How social media giants manage to get things totally wrong.
Social media stuffs up on the basics - by punishing people who call Nazis and bigots out, and failing to action accounts that engage in hateful conduct, actual abuse/harassment, or those that post violent or graphic imagery, threats or even those that engage in child exploitation.
This page will contain some examples of how they fail the basics of punishing those who post content that shouldn't even violate community standards - like breastfeeding or nude protests, or screenshots of tweets and posts that violate the community standards but have not been removed.
How Twitter locked Randi Lee Harper out for calling a transphobic person a "Twat".
Apparently her meme calling someone a Twat, and several of her tweets were deemed "not OK" by Twitter....
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BUT...
Being an utterly transphobic clown is OK. His tweet is still up.
Being an utterly transphobic clown is OK. His tweet is still up.
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Apparently, being a transphobic bigot is A-OK in this case, but calling someone a twat (which, is commonly used in everyday language - example - "Don't be such a twat, Miranda") isn't.
Although Randi clearly is calling a transphobic person "stupid" by the definition of "twat", Twitter perhaps thinks otherwise. There are several meanings to this word, and there is nothing wrong with calling a bigot stupid.
Twitter really needs to redefine what constitutes "abusive behavior" and what isn't. If being transphobic isn't abusive, I don't know what is.
Although Randi clearly is calling a transphobic person "stupid" by the definition of "twat", Twitter perhaps thinks otherwise. There are several meanings to this word, and there is nothing wrong with calling a bigot stupid.
Twitter really needs to redefine what constitutes "abusive behavior" and what isn't. If being transphobic isn't abusive, I don't know what is.