Imagine considering threats abusive
The Daily Dot tells us, with great indignation, that trans activists are getting Twitter suspensions or bans merely for threatening women they dislike. What is the world coming to when people aren’t free to threaten women on social media?
Trans Twitter has witnessed a spike in transgender users having their accounts suspended or banned on Twitter, and people are searching for answers. Given the apparently related manner in which these suspensions are happening, the community suspects a targeted effort against them. But who?
Some think it has to do with the word “TERF” while others think it takes more than that.
One trans Twitter user, who wished to remain anonymous, shared her evidence with the Daily Dot for TERF itself not being the sole key to this censorship. “Anecdotally I’ve been using TERF constantly without consequence, and so have many others,” she said. She pointed to the Twitter account Your Fave Hates TERFs as further evidence that just using the acronym is not enough to have action taken against you.
Yet the combination of TERF and any keyword that could be considered violent seems to be all it takes to get Twitter’s algorithms to designate a tweet as abusive.
Ohhhh…mere violence. Gee, how dare they.
That and a big push from mass organized reporting. “A tweet that said ‘kick TERFs out of your spaces’ is actionable because of the word kick. They’re mass reporting tweets like that,” she said. Another blatant example of this is the following tweets, which were labeled “abusive”:
We are shown some tweets that talk about giving TERFs some punch and mixing the punch “real good” and giving them straws to make sure they do not choke.
Rather than an explicit policy change, it seems to be TERFs abusing an automated system that sees words like “kick” and “punch,” but not the words that give them context, and certainly not the societal context that informs how trans people talk about TERFs.
Ahhhhhhhh yes the “societal context” that makes it perfectly all right for “activists” to talk publicly about punching kicking stabbing killing feminist women who object to being shoved out of their own spaces, political movements, realities, histories, experiences, everything, to make way for men who are determined to take them over.
Talk about reversing victim and offender.
Discussions of the harm TERFs do to the trans community, or even light-hearted jokes at their expense, might be enough to get someone removed from the platform altogether.
Oh yes those lighthearted jokes about punching stabbing killing women. If only women had a sense of humor, knowutImean?
Aw. Poor crybullies. They mass report gender critical accounts for expressing the opinion that trans women aren’t women. Gender critical people report them for “joking” about beating up women.
That is SO unfair. Quick, somebody call a waahmbulance!
Not sure if this is best shared here, or in the Miscellany Room, so it’s going both places.
https://convincingreasons.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/the-liberal-censors-extend-their-reach/
I sympathise slightly, in that twitter has been very slow to act against actual nazis, and so perhaps they were expected twitter to simply ignore them as relative small fry. I’m actually a little surprised myself that twitter is taking action against them so rapidly, but I suppose part of the delay was in crafting in-house software to algorithmically tackle the problem; now that it has been crafted and unleashed, it stands to reason that additional follow-up would be much more swift as that simply requires a few extra words thrown into its vocabulary pool.
I have found the perfect method to avoid getting thrown off Twitter. I have never been on Twitter, so it is impossible for them to throw me off. There. Solved that.
Still, I am surprised to see that threats against women are against Twitter policy, since they refused for so long to do anything about the MRAs and their ilk.
And maybe it’s time to throw Trump off Twitter? After all, Twitter isn’t owned by the government, so it should not be obligated to carry the juvenile words of the toddler president.
And what a feather in the cap it would be for them if they did! Such a simple move to take, a single ban, and it would greatly aid them in their efforts to be seen as taking a stance against abuse and fake news.
And think of the highly entertaining screeching about freedom of speech!