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"Being safe from threat enables people to express very personal views and experiences" Only specific groups of people are safe when posting political views and
by paulhauggis 11y ago
"Being safe from threat enables people to express very personal views and experiences"
Only specific groups of people are safe when posting political views and experiences.
I saw many people posting that the cops should be shot, killed, or attacked during many of the Baltimore riots. There were no repercussions. Yet many people commenting on the poor behavior of the rioters either got fired, personally attacked online, or both. Twitter never stepped in in either of these cases.
The ex-Mozilla CEO was bullied online until he quit. His crime was contributing a small amount of money (I think it was $100) to something he believed in. If he was fired for contributing to a fund supporting gay-marriage, there would be outrage.
I seriously don't understand how racist, bigotry, and special treatment is supposed to be fought with the exact same behavior.
"showed negative responses to comments have made people uncomfortable contributing"
Are they also going to remove the vial and terrible responses to articles posted about Republicans, the wealthy, or Christians?