tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post5534000603714005522..comments2024-01-20T02:06:45.388-08:00Comments on The Political Omnivore: De-Trolling The Internet?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-2740714699000588702014-11-25T10:21:32.279-08:002014-11-25T10:21:32.279-08:00[veronica]
Well, in theory Twitter has always bee...[veronica]<br /><br />Well, in theory Twitter has always been willing to block abusive accounts. The problem was the reporting mechanism, which was clumsy, and the process, which was slow. By the time Twitter acted, the abuser had often had *literally months* to grief people. Blocking helps. In fact, I'm one of the mods on the block bot, which people can sign up to and get blocks automatically added to their accounts. This greatly improves Twitter usability.<br /><br />That said, there is some general agreement that Twitter is too slow to act in cases of genuine abuse. On the other hand, the guy doxing Brianna Wu was taken down pretty fast. So that is good. Also it seems Twitter is forming some loose alliances with feminist watchdog groups to help speed the process, which will help women targeted by sexist men, certainly a major problem. However, it will do little to help men who are targeted. And surely "let's just fix this for woman" is not an ideal solution.<br /><br />Anyway, Twitter has long needed to take this more seriously. I think they are beginning to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-72563751376650662832014-11-24T08:39:59.226-08:002014-11-24T08:39:59.226-08:00To my understanding, none of the 'silenced'...To my understanding, none of the 'silenced' people have spoken out so we don't know. For the record, I'm not sure that blocking a voice is a bad thing. I realize that for every voice I -want- there are plenty I think it's okay to block--and I'm not sure how to split the atom on that--but I also think that if Twitter actually shuts down feeds that are abusive (by some reasonable standard), I'm good with that even if I like it.<br /><br />So I think being able to stop personally targeted "Denial of Sanity" attacks is a good thing. I'm willing to kill voices for that. Trolls can launch their own Twitter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-2818307582346078102014-11-24T08:23:01.060-08:002014-11-24T08:23:01.060-08:00[veronica here]
But to be clear, was anyone claim...[veronica here]<br /><br />But to be clear, was anyone claiming their tweets were literally *deleted*? Or were there simply *no notifications*? Those are very different ideas. In the first case, yeah, that is blocking a voice. In the second case, that is simply protecting users from abuse.<br /><br />Which, look, it is one thing for someone to say "veronica is a gross tranny." It is another to *force me to listen to them*. With Twitter, a great deal happens with notifications. I cannot read every tweet on my feed, nor do I see tweets from those I do not follow, so if someone wants to talk to me, they add @{username}. Then I see. This is good. I like to hear from people.<br /><br />However, things change if some army of shit-monkeys decide to ruin my day by coming hard. Then my mentions clog. My phone chirps and chirps again. Little nuggets of hate show up on the screen.<br /><br />It *really fucking sucks*.<br /><br />I cannot imagine what is like for Anita or Zoe. (I know a woman who was getting like 10 notifications *a second* during the height of GG. Fuck that shit.)<br /><br />In any case, Twitter becomes largely unusable at that point. So a learning algorithm that will block this stuff seems a fine thing to me. Captain Jackass can still send his tweet. Anyone so foolish as to read his feed can see it. But his targets can go on perfectly happy in their day-to-day.<br /><br />Unless of course they want to go looking for it. But they can do that if want, as much as they want, according to their own schedule.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-83544170388730541482014-11-18T09:47:23.026-08:002014-11-18T09:47:23.026-08:00"Twitter is an anti-feminist hive of scum and..."Twitter is an anti-feminist hive of scum and villainy."<br /><br />But this was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, no? Hell, the Mos Eisley Spaceport probably didn't even have WiFi or charging stations back then.<br /><br />-- ΩAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com