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Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by aphextron »

>Any account that abuses or threatens others through their profile information, including their username, display name, or profile bio. If an account’s profile information includes a violent threat or multiple slurs, epithets, racist or sexist tropes, incites fear, or reduces someone to less than human, it will be permanently suspended. We plan to develop internal tools to help us identify violating accounts to supplement user reports.

How can they possibly enforce this hypocritical bullshit while our president violates these policies on a daily basis? Ham handed nonsense.

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by sctb »

junkscience2017 wrote: post #9

Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Right-Wing Conduct and Conservative Behavior (blog.twitter.com)

We've already asked you to start following the guidelines by commenting substantively. Could you please do that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by 21 »

jsonne wrote: post #11

I've gone through and reported a number of accounts that seem to violate this policy after the announcement and made note of the usernames and if they were a left wing or right wing organization. I'm curious to see if this will be enforced equally.

Many will report antifa accounts. It will be a shitfest whatever Twitter does: ban - they are pro fascists and can't distinguish between "good" violence versus "bad" violence, no ban - they have double standards for left versus right.

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by raguuu »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #4

"Content that glorifies violence or the perpetrators of a violent act. This includes celebrating any violent act in a manner that may inspire others to replicate it" Does this apply to videos of NFL tackles? Videos of NFL tackles glorify violence and glorify the tackler (the perpetrator of a violent act).

What about K1, MMA? It's a violent sport by definition and you sure get pumped up watching it.

What about rap music and culture in general? So much glorification of violence.

I'm looking forward what they think of communist symbols, or is the rule about symbols purely swastika and symbols the 4chans stupid trolls use.

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by staunch »

There's nothing wrong with Twitter operating a highly moderated platform. Hacker News is a successful example.

In both cases though, it's a huge problem that there aren't alternatives that do off truly uncensored speech. At the very least, there needs to be a force that checks these organizations when they step over the line.

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by mahkoh »

sunsets_44 wrote: post #8

>We consider hateful imagery to be logos, symbols, or images whose purpose is to promote hostility and malice against others based on their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin. Let the endless game of whack-a-mole over what is or isn't a dogwhistle commence, I guess.

Why didn't they include gender identity? Maybe the biggest dog whistle is the blog post itself.

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by prepend »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #22
robbrown451 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure the common definition of "violence" excludes such things.

You mean it's not violence to hit somebody with your body so hard they fall to the ground and can result in bone and ligament injuries, or even brain injuries with permanent neurological issues?

Not if it’s consensual.

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by linkmotif »

21 wrote: post #28
cryptoz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is absolute doublespeak. Twitter's not 'enforcing' anything, and as others have pointed out, they are actually making the situation worse. Now it's clear that even Twitter says if you're rich and famous you can be abusive without the same consequences as someone who is not wealthy. Ridiculous. Nobody has ever held Trump accountable for anything. Hilariously, Twitter holds a lot of power over Trump due to c…

> Nobody has ever held Trump accountable for anything. Hilariously, Twitter holds a lot of power over Trump due to controlling his popular account. They could hold him accountable. They choose not to. Insane. Trump is the elected president of USA, one of the most important country on Earth. The fact that you suggest a private company should police his speak is insane to me.

Why is this insane to you? Where are you from?

Re: Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

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Post by 21 »

21 wrote: post #28
cryptoz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is absolute doublespeak. Twitter's not 'enforcing' anything, and as others have pointed out, they are actually making the situation worse. Now it's clear that even Twitter says if you're rich and famous you can be abusive without the same consequences as someone who is not wealthy. Ridiculous. Nobody has ever held Trump accountable for anything. Hilariously, Twitter holds a lot of power over Trump due to c…

> Nobody has ever held Trump accountable for anything. Hilariously, Twitter holds a lot of power over Trump due to controlling his popular account. They could hold him accountable. They choose not to. Insane. Trump is the elected president of USA, one of the most important country on Earth. The fact that you suggest a private company should police his speak is insane to me.

To those downvoting me, do you think CNN, BBC and all major news outlets should only report what Trump does, but never actually show a video of him speak to deny him a platform?
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