speak up. We need to do a better job combating abuse without chilling or silencing speech."
No one who uses the term "SJW" as an insult is qualified to judge others. Once you out yourself as one of the reactionary fools, no one but the other worse-than-useless dead-enders will to take anything you say seriously.
The SJWs are more often than not, the real doxers, shamers, and ragers, who want to shut down discourse and cry victim when they're criticized. It's just that we're supposed to see their behavior as 'empowerment' and critics' as bigotry. If society could put that political correctness aside, then it could actually look at the merits of each side's argument (if any exist) and come to rational conclusions. This is not what the current pop culture politic wants. It's not what drives people to the ballot box to vote for certain politicians.
Making threats is often done when one's back is against the wall. Fifth columns that depict part of a community as oppressed by default when, in most cases, it's not, then demanding the rest must make 'reparations' by relinquishing power, can be just such a situation. The best way to fix this is to wipe out the 'affirmative action' mentality and reenforce policies promoting equal opportunity in it's true form: a meritocracy.
Right, just like generalizing and stereotyping games and gamers as a "Choose your own patriarchal adventure" doesn't deserve all the criticism and derision it got.. Oh wait, yes it did.
I guess I could generalize all women gamers with something like: "Women gamers must be a horde of ugly, fat, losers who can't get a boyfriend in real life, so they play online games to harass guys looking to unwind after work" because of statements made by a few women like anita and zoe quinn, but that would stoop to your level of fallacious argument and be just as untrue.