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Interesting. I have a few reactions to that: * still bad that it took days given the exponential decay of social media impact * as you point out, that's some

Interesting. I have a few reactions to that: * still bad that it took days given the exponential decay of social media impact * as you point out, that's some low hanging fruit. For example, they explicitly permit parody accounts of any person * I'm curious if they respond equally to far-left memes

MBCook 9y ago
I don’t know about far left stuff but I’ve certainly seen a TON of complaints from women being harassed or targeted or out right under siege by hordes of users piling on them and complained that Twitter doesn’t do anything about it or even remove the reported tweets. My experience was joining Twitter and then within a month or two scene the attacks that started gamer gate. Things don’t seem to have improved since then even though they keep saying they’ll fix some of this stuff. I’ll believe it when I see it because so far they’ve never managed to do anything reasonable, at least in a sane timeframe.
- dogruck 9y ago
  Yes, I know two women who were explicitly doxed. Their cell phones started ringing incessantly. People posted and retweeted snapshots of their tweets. Oh -- one woman is transgender and she was "outed" as a "man." Twitter did nothing.
rtpg 9y ago
Sorry but that's a total false equivalency Far-left memes are about universal healthcare and destroying capitalism Far right memes are about genocide
- dogruck 9y ago
  That's nonsense, and I bet your comment will justifiably get down-voted to oblivion. On the other hand, I suspect many HN users will agree with your general sentiment. My response is that the political spectrum is cyclical. Therefore, as you move far enough in one direction, you wrap around to the other side, like the edges of a PacMan board. One example, in my opinion, is the idea that the "majority" or the "expert leaders" or "(pick your group)" are correct, and should be given absolute power. This then leads to horrible oppresssion, and destruction. Anyway, you should free your mind up a bit.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    But that idea exists in the whole spectrum, including the center.

MBCook 9y ago

I don’t know about far left stuff but I’ve certainly seen a TON of complaints from women being harassed or targeted or out right under siege by hordes of users piling on them and complained that Twitter doesn’t do anything about it or even remove the reported tweets. My experience was joining Twitter and then within a month or two scene the attacks that started gamer gate. Things don’t seem to have improved since then even though they keep saying they’ll fix some of this stuff. I’ll believe it when I see it because so far they’ve never managed to do anything reasonable, at least in a sane timeframe.

dogruck 9y ago
Yes, I know two women who were explicitly doxed. Their cell phones started ringing incessantly. People posted and retweeted snapshots of their tweets. Oh -- one woman is transgender and she was "outed" as a "man." Twitter did nothing.

rtpg 9y ago

Sorry but that's a total false equivalency Far-left memes are about universal healthcare and destroying capitalism Far right memes are about genocide

dogruck 9y ago
That's nonsense, and I bet your comment will justifiably get down-voted to oblivion. On the other hand, I suspect many HN users will agree with your general sentiment. My response is that the political spectrum is cyclical. Therefore, as you move far enough in one direction, you wrap around to the other side, like the edges of a PacMan board. One example, in my opinion, is the idea that the "majority" or the "expert leaders" or "(pick your group)" are correct, and should be given absolute power. This then leads to horrible oppresssion, and destruction. Anyway, you should free your mind up a bit.
- icebraining 9y ago
  But that idea exists in the whole spectrum, including the center.