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Twitter Launches Trust and Safety Council To Help Put End To Trolling (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter has announced a new trust and safety council to stamp out bullying and trolling on the microblogging site. The Twitter Trust & Safety Council will initially be formed of around 40 bodies, including the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, ICT Watch, NetSafe, and Samaritans. These organisations, along with safety experts, academics and security researchers, will work to ensure a safe and secure platform for users to express themselves freely and safely. The Council's main focus will be to protect minors, encourage 'greater compassion and empathy on the internet,' and promote efforts in media literacy and digital citizenship. Community groups will also participate to help prevent online 'abuse, harassment, and bullying,' as well as mental health problems and suicide.
Twitter Launches Church Of We Don't Like Your Opinion So We're Going To Brand You A Troll Council to Help Put End To Hurt Feelings
So you are free express yourself, as long as you express yourself in a way approved by these organizations?
What fucking hypocritical bullshit.
Who gets to define "Trolling" and "Bullying". My guess, suddenly all sorts of speech will be suddenly labels "Micro-aggression" and be banned.
"I'm voting for _________" -- not politically correct candidate = BANHAMMER!!!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
safe and secure platform for users to express themselves freely and safely
As long as your free expression doesn't piss off any of the 40 busybody groups, of course.
God, I'm so stupid. Here I've been hanging out on the internet for decades now, and I never once realized in all that time that all we had to do to make everyone nice to each other all the time was to institute draconian levels of censorship based on arbitrary rules decided upon by the most hypersensitive and litigious subgroups in the community.
Well, obviously if you're voting for _________ then you must be a racist and sexist. So anything you say is hate speech.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
The name is a hoot and a half: "Trust and Safety Council". This sounds like something I would expect to see in a dictatorship, like North Korea, the former East Germany, Soviet Russia or a fistful of Middle East Sheikdoms.
Let's just call it what it really is: "Board of Censorship".
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Why all the sexism? Are you saying that women can't possibly be the trolls? Or is it agism, that trolling people is somehow a 12 year old thing? Perhaps you should expand your horizons and realize that ANYONE can troll, including the ones making up these rules!
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Any opinion not in the group is trolling.
If someone is breaking the law then providing tools to help gather evidence and support their prosecution is not usually considered censorship. Serious trolling is often illegal.
More over, Twitter is a private platform. They can set whatever standards they want, and don't owe anyone a platform. Like all private forums, they have to balance the ability to say anything against the desire to provide a platform to the greatest number of people and avoid creating an echo chamber with everyone screaming at each other. We have 8chan, the most extreme example of nearly unlimited speech (although still required to comply with US law), and it's not that popular, so I can see why Twitter doesn't want to emulate it.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC