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I'm not exactly a fan of the guy, but where's the evidence he told people to harass her?

by meowface 10y ago

maehwasu 10y ago
There isn't any, unless you redefine "saying some mean things" as "telling people to harass her."
- Thlom 10y ago
  He doesn't have to tell people to harass anyone. His followers will follow his lead.
  - atom-morgan 10y ago
    Should he be responsible for his follower's actions?
    - throwanem 10y ago
      Yes, because he is a bad person and his followers are bad people. Leslie Jones is a good person and her followers are good people, so in her case a different standard applies.
      - chmod775 10y ago
        I think the people downvoting this are missing the sarcasm. It was supposed to be sarcastic. Right?
        throwanem 10y ago
        I laugh because I must not cry.
intoverflow2 10y ago
He doesn't need to tell them specifically anything he just needs to retweet the right thing from someone and his followers will jump on them. Although Leslie also advocates/boasts about the exact same behaviour. Whole ordeal just highlighted how Twitter's Safety Council needs to teach high profile twitter users more about how trolls/harassers act on the internet. If someone says awful things to you the worst way to act is starting to reply with curse words and your momma jokes to every single one because you're just proving they're getting a rise out of you, they'll retweet your response and their followers will see they can also get a rise out of you. She pretty much poured gasoline on a match then wondered why she was engulfed in flames. What makes more sense? Teaching people how to deal with these harassers + report and move on, or expect twitter to pick up the pieces and babysit every celebrity who falls for the harassers bait then desperately try to ban users that are popping up out of nowhere and trying to decide if a user is a harasser or a sympathiser, several times Leslie told people sympathetic to her to f--- off (are they harassers in Twitters eyes?).
croon 10y ago
Likely there's a small mountain of trackable and connected data in Twitters datacenters that they can act on. But this is a private company with their relevant terms and conditions, and not a court of law. They are therefor not required to publicize private company data.

I'm not exactly a fan of the guy, but where's the evidence he told people to harass her?

maehwasu 10y ago

There isn't any, unless you redefine "saying some mean things" as "telling people to harass her."

Thlom 10y ago
He doesn't have to tell people to harass anyone. His followers will follow his lead.
- atom-morgan 10y ago
  Should he be responsible for his follower's actions?
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Yes, because he is a bad person and his followers are bad people. Leslie Jones is a good person and her followers are good people, so in her case a different standard applies.
    - chmod775 10y ago
      I think the people downvoting this are missing the sarcasm. It was supposed to be sarcastic. Right?
      - throwanem 10y ago
        I laugh because I must not cry.

intoverflow2 10y ago

He doesn't need to tell them specifically anything he just needs to retweet the right thing from someone and his followers will jump on them. Although Leslie also advocates/boasts about the exact same behaviour. Whole ordeal just highlighted how Twitter's Safety Council needs to teach high profile twitter users more about how trolls/harassers act on the internet. If someone says awful things to you the worst way to act is starting to reply with curse words and your momma jokes to every single one because you're just proving they're getting a rise out of you, they'll retweet your response and their followers will see they can also get a rise out of you. She pretty much poured gasoline on a match then wondered why she was engulfed in flames. What makes more sense? Teaching people how to deal with these harassers + report and move on, or expect twitter to pick up the pieces and babysit every celebrity who falls for the harassers bait then desperately try to ban users that are popping up out of nowhere and trying to decide if a user is a harasser or a sympathiser, several times Leslie told people sympathetic to her to f--- off (are they harassers in Twitters eyes?).

croon 10y ago

Likely there's a small mountain of trackable and connected data in Twitters datacenters that they can act on. But this is a private company with their relevant terms and conditions, and not a court of law. They are therefor not required to publicize private company data.