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>"brigading", gamergate). Gamergate escalated into real-life death threats against its targets. No it didn't. It really didn't. No more than Twitter normally i
by milesrout 10y ago
>"brigading", gamergate). Gamergate escalated into real-life death threats against its targets.
No it didn't. It really didn't. No more than Twitter normally is. 'I hope you die' and 'I hope you get shot' aren't death threats, they're horrible things to say. There's a difference.
- pjc50 10y agohttp://www.businessinsider.com/brianna-wu-harassed-twitter-2014-10?IR=T#ixzz3G1NiMaPh http://www.businessinsider.com/brianna-wu-harassed-twitter-2... (Trigger warning: contains mildly redacted actual death threats) (mind you, the whole question of #twitterjoketrial was whether "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" constituted an offence against the Communications Act 2003 by being of a "menacing" character.)
- mafribe 10y agoWhat reason is there to believe that Wu (aka John Walker Flynt) and the businessinsider report are credible sources? There are financial interest at play here that I'm not being given sufficiently strong reasons to ignore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
- milesrout 10y agoBut that's an isolated incident. Those aren't common, and even if they were common, Twitter is great about reporting those people to the police.