Slashdot Mirror
Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In the beginning of 2017, Twitter said it would take on harassment and hate speech. CEO Jack Dorsey said the company would embrace a "completely new approach to abuse on Twitter" with open dialogue along the way. For months, though, the company has offered few details about what it would do, or when. That changed late yesterday, when Twitter posted a timeline with specific promises on actions it will take. The changes begin next week. On October 27, Twitter will expand what types of "non-consensual nudity" (aka "revenge porn") that it takes action against. The company will already act when a victim complains, but Twitter will soon act even in cases where the victims may not be aware images were taken, instances like upskirt photos and hidden webcams. "Anyone we identify as the original poster of non-consensual nudity will be suspended immediately," the October entry reads. On November 3, Twitter will ban hate imagery in profile headers and avatars, and the service will start suspending accounts "for organizations that use violence to advance their cause." The same day it will institute a policy of stopping "Unwanted Sexual Advances," although the company says it has already been taking enforcement actions on this front. Later in November, Twitter will ban "hateful display names."
.jpg.img.fullhd.medium.jpg){kind=link}
I look forward to seeing Antifa accounts suspended.
-- Will program for bandwidth
It’s a strange world we live in where being against Nazis and Fascists is made out to be a bad thing. Did everyone forget WWII?
Personally I'm waiting to see if they'll go through an ban all BLM-affiliated accounts. BLM has literally gone out and assassinated police officers, this should be pretty cut-and-dry. Bet you they won't, though.
Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is acceptable. It's always been acceptable and it always will be acceptable. It may not be politically correct to punch nazis, but that's too bad. Suck it up, buttercup.
Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is part of our heritage. You're not trying to destroy our heritage, are you?
Here is the problem. ANTIFA are Nazis. They look like Nazis and act like Nazis. They just do not know what a Nazi is.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
I look forward to seeing Antifa accounts suspended.
Good luck with that.
A fuckton of people are on Gab after getting kicked off of twitter, and are running a thread Not Allowed on Twitter.
I realize this is probably a biased sample, but there's a lot of "*this* got me kicked off, while *that* is allowed" posts that highlight the double-standard.
It would seem that left-leaning posts are taken with a wink and a smile, while right-leaning posts are censored with an overreaching iron fist. It's often completely mysterious what twitter standards are violated; apparently talking about and linking to someone twitter doesn't like (such as Milo) is enough to get you banned, even if the actual text is pedestrian such as "I saw this guy speak last night and he was OK".
There was one post that came out completely against Nazis (saying things like "Nazis are bad, I don't condone nazis, and the like) and apparently used the word "nazi" too many times and got banned. All from completely unexciting text.
Here's an example of a post that's *allowed* on twitter.
Here is the problem. ANTIFA are Nazis. They look like Nazis and act like Nazis. They just do not know what a Nazi is.
Actually they are fascists that think themselves marxists.
"His name was James Damore."
Trump said some were good people.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
You think we just killed the Nazis that burned Jews? No, my friend, we killed every Nazi we could. If you put on the swastika and saluted Hitler, you were a target. Nothing has changed.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Funniest thing I've read this week.
Oh wait, you were serious. You actually think that AntiFa are national socialists. The group whose sole shared goal is opposing the far right, are also the far right.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Do you believe every single news outlet in the world is using a photoshopped image of a Nazi being punched?
Here a local Florida newspaper:
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/...
And here's a British newspaper:
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
And here's a video of Richard Spencer being punched, just because it's so fun to watch:
https://youtu.be/9rh1dhur4aI
You are welcome on my lawn.
Got news for you: A lot of the original Nazis were also just cowards waving the flag.
It's simple: You wave the Nazi flag, you're a Nazi. There's no need to over-think this.
You are welcome on my lawn.
According to Twitter, no violence is acceptable, so if that is the policy all Antifa related accounts should be terminated. It doesn't matter how you feel about violence being acceptable, what matters in this case are Twitter's term of service.
P.S. if you endorse a philosophy where it is OK to use violence against people, they it is equally OK for them to use violence against you because hey, they also think you are fascists. That is why advocating for violence on any grounds is never very smart, because there is always someone who can classify you as being within the bounds you yourself set.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If Antifa is serious about violence against Nazis, why haven't the gone after admitted Nazi collaborator George Soros?
Oh, that's right, because he bankrolls their operations through his "Open Society Foundation".
Do you believe every single news outlet in the world is
Before the 2016 election, I would have laughed at you for claiming that "every single outlet in the world [is wrong]". But we live in strange times, and news outlets aren't based in reality. At best, they report things that make money, or that garner eyeballs. At worst, they mislead the public to push political agendas and issues that benefit their shareholders and owners. And yeah, they frequently all report the wrong facts together, in a sort of hysteria. If you work in IT this phenomenon is obvious. A popular consensus of stupidity does not make an idea (or a news article) any less stupid.
Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is acceptable. It's always been acceptable and it always will be acceptable.
No, it hasn't.
Liberals used to stand up for free speech. I was proud to be among them back then.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Except one side defines "Nazi" as anyone who disagrees with their extremist social and political decisions. And even if they were fighting only actual neo-Nazis, adopting every negative trait of a Nazi to fight a Nazi only makes you a hypocrite, not a freedom fighter.
And you had better remember that the precedent and laws you set today will be turned against you tomorrow. Punch a Nazi today and tomorrow *you* may be the Nazi that someone has decided that it's okay to punch.
And anyway, I don't want to live in a U.S. where the only freedom allowed is the freedom to agree.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
You repeat that canard, but it's just not true. We're talking about literal Nazis, promoting literal ethnic cleansing using literal swastikas. Just because they put a picture of Pepe next to the swastika doesn't make them less Nazi.
You are welcome on my lawn.