Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option 101
AmiMoJo writes Twitter announced that its abuse-report system, which was recently refined to simplify and shorten the reporting process, has now expanded to allow users to report content such as self-harm incidents and "the sharing of private and confidential information" (aka doxing). The announcement, posted by Twitter Vice President of User Services Tina Bhatnagar, explained that December's report-process update was met with a "tripling" of the site's abuse support staff, which has led to a quintupling of abuse report processing. Chat logs recently revealed how Twitter is used by small groups to create vast harassment campaigns, thanks to sock puppet account and relative anonymity.
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We're much smarter than Blacks, but not as smart as Asians
I actually find this troll amusing, and can't tell if the poster was trying to parody Brave New World or not.
Report Bots (Score:3)
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I hope you mean, malicious bots. Some markov chain generating bots on Twitter are great. So are some other automated processes like the who's editing Wikipedia from congress bot.
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This is an excellent analogy because movies today are still limited to 15 seconds of runtime.
[[Trailers Always Spoil]] (Score:2)
Anonymous Coward attempted sarcasm:
This is an excellent analogy because movies today are still limited to 15 seconds of runtime.
They are when the trailer shows the good parts [orain.org].
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Partial list of twitter users [slashdot.org]: Erris, MacTrope, gnutoo, inTheLoo, willeyhill, westbake, odder, ibane, DeadZero, freenix, myCopyWrong, right handed, GNUChop
Re:Twitter is a powerful tool (Score:4, Insightful)
Twitter is more annoying than anything. I don't care what names celebrities are calling each other and I don't want to see inane comments while trying to watch a tv show.
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I'm fine with twitter being a self-contained thing. "News" "reports" that consist of screen after screen of embedded tweets with "analysis" along the lines of "he said.... she said.... OH NO THEY DIDN'T!" is a waste of clock cycles, electricity, photons, and calories.
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Or you could just use RSS and not have to sign up for anything, and be watched and mined by the central Twitter overlord. Yes, RSS even works with Twitter, (and we are on slashdot).
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Soshill Justus (Score:3, Interesting)
Chat logs recently revealed how Twitter is used by small groups to create vast harassment campaigns
Yeah, it's funny how a small group of people can create a vast harassment campaign on an entire customer base and perpetuate it through shitty sites with no integrity.
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This.
Even though the movement started on 4chan (I literally watched it unfold there and Twitter), the entire thing ACTUALLY started when Zoe and her little funny friends DDoD'd a charity fundraiser to get more females in to game dev. (and she even posted about it on her twitter before mass-deleting them all)
Hypocrites, all of them.
Now any time it becomes not about her, she bitches and moans until it is about her again.
You can even see in her interviews what a lying prick she is.
Morally corrupt or not, gamer
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Go have a read of the chat logs. Anonymous kindly published the entire, uncensored log just in case you think that the quotes are cherry picked.
It's clear what GamerGate was now. A small group of people on 4chan, and later 8chan, organising a campaign based on hatred of women. They are quite explicit about that when they think no-one else is listening. All the things they accuse their victims of are the things they themselves were doing. False flag operations, doxxing, sock puppet accounts, attempts to mani
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"Cult"? You sound like the CEO of Nestle when he talks about people who don't want water delivery infrastructure privatised as "extremists".
GameGate was a bunch of young male losers letting out their frustrations on women. This conclusion is based on the evidence. There are times when self-described feminists cry wolf, but this wasn't one of them. You tried and you lost. Failure is making the same mistake twice. You have the choice not to fail.
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And I'm just sitting here, drinking water delivered via privatized infrastructure.
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I figured as much (Score:2, Flamebait)
Video games were the last world that these basement dwellers could rule. Then girls started playing and upsetting their little kingdoms.
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But enough about Randi Harper.
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And Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Leigh Megaphone-Alexander, Ben Kuchera, Full McIntosh, etc. etc... they're all guilty of it.
No way (Score:1)
I'm not wasting mod points on this shit.
Dox the Doxxers (Score:1)
What I think would be great to see, is if someone is found guilty of doxxing by Twitter to have the Twitter handle and IP addresses they have posted from put out in public (and the original doxxing removed of course), along with all other twitter handles that have posted from that IP.
Perhaps two wrongs don't make a right, but at least it makes things even.
Deterrence, not victory (Score:1)
You'd only win anything
It's not about winning anything though - it's about enough reason NOT to dox that we'd see a lot less of it.
There is no real "victory" on the internet. Just waves of nearly-pointless bickering. So the best we can do is limit collateral damage.
It still helps (Score:1)
And it would be trivial to keep any "clean" account(s) they have on a separate IP,
Trivial, perhaps... but over time it's easy to slip and use an IP that's more traceable to you, which is why I said to publish all of the IP's that handle has posted from.
I'd bet that many trolls are not that sophisticated though, or figure it would not be worth that level of effort. At the very least you'd weed out the casual trolls.
Just because a layer of security is not perfect, does not mean it's not worth adding.
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And it would be trivial to keep any "clean" account(s) they have on a separate IP,
Trivial, perhaps... but over time it's easy to slip and use an IP that's more traceable to you, which is why I said to publish all of the IP's that handle has posted from.
I can see some appeal to that, but surely any sane leaker will post using a restaurant's free wifi or similar - meaning their doxing gets associated with any other innocent user who happens to have posted updates from that restaurant, with no apparent link to their own isolated accounts?
