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The reason this story has such traction is that Taylor Lorenz had an interview a few weeks ago where she broke down crying because of alleged harassment and dox
by bpodgursky 5y ago
The reason this story has such traction is that Taylor Lorenz had an interview a few weeks ago where she broke down crying because of alleged harassment and doxxing by other Twitter users (posting her contact info).
So... there's a rich element of hypocrisy to this episode.
- senthil_rajasek 5y agoTaylor Lorenz is a journalist and what she was doing ( finding out the true identity of the twitter account) is a fundamental part of her job. Reply guys harassing women and reporters on twitter are not journalists. Where is the hypocrisy?
- zionic 5y ago> Taylor Lorenz is a journalist and what she was doing ( finding out the true identity of the twitter account Um, what the fuck? It’s the job of “journalists” to find and dox pseudonymous social media accounts and link their professional info? Please tell me this is sarcasm/satire I missed
- a_shovel 5y ago> Um, what the fuck? It’s the job of “journalists” to find and dox pseudonymous social media accounts and link their professional info? Yeah. > Libs of TikTok has become a powerful force online, shaping right-wing media, impacting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation & influencing millions by posting viral videos aimed at inciting outrage. > Every formalized ethical code for journalists asks reporters to weigh privacy/harm against the public interest. The public interest in attribution of this account - an influential activist operating at significant scale - is overwheliming https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1516458690198474752 https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1516458690198474752
- berberous 5y agoTaylor could have published an article about the alleged harm the account is doing. Taylor perhaps could have even doxxed the account if the writer was in fact a public figure: that would be newsworthy. Taylor doxxing the identity of what turns out to be a completely unknown private citizen is not newsworthy; it adds nothing of value to the story, other than allowing this person to be harassed and intimidated for her views and actions. Her decrying her own harassment, while enabling the harassment of others, is pure hypocrisy.
- fortran77 5y agoI'm not interested in the left/right politics here; I'm interested in the statement that twitter employees will reveal customer info to reporters!
- pkd 5y agoThe article says "former" twitter employee, not current.
- newswasboring 5y agoIsn't that worse? Even the current employees shouldn't have access to this information. Let alone former ones.
- function_seven 5y agoHow does that improve or change things? Not a rhetorical question; I’m confused by the vagueness in the article. Was the employee current at the time of info sharing, and is now “former”? Or did they retain access to systems after leaving the company? Or did they pass info from a friend still working at twitter? In any of these cases it’s still troubling.
- cmckn 5y agoIt’s my understanding that this was a former employee not acting in official capacity; who likely violated their NDA.
- ghostpepper 5y agoThis still reflects poorly on Twitter infosec if they’re not offboarding users with that kind of access immediately upon their ceasing to be employed by Twitter.
- cmckn 5y agoThis was not a case of inappropriate access. This employee learned the identity of the account holder while working at Twitter. They later left the company. You can't erase confidential information from people's memory during "offboarding". That's where the NDA comes in.