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redqueen

(115,103 posts)
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 09:25 PM Jan 2022

Twitter fails to remove 100 abusive misogynists [View all]

More than a hundred Twitter accounts that had been reported for sending abuse to high-profile women went on to post misogynist content again after the company failed to remove them.

Research has shown that nearly half of the accounts flagged over graphic sexist abuse sent to women including the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and the former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton went on to repeat the offence.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit group, which conducted the research, said that Twitter’s failure to remove such accounts was “enabling and encouraging abusers to spew hate again”.
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After reporting the accounts that posted abuse to these women, the CCDH noted that 253 of these accounts had still not been removed two months later.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cf870e30-73d6-11ec-aacf-0736e08b15cd?


I'm sure no one in this group thinks this only applies to Twitter. Reddit is probably the worst of them all. But in reality, none actually considers words like 'b*tch' and 'c*nt' to be hate speech.

Women are the only oppressed group for which hateful slurs are still widely considered to be socially acceptable. Anyone is free to use them and defend their use.
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I was convinced years ago (when I quit Facebook) that there's no redeeming value in abqtommy Jan 2022 #1
Yes, sir...came to same conclusion about couple months after each launched. Zero redeeming value, Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2022 #5
DU is social media, tho. Drunken Irishman Jan 2022 #6
Exactly, it's all about the moderation. redqueen Jan 2022 #15
Long time, no see, redqueen! Thanks for the op. Nt spooky3 Jan 2022 #2
Nice to see you! redqueen Jan 2022 #16
Julia Ioffe posted just a tiny bit of the kind of filthy garbage she receives bullwinkle428 Jan 2022 #3
Twitter is an abomination. Isn't the evidence overwhelming by now? Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2022 #4
a few months back i reported around ten of these assholes orleans Jan 2022 #7
Porn is a scourge on society. redqueen Jan 2022 #17
Until recently, the Rude Pundit was using the C word wryter2000 Jan 2022 #8
And defending either of those things would be wrong, of course. ShazzieB Jan 2022 #10
Here's the rest of my comment. ShazzieB Jan 2022 #11
Ha. I so wish I could say I was surprised. redqueen Jan 2022 #18
I personally asked the owner to say something about the Cuomo defenders wryter2000 Jan 2022 #24
So nothing much has changed. redqueen Jan 2022 #25
Indeed. ShazzieB Jan 2022 #29
They were vigorously defended wryter2000 Jan 2022 #19
Did you see the ruckus Azalea Banks kicked up last month? redqueen Jan 2022 #22
She made her point wryter2000 Jan 2022 #26
Lame. Not an ally to women. redqueen Jan 2022 #27
Ah, I get it. ShazzieB Jan 2022 #30
"Misogyny is the last acceptable bigotry of the Left" whathehell Jan 2022 #9
I hadn't heard that quote before, but damn, she's right! ShazzieB Jan 2022 #12
Yep, I think she is.. whathehell Jan 2022 #13
Oh yes. ShazzieB Jan 2022 #28
Indeed. Been saying that for years. nt redqueen Jan 2022 #20
Also body size wryter2000 Jan 2022 #21
And age, to be fair. But there's no pandemic of violence against fat people redqueen Jan 2022 #23
WTF Twitter? Blue Owl Jan 2022 #14
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