Personally, I'd probably use the free wifi at the railway station on my daily commute - indeed, I do use it most days, for innocent purposes - or if I wanted to do something that might be traced, ride an hour or so on one of
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CGNAT (Score:2)
along with all other twitter handles that have posted from that IP
With all the carrier grade network address translation (CGNAT) going on in mobile networks and in developing countries' wired networks, I imagine that matching people by IPv4 address would need a team of humans to weed out all the false positives.
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So when you dox people it is totally for a legit and righteous reasons? And IPs are now directly tied to one individual? Can't have multiple people using the same IP- never happens.
You are truly doing God's work.
Re:Not Nearly Enough (Score:5, Insightful)
Dear AC,
Thank you for posting your concerns.
But perhaps you'd like to tell us what a "harasser" is, because at the moment this appears to be "anyone who doesn't agree with me, mocks me or quotes facts which contradict my beliefs"
Yours sincerely
The rest of the Internet
This is meaning of harassment online. (Score:2)
But perhaps you'd like to tell us what a "harasser" is, because at the moment this appears to be "anyone who doesn't agree with me, mocks me or quotes facts which contradict my beliefs"
Yours sincerely
The rest of the Internet
The geek --- whose rules of play are under fire these days --- can be rather too quick to claim that he speaks for the Internet as a whole.
Pew Research asked respondents about six different forms of online harassment. Those who witnessed harassment said they had seen at least one of the following occur to others online:
60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names
53% had seen efforts to purposefully embarrass someone
25% had seen someone being physically threatened
24% witnessed someone being harassed for a sustained period of time
19% said they witnessed someone being sexually harassed
18% said they had seen someone be stalked
Those who have personally experienced online harassment said they were the target of at least one of the following online:
27% of internet users have been called offensive names
22% have had someone try to purposefully embarrass them
8% have been physically threatened
8% have been stalked
7% have been harassed for a sustained period
6% have been sexually harassed
In broad trends, the data show that men are more likely to experience name-calling and embarrassment, while young women are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment and stalking. Social media is the most common scene of both types of harassment, although men highlight online gaming and comments sections as other spaces they typically encounter harassment.
Young women, those 18-24, experience certain severe types of harassment at disproportionately high levels: 26% of these young women have been stalked online, and 25% were the target of online sexual harassment.
While most online environments were viewed as equally welcoming to both genders, the starkest results were for online gaming. Some 44% of respondents felt the platform was more welcoming toward men.
Online Harassment [pewinternet.org] [October 22, 2014]
The full report can be downloaded as a free PDF from this page.
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The statistics don't agree with what you're claiming. Both men and women receive about just as much harassment on social media. The claims American journalists did few months ago were not based on reality.
Please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
What the heck are they doing??!? (Score:2)
What's Twitter? (Score:1)
Or Facebook?
I will just climb back on my Brontosaurus and go back to my cave now (and not be harassed)
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Twitter was a notorious Slashdot sockpuppetry ring [slashdot.org]. It has since become a microblog service.
-- @PinoBatch
Ars Technica and #Gamergate (Score:2, Insightful)
First I want to say that Twitter has done a good job improving its reporting system. So thanks for them for that.
But I'd like to point out that the articles produced by Ars Technica cannot be trusted as a source in this matter. For example this Slashdot news item links to an article full of errors about the reasons Twitter has done this. The "vast harassment campaign" they're talking about is #Gamergate which is a reaction on behalf of gamers (aka. people who play computer and video games regularly) to a co
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The problem with your claims are that they are all based on extremely shakey evidence. Blog posts referencing other blog posts referencing twitter. Youtube videos full of memes and ranting.
Compare that to the IRC logs. Direct evidence from the source. The same logs captured and released by multiple people on both sides of the argument, so their authenticity can't be denied. The content is damming. In fact there is extensive discussion of doing exactly what you have just done. Try to control the narrative. S
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Your evidence is totally shakey. Check out my irrefutable IRC text logs...
If you really don't want to take other people's evidence seriously why don't you explain why they shouldn't be taken at face value? (Other than simply claiming it is shakey that is.) Because anybody can just say the same thing to you. Doesn't really get anyone anywhere now does it? It really doesn't matter if you can find some people behaving badly (a totally asinine way to try to discredit somebody). The quality of that evidence is irrelevant. Some of those journalists have been behaving poorly and have be
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To be absolutely clear, the YouTube videos and blog posts are the very things that the IRC logs refer to . Create a narrative through huge numbers of sock puppet accounts on Twitter, with sock puppet blogs and YouTube videos referencing them. Eventually other people get sucked in and start referencing them too. It looks like there is a real grass roots movement, when in fact it is a small number of people and some idiots who didn't research what they are retweeting.
It's right out of the leaked GCHQ playbook
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Except simply saying everyone is a sock-puppet account doesn't make it so.
I could just as easily say you are a sock-puppet trying to create a grass roots movement to discredit anybody criticizing the involved blogs/websites/publications/whatever. But that would be an asinine statement. You are merely trying to attack the messenger to discredit the message.
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Haha since when does Twitter=Internet?
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Privacy is becoming a complicated mess (Score:2)
I welcome these steps because it is shocking how little people realise that they have shared unknowingly. Or worse that others have shared on their behalf.
How often do you encounter family or friends or colleagues who proudly boast that they don't have a social media account therefore they have nothing to fear. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Not having an account just makes you ignorant to what has been posted about you or your children or other privacy concerns.
With the advent of smartphones, public cloud storage a