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> Twitter really needs to give people the anti-abuse tools they demand. I strongly agree with this. It's a far better solution than censorship.
by grandalf 10y ago
> Twitter really needs to give people the anti-abuse tools they demand.
I strongly agree with this. It's a far better solution than censorship.
- eropple 10y agoThe people who actually harass (and are the ones who primarily bleat about "censorship" on private services) have been bleating about tools like BlockTogether and similar being "censorship"--how are "better anti-abuse tools" out of Twitter themselves any different? When--not if--these tools auto-block poisonous harassing protofascists from the default because they are poisonous harassing protofascists, how is that any different?
- grandalf 10y ago> how is that any different? It's different because then users who don't like content to be censored can turn it off. I turn off Google Safesearch and have not regretted it in the least.
- deong 10y agoWhat would those tools look like exactly? If you tell your 50,000 followers where I live and that what I really need is a bullet in the head, what does the tool do? Hide it from my feed? Super. When the armed militia appears on my lawn, at least I will have been spared the stress of reading about it first, I guess. That's a serious question. What anti-abuse tools do you think they should deploy that don't actually prevent people from posting or seeing the abuse?