Twitter Vs...

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

You and I know that this simply won't happen - the courts of every country in the world would have a backlog of cases that would never be heard, and the legal system would grind to a halt if everyone with a legitimate or perceived grievance sought justice in this way.
How many hundreds of thousands of folk do you think are threatened on the web every day?
I always aim for double figures myself, but some folk are even more prolific.
You would need thousands of moderators working 24/7 to keep a lid on things, and tracking offending folk down would prove to be a logistical nightmare.
Fake Facebook and Twitter accounts are ten a penny, and what about folk who use a shared computer, or use those in libraries or schools?
Ridding the internet of racism and hatred is a most laudable aim, but utterly impossible to achieve in the real world.

But a few keywords get flagged and the people using these are banned - i bet its not that difficult.

I've never found it that difficult getting banned at all - it's staying online that I find problematical.
Even keywords present problems - I read an article the other day about how paedophiles on the internet have effectively created buzzwords to conceal their actual content and purpose, so that they fly under any moderators radar, and communicate unhampered and undetected, as nobody other than fellow nonces clock it.

 

[kenzie115]

As soon as you see one tweet aimed at you that isn't to your liking, you can block that account from your timeline and never read anything they post again. Should they then make another false account and tweet you just block again.

No one has to suffer SUSTAINED abuse on either of these sites.

If the abuser is constantly setting up new accounts and sending abusive messages, how is that not sustained abuse?

 

[BlueBearBoots]

As soon as you see one tweet aimed at you that isn't to your liking, you can block that account from your timeline and never read anything they post again. Should they then make another false account and tweet you just block again.

No one has to suffer SUSTAINED abuse on either of these sites.

If the abuser is constantly setting up new accounts and sending abusive messages, how is that not sustained abuse?

I admit I don't know whether it was a few people abusing SC with lots of different fake accounts or 100's of users abusing him once or twice but would one person keep setting up new accounts just to send a character limited abusive msg to SC? If so then sorry but I don't see how even Twitter could stop that other than as suggested above by someone else - credit card details and £1 subscription that is refunded etc etc

 

[wayne71]

PS. Even on this forum I believe there is a function to block posts from users you do not wish to see?

Yes but its pretty useless as you can't block mods.

 

[malg]

PS. Even on this forum I believe there is a function to block posts from users you do not wish to see?

Yes but its pretty useless as you can't block mods.

......snigger!

 

[dazdon]

When this twitter outrage has finished there will be another one.

Half of Twitter users are just attention whores anyway and the other half are just sheep following them and each other.

I have had death threats many times (I don't understand why) but I don't even report them because I know it's all blather.

Sometimes the internet is like an old Victorian public toilet...if you don't roll your pants up your trousers are going to get wet. The way to avoid your kecks getting wet is to not go into the toilet in the first place.

 

[andyhinch]

PS. Even on this forum I believe there is a function to block posts from users you do not wish to see?

Yes but its pretty useless as you can't block mods.

......snigger!

You can report them though, just saying like:)

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Yes but its pretty useless as you can't block mods.

......snigger!

You can report them though, just saying like:)

I'm going to start doing just that.
They are forever picking on me - it's victimisation, that's what it is.
I'm being persecuted for my beliefs.
I know how Mandela felt now, and poor misunderstood Stan.
We are martyrs to free speech, and the inalienable basic human right to call folk cunts.

 

[dazdon]

Pair jailed over abusive tweets to feminist campaigner
Breaking news

A man and a woman have both been jailed for sending abusive messages on Twitter to feminist campaigner feminist Caroline Criado-Perez.

Isabella Sorley, 23, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who also targeted Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.

John Nimmo, 25, of Tyne and Wear, was jailed for eight weeks.

They had pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to improper use of a communications network.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25886026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25886026</a>

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[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Pair jailed over abusive tweets to feminist campaigner
Breaking news

A man and a woman have both been jailed for sending abusive messages on Twitter to feminist campaigner feminist Caroline Criado-Perez.

Isabella Sorley, 23, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who also targeted Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.

John Nimmo, 25, of Tyne and Wear, was jailed for eight weeks.

They had pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to improper use of a communications network.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25886026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25886026</a>

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