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I was going to write a long response to this, but I'll summarize it. This is not twitters problem and whether twitter has 10 or 10 million employees, their only

I was going to write a long response to this, but I'll summarize it. This is not twitters problem and whether twitter has 10 or 10 million employees, their only responsibility is to respond to legal requests from law enforcement. NBC news and the parents are shifting blame to the wrong entity.

alphaomegacode 4y ago
It's likely that in the area of content moderation and related matters, employee numbers do matter. The parents did their job and gave the child's iPhone to authorities. Authorities followed up and gave information to Twitter then corrected the misspelling and gave that corrected information to Twitter. Here's more info on Twitter disbanding it's Trust and Safety Council which addressed child exploitation as well as other matters https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-a9b795e8050de12319b82b5dd7118cd7 https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-... And here's an article about layoffs gutting Twitter's Child Safety Team to the point of one person doing said work in the Asia-Pacific region https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-material/ https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-mater...
jstarfish 4y ago
Yeah, everything was being handled as it should until the police fucked up. Errors introduce confusion. Confusion leads to delays. It's not Twitter's fault. > Twenty-five days before the abduction, police sent a search warrant to Twitter to learn more information about the man police believe was grooming the teen. But they misspelled the username. > When the police corrected the error several weeks later, Twitter did not immediately respond, police said. > Five days later, the teen was abducted, according to prosecutors and the McConneys.
dragonwriter 4y ago
> This is not twitters problem and whether twitter has 10 or 10 million employees, their only responsibility is to respond to legal requests from law enforcement. That’s not the only responsibility of online services when they know, or reasonably should know, of things like this. Also, Twitter failed to respond timely to a legal request from law enforcement, so even on that basic level they fell short of their responsibility here.

alphaomegacode 4y ago

It's likely that in the area of content moderation and related matters, employee numbers do matter. The parents did their job and gave the child's iPhone to authorities. Authorities followed up and gave information to Twitter then corrected the misspelling and gave that corrected information to Twitter. Here's more info on Twitter disbanding it's Trust and Safety Council which addressed child exploitation as well as other matters https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-a9b795e8050de12319b82b5dd7118cd7 https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-... And here's an article about layoffs gutting Twitter's Child Safety Team to the point of one person doing said work in the Asia-Pacific region https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-material/ https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-mater...

jstarfish 4y ago

Yeah, everything was being handled as it should until the police fucked up. Errors introduce confusion. Confusion leads to delays. It's not Twitter's fault. > Twenty-five days before the abduction, police sent a search warrant to Twitter to learn more information about the man police believe was grooming the teen. But they misspelled the username. > When the police corrected the error several weeks later, Twitter did not immediately respond, police said. > Five days later, the teen was abducted, according to prosecutors and the McConneys.

dragonwriter 4y ago

> This is not twitters problem and whether twitter has 10 or 10 million employees, their only responsibility is to respond to legal requests from law enforcement. That’s not the only responsibility of online services when they know, or reasonably should know, of things like this. Also, Twitter failed to respond timely to a legal request from law enforcement, so even on that basic level they fell short of their responsibility here.