This is amusing:
The blockbot that blocks all the terven:
The column farthest to the right is followers. You can see that Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have quite a few.
This is amusing:
The blockbot that blocks all the terven:
The column farthest to the right is followers. You can see that Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have quite a few.
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I don’t understand, are these the people using the blocker, or the people who are blocked by it?
Catwhisperer:
Those are the people who are blocked. So if you subscribe to that list, you won’t see anything by the trans-friendly Labour party or its leader. Or your friendly neighbourhood latsot, for that matter.
I’m on the list as well, even though I’ve barely issued a tweet or retweet. I think people get added for wronglike or wrongfollow as well as wrongtweet.
Which may explain the bizarre inclusion of the Labour Party.
Well, I feel left out. I’m tempted to create a twitter account just so I can be included.
WaM: There are plenty other TERF blocklists to be on, too, so you have your work cut out for you!
(not really, because blocklists tend to be shared so if you’re on one, you’re probably on ’em all.)
If anyone wants to find out which blocktogether.org lists they’re on, tweet the following:
Or so I’m told, I haven’t bothered to try it myself.
The original blockbot was started to allow people to protect themselves from abusive accounts and I was broadly in favour, although I never used it myself. Now blocklists – or at least the TERFy ones – are used to create tiresome echo chambers, but also for nastier purposes. We all know the sort of things being a Notorious TERF(tm) can lead to, so being put on a publicly searchable list of TERFs can be used as a threat or punishment of sorts.
I wouldn’t worry too much if you find yourself on one of these lists though; they usually have such a ridiculously large number of entries and such an enormous overlap that the noise mostly drowns out any signal.
NOTE: To be clear, there are blocklists that are operated by sites other than blocktogether.org, too.
latsot,
But I think a necessary condition for being on those blocklists is that you have a twitter account.
No no, the lists block people from ALL OF LIFE.
Ah, well then.
I see that two of the most followed blockees are Richard Dawkins and Anonymous.
WaM:
You weren’t assigned one at birth?
WaM, I’m sure having Richard Dawkins on the list of TERFs sort of creates problems for those who claim scientists are pretty much universal in their acceptance of trans ideology. (None of the science instructors from my school are, by the way. Most of the scientists I know personally do not believe a man can be a woman. And they are all people with advanced degrees, so while they can be dismissed by TRAs, the general public might not be so dismissive.)
Dawkins was straight-up evil enough to say that sex exists, so naturally he’s on there.
latsot, I was assigned 1960 at birth, and since that was pre-Twitter, they couldn’t assign me a Twitter-user at birth. Though I’m not sure why not, since these self-identities are so powerful, and since doctors make purely subjective calls by determining we are male/female. And I claim that 1960 is also a construct of western imperialism, and I can identify as whatever birth year I wish. I’m trying to be open to my inner essence, to figure out my real year of birth. I hope it doesn’t turn out to be one so recent that I can no longer buy wine.
I was assigned asthma at birth, along with a peanut allergy. But alas, no twitter.
Haha thanks, I couldn’t work out whether to find it hilarious that the Labour party was on the block list or to be horrified that Keir Starmer was using it. I’m still kind of hoping that he’ll grow some balls about the whole thing. Or ovaries, I don’t mind which. I’d be pretty rattled if he did the latter, but at least I could stop being angry all the time and chill out on the “humans can change sex” train.
An old Simpsons episode showed how many channels Ned Flanders blocked on his cable TV subscription, as an indication of how sheltered he was keeping his fundamentalist Christian household. It seems the “woke” are the new fundamentalists now.
iknklast: My one complaint about this commenting platform is one cannot click an instant “like” on a comment. I lol’ed!