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Perhaps you were just not aware? "In July 2016 he was permanently banned from Twitter for what the company cited as "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse

Perhaps you were just not aware? "In July 2016 he was permanently banned from Twitter for what the company cited as "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others", referring to a harassment campaign against actor Leslie Jones and others."

nailer 8y ago
The weird thing is Milo was apparently removed not for his own specific tweets being mean to Leslie Jones, but because he has lots of followers and he's apparently responsible for their actions. Which is bizarre: Beyoncé fans often harass Taylor Swift but that doesn't make Beyoncé responsible for the actions of others. Meanwhile Peter Fonda has spent this week making death threats and still has an active account.
- adventured 8y ago
  > Meanwhile Peter Fonda has spent this week making death threats and still has an active account. He did a lot worse than that. He was very directly advocating for the kidnapping, harm and rape of a specific child. You can't get any more open agenda than that as it pertains to the extreme bias in Silicon Valley. Their rules simply do not apply to their favored people. It will be necessary to regulate the tech platforms to stop it (and the Republicans will absolutely do just that, soon). I'm a socially liberal, political independent and the extreme SV bias has me cheering for aggressive regulation of the big platforms at this point. It would be quite simple to implement: if they fail to consistently enforce their own terms, FCC fines that increase in scale with each subsequent violation. Something along the lines of a $10 million starter fine for allowing Peter Fonda to use the Twitter platform to directly threaten harm to a child and taking no action against the user. Ramp it up by $10m with each violation. Either Twitter stops selectively enforcing their own policies, or they get bankrupted (the fine stacking melts with good behavior over time). You'd either apply this regulation to only major platforms (based on users or revenue or both), or scale the fines / consequences to match the size of the service.

nailer 8y ago

The weird thing is Milo was apparently removed not for his own specific tweets being mean to Leslie Jones, but because he has lots of followers and he's apparently responsible for their actions. Which is bizarre: Beyoncé fans often harass Taylor Swift but that doesn't make Beyoncé responsible for the actions of others. Meanwhile Peter Fonda has spent this week making death threats and still has an active account.

adventured 8y ago
> Meanwhile Peter Fonda has spent this week making death threats and still has an active account. He did a lot worse than that. He was very directly advocating for the kidnapping, harm and rape of a specific child. You can't get any more open agenda than that as it pertains to the extreme bias in Silicon Valley. Their rules simply do not apply to their favored people. It will be necessary to regulate the tech platforms to stop it (and the Republicans will absolutely do just that, soon). I'm a socially liberal, political independent and the extreme SV bias has me cheering for aggressive regulation of the big platforms at this point. It would be quite simple to implement: if they fail to consistently enforce their own terms, FCC fines that increase in scale with each subsequent violation. Something along the lines of a $10 million starter fine for allowing Peter Fonda to use the Twitter platform to directly threaten harm to a child and taking no action against the user. Ramp it up by $10m with each violation. Either Twitter stops selectively enforcing their own policies, or they get bankrupted (the fine stacking melts with good behavior over time). You'd either apply this regulation to only major platforms (based on users or revenue or both), or scale the fines / consequences to match the size of the service.