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One thing that bothers me about twitter is that there is a special case of harassement that is just impossible to report: trending topics. Here in Mexico (can'

by rsoto 9y ago

One thing that bothers me about twitter is that there is a special case of harassement that is just impossible to report: trending topics. Here in Mexico (can't say if that happens anywhere else), every week or two there are hate trending topics against women, other countries and indigenous people and these last for more than a day. If twitter wants to be a «safe and welcoming place» for anybody, they are missing out a huge issue, as there is no way to report a trending topic nor to find who created/popularized it in the first place (so we can report it, altough I'm sure it wouldn't lead to anything). I can't imagine what's going on twitter directive's heads, as the trending topic is almost one of the top 5 things a new user sees. For what I can tell, these trending topics are created by influencers and bots to flex their muscles before a paid campaign, often regarding the government.

jordigh 9y ago
I haven't followed Mexican Twitter much, so I'm a little surprised but not too much to hear that there are anti-women trending topics with regularity. Do you think this is a general Mexican machismo cultural problem or something that is more localised to the internet?
- rsoto 9y ago
  Can't say for sure, but we mexicans are very hypocrite about racism. We look at the US and can't believe how they treat their immigrants, but we do the same in the south border. I have heard that we treat them even worse than what happens in our north border. There's a machismo culture and it might be the worst about ourselves, but also we look down to the indigenous population, saying things like «you are so indigenous» to mock somebody who has done something stupid. Obviously we are not all like that, but when you look at the average mexican, things are not looking too good. So there's that, but also the thing about the trending topics is that it looks like it's created by people that gets paid to create them. And between jobs they are testing their weapons, focusing on a controversial issue (when you click on a trending topic it's almost 50%-50% people using it to make their hateful statement to those who use it to defend the affected group of people). Regardless, a platform as interested in their user's safety shouldn't be a megaphone for hate speech.
- stevenwoo 9y ago
  Somewhat recently a reporter in Mexico was sexually assaulted and got a hold of surveillance footage and posted it to twitter to try to shame the police (they have a pretty poor record of prosecution of this sort of thing) and she was attacked pretty hard on twitter (and it sounds like the Mexican police were not very sympathetic when she reported it.). https://news.vice.com/article/reporters-video-of-sexual-assault-highlights-impunity-in-mexico https://news.vice.com/article/reporters-video-of-sexual-assa...
beager 9y ago
I hope that this will be covered by "Expanded Definition of Spam and Related Behaviors". In fact, I hope for major action on that front because I feel like it's a force multiplier for all of the other guidelines that they're pushing on, and it's one place where they could end up marking down their activity metrics greatly, to the detriment of their revenue and stock price.
craftyguy 9y ago
there's also the other case of harassment they fail to address: donald

by rsoto 9y ago

jordigh 9y ago

I haven't followed Mexican Twitter much, so I'm a little surprised but not too much to hear that there are anti-women trending topics with regularity. Do you think this is a general Mexican machismo cultural problem or something that is more localised to the internet?

rsoto 9y ago
Can't say for sure, but we mexicans are very hypocrite about racism. We look at the US and can't believe how they treat their immigrants, but we do the same in the south border. I have heard that we treat them even worse than what happens in our north border. There's a machismo culture and it might be the worst about ourselves, but also we look down to the indigenous population, saying things like «you are so indigenous» to mock somebody who has done something stupid. Obviously we are not all like that, but when you look at the average mexican, things are not looking too good. So there's that, but also the thing about the trending topics is that it looks like it's created by people that gets paid to create them. And between jobs they are testing their weapons, focusing on a controversial issue (when you click on a trending topic it's almost 50%-50% people using it to make their hateful statement to those who use it to defend the affected group of people). Regardless, a platform as interested in their user's safety shouldn't be a megaphone for hate speech.
stevenwoo 9y ago
Somewhat recently a reporter in Mexico was sexually assaulted and got a hold of surveillance footage and posted it to twitter to try to shame the police (they have a pretty poor record of prosecution of this sort of thing) and she was attacked pretty hard on twitter (and it sounds like the Mexican police were not very sympathetic when she reported it.). https://news.vice.com/article/reporters-video-of-sexual-assault-highlights-impunity-in-mexico https://news.vice.com/article/reporters-video-of-sexual-assa...

beager 9y ago

I hope that this will be covered by "Expanded Definition of Spam and Related Behaviors". In fact, I hope for major action on that front because I feel like it's a force multiplier for all of the other guidelines that they're pushing on, and it's one place where they could end up marking down their activity metrics greatly, to the detriment of their revenue and stock price.

craftyguy 9y ago

there's also the other case of harassment they fail to address: donald