Pebbles Hooper, Amy Mek, Cursed Salad and others such as Kaeley Triller and even alcohol healthwatch are allowed to post abusive or hateful content, and in the case of alcohol healthwatch, hateful conduct and platform manipulation. How Twitter allows such content and accounts to remain on the platform should raise some serious questions. On Twitter, the rules are getting a lot stricter and there is a crackdown on abusive content (and rightfully so). Small accounts, such as stan accounts i.e. K-pop fan accounts, celebrity fan accounts, and normal accounts such as resistors get banned for less - such as using swear words at someone else or cursing former president Donald Trump. Sure, some of the content that normal users post would violate the rules and Twitter was right to take action in those cases, but what we're seeing here is that big and/or verified accounts are not only allowed to do it over and over again, but also are given a free pass to be egregious, such as Amy Mek, whose account is nothing but reeks of total Islamophobia and anti refugee racism/discrimination without a fear of suspension. We will be looking at two cases here as an example of this. One case here is Pebbles Hooper: She has accrued multiple strikes on her account (see the page on her for info). Had anyone else who is not a public figure or a child of someone famous made the same number of violations as Pebbles, they perhaps would have been suspended, perhaps immediately. My feeling is because she is the daughter of two fashion designers and business people, and due to the number of followers she has, and also being a social commentator, she is being given a free pass to harass and abuse others on Twitter, over and over again. We are going to look at Amy Mek next, an Islamophobic woman with a bot like profile appearance. Despite the appearance, Amy Mek is indeed, a real person, and almost everything she posts on her timeline is against the Twitter rules: From hateful content to Covid 19 misinformation and conspiracy theories. There is just too many tweets to document them all, therefore I won't be creating a page for her. But one thing is for certain - despite the fact the account warrants a permanent suspension, Twitter allows Amy Mek to spew out her vile abuse and misinformation. This is another example of Twitter's failure of moderation. These people, for example, have proven that they cannot use Twitter without being abusive or hateful. Yet Twitter gives them a platform because of their high profile nature. Yet if normal users were to tweet like the examples above, they would get suspended. What can be done about this?
Twitter needs to apply the rules to everyone, equally. Politicians, fashion designers, celebrities, businesses, organizations and charities etc. (list goes on) needs to and must abide by the rules and not act in an abusive, hateful and a manipulative manner that disrupts anyone else's experience. Furthermore, they must not spread misinformation or disinformation. Any verified account found to violate the rules once should be stripped of their blue check mark until they delete their tweet and appeal. Making violations more than once should be an automatic and a permanent loss of the verified status without appeal. Any verified account dedicated to abuse, hatred or misinformation should be suspended. Any account reported for abuse or hateful conduct should have their whole account scanned by Twitter and accounts found to be set up solely to dedicating themselves to being hateful or abusive (Examples: Pebbles Hooper, Amy Mek, Kaeley Triller, JK Rowling) should be suspended permanently. Until Twitter takes moderating high profile accounts, verified accounts, and large accounts seriously (including imposing bans), we will see it for an abusive account such as Pebbles, Kaeley and Amy, "one rule for me and another for thee".
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