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Indeed. There's a reason leftist types have been escaping gradually escaping to Mastodon instances where they have much more useful content-blocking tools and a

Indeed. There's a reason leftist types have been escaping gradually escaping to Mastodon instances where they have much more useful content-blocking tools and aren't forced under pain of being banned to share a space with people who literally want them dead. On Twitter, a self-identifying neonazi can spout death threats, and the response to that will get the responder banned.

swebs 8y ago
>Twitter, a self-identifying neonazi can spout death threats, and the response to that will get the responder banned. Could you link an example?
- vertex-four 8y ago
  Not without identifying myself, sorry. I sit in multiple irc channels where this sort of thing regularly happens to members though. It’s the bizarre inconsistency of it that’s most grating - content can result in bans or not depending on... as far as anyone can tell, a roll of the dice. For any number of instances where a fascist says something awful and gets away with it, you can find much more banal things that get leftists banned.
- rspeer 8y ago
  It will be hard to satisfy your demand for proof, because there's no good way to search "tweets you've seen", but I have seen it happen. Person A starts a thread. Person B who A doesn't know says something dehumanizing to person A. Person A says "fuck off and die". Person A gets shadowbanned for a week. There was even a time when, due to their bad automated processes, you could get shadowbanned for using the word "queer" in a positive sense. (Hilariously, Twitter's position on shadowbanning is that they do no such thing, they just hide your tweets from everyone's timeline, which is exactly what everyone means when they say "shadowban".)
  - stuckinarut 8y ago
    > Person A says "fuck off and die". That's not a death threat. That's mean and callous and rude, but it's not a threat.
    - rspeer 8y ago
      This seems intended as an argument against my post, but I agree entirely.

swebs 8y ago

>Twitter, a self-identifying neonazi can spout death threats, and the response to that will get the responder banned. Could you link an example?

vertex-four 8y ago
Not without identifying myself, sorry. I sit in multiple irc channels where this sort of thing regularly happens to members though. It’s the bizarre inconsistency of it that’s most grating - content can result in bans or not depending on... as far as anyone can tell, a roll of the dice. For any number of instances where a fascist says something awful and gets away with it, you can find much more banal things that get leftists banned.
rspeer 8y ago
It will be hard to satisfy your demand for proof, because there's no good way to search "tweets you've seen", but I have seen it happen. Person A starts a thread. Person B who A doesn't know says something dehumanizing to person A. Person A says "fuck off and die". Person A gets shadowbanned for a week. There was even a time when, due to their bad automated processes, you could get shadowbanned for using the word "queer" in a positive sense. (Hilariously, Twitter's position on shadowbanning is that they do no such thing, they just hide your tweets from everyone's timeline, which is exactly what everyone means when they say "shadowban".)
- stuckinarut 8y ago
  > Person A says "fuck off and die". That's not a death threat. That's mean and callous and rude, but it's not a threat.
  - rspeer 8y ago
    This seems intended as an argument against my post, but I agree entirely.