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It is kinda sad that this sort of stuff keeps coming up again and again. Yet it is Twitter and Facebook again and again that are the breeding grounds for the a
by mattlondon 5y ago
It is kinda sad that this sort of stuff keeps coming up again and again. Yet it is Twitter and Facebook again and again that are the breeding grounds for the abuse it seems.
I guess the argument from Twitter et al is "oh if we ban a racist troll they just re-register a new account. Sorry nothing we can do!". Well thanks Twitter for trying to ignore the problem, now we end up with legislation like this proposal which will be a fuck-ton more hassle and more importantly chilling-effect than something simpler that probably could have been done earlier but no one could be fagged to do, like e.g. defaulting to allowlist-only messages, sentiment analysis leading to human moderation, IP-based blocks/cooldowns, rate-limiting, client fingerprinting, nipple/genital-detecting ML, reputation-before-posting type systems etc.
Nah mate - nothing we can do! These damn trolls just totally outwit us here at <XX-billion dollar company> with hundreds/thousands of super-smart engineers every time they register a new account! It is unsolvable!
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoBesides, while twitter pretend not requiring a phone number to register, they effectively do. So they can do something, because trolls and bots are not that subtle, and can be detected, and ban is effective, because creating an account with a phone number is cheap, but not free.
- InCityDreams 5y ago"but no one could be fagged to do", could be really misinterpreted across the Atlantic, and possibly be a black mark against you in 'the future'..thank goodness for anonymity(!)
- HWR_14 5y ago> Well thanks Twitter for trying to ignore the problem, now we end up with legislation like this proposal which will be a fuck-ton more hassle And give Twitter valuable real world identities for their users. Forced on them by the government.