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I think the only solution here is strict enforcement of anti harrassment laws. Sending threats, harrassing someone's employer, doxxing someone, etc, should resu
by dahfizz 6y ago
I think the only solution here is strict enforcement of anti harrassment laws. Sending threats, harrassing someone's employer, doxxing someone, etc, should result in a permanent ban on the relevant platform and possibly jail time.
- pjc50 6y agoThis should also apply if the press and media do it, which they do routinely.
- dahfizz 6y agoI'd be completely happy with that.
- monocasa 6y agoWhy is informing someone's employer that their behavior is so abhorrent it makes you not want to associate with the employer anymore so bad as to be a bannable offence?
- oh_sigh 6y agoOP says "harassing someones employer". Presumably that's more than writing a message on a feedback form.
- monocasa 6y agoWhy should you limit yourself to a feedback form?
- axaxs 6y agoBecause this is rarely, if ever, the case. Going after employers has the single goal of getting someone fired. It's mob punishment, and nothing more. It sets a scary precedent when free speech is restricted for this reason. 'Think like us, or be unemployed' is the current state of the US. Sad.
- belorn 6y agoIs the purpose to cause harm to the individual? That is the common question behind anti harrassment laws. Even if a person has a legit grievance, intent to cause physical or psychological harm is still illegal. If it is difficult to separate that question for someone who has political abhorrent views, imagine a neighbor who acts abhorrent. Their dog is barking all the time, leaves dog shits on your lawn, their car is blocking you, they play loud music late at night, and so on. Are you allowed to call their employer and try get them fired for being an awful person? If the answer is no because that would be harassment then the answer doesn't change when their abhorrent behavior is political rather than being an abhorrent neighbor.
- monocasa 6y agoI'd imagine if you called their employer to tell them your examples, the employer would laugh in your face. There's a difference between 'their dog barks too much' and 'they're marching through the streets advocating for genocide'.
- re 6y ago> not want to associate with the employer anymore How many of the people contacting an employer demanding someone be fired (a) actually have any association with that employer (e.g. Amy Cooper being fired from Franklin Templeton), or (b) have any intent of actually changing their behavior if the employee is not fired (stop using Google, stop going to Starbucks, etc.)?
- monocasa 6y agoApparently enough that the employer takes the complaint seriously. I mean, in your Amy Cooper example, she was a VP. Part of her job was literally to represent the values and ethics of the company. They obviously took the opinion that being associated with her was worse than what she could bring to the table.
- axaxs 6y agoNo, they fold to faux mob voices. Twitter has far too much power behind it, currently. I can't wait until companies treat it like the cess pool it really is.
- 0x00000000 6y agoI have reported many people for doxxing on twitter and of the ones that even got a follow up notification, they were all given 12 hour suspensions. Takes about a week on average for them to get to a report.