Twitter Adds Tool To Report Tweets To the Police 79
itwbennett writes Twitter is ramping up its efforts to combat harassment with a tool to help users report abusive content to law enforcement. The reports would include the flagged tweet and its URL, the time at which it was sent, the user name and account URL of the person who posted it, as well as a link to Twitter's guidelines on how authorities can request non-public user account information from Twitter. It is left up to the user to forward the report to law enforcement and left up to law enforcement to request the user information from Twitter.
OMG that slut totally insulted me! (Score:3, Funny)
Click report to police.
Bitch!
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Click report to police.
As described in TFA: The user can only opt to also receive an email containing information about the reported tweet.
It's up to that user to forward the email to the police.
From TFS: (for those with even shorter attention spans):
It is left up to the user to forward the report to law enforcement ...
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Considering that in the instances of 'high profile' individuals, for whom their treats actually got police attention, and when then deemed 'non credible'; there is going to be a vanishingly small percentage of times in which any action is taken by law enforcement for which the reporter will be satisfied.
What is actually a problem condition is that there is a low SNR and something actually happens to someone, and then police hyper react.
We can only hope that well-trained (larger?) law enforcement agencies kn
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The interesting thing about feminists: They support every disadvantage. "Hey, you can't say 'i heard that ...', because deaf people cannot her. Ableism!". But as soon as they need to cope with critizism, they use disadvantages as insult "He's got a small dick". Not only it's an insult, assuming stuff they know its propably untrue, but its even something which would be some of their many *isms.
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Anyway, contrary to the Republic of Mah Feelz, butthurt isn't legal grounds (for any value of 'Not Sweden'), so unless it's an actual death threat, this is pointless pandering.
Well, no, Airstrip One has fun views of terrorism, so people tweeting about a party being a blast might get swept up too.
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They're ruining the world. Fuck them all. The world should be offensive and rude and nasty.
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I didn't know what SJW meant so I found this urbandictionary definition to be helpful:
SJW
Social Justice Warrior. A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation. A social justice warrior, or SJW, does not necessarily strongly believe all that they say, or even care about the groups they are fighting on behalf of. They typically repeat points from whoever is the most popular blogger or commenter of the moment, hoping that they will "get SJ points" and become popular in return. They are very sure to adopt stances that are "correct" in their social circle.
The SJW's favorite activity of all is to dogpile. Their favorite websites to frequent are Livejournal and Tumblr. They do not have relevant favorite real-world places, because SJWs are primarily civil rights activists only online.
#1:
A social justice warrior reads an essay about a form of internal misogyny where women and girls insult stereotypical feminine activities and characteristics in order to boost themselves over other women.
The SJW absorbs this and later complains in response to a Huffington Post article about a 10-year-old feminist's letter, because the 10-year-old called the color pink "prissy".
#2:
Commnter: "I don't like getting manicures. It's too prissy."
SJW: "Oh my god, how fucking dare you use that word, you disgusting sexist piece of shit!"
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What's wrong with supporting a video game created by a pedophile / jew / pro-skub / nigger / fag / Stalin / congressman / horse ?
I expect an answer.
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The educational establishment had a similar debate a few years back over a website called Sparklebox - a free resource site for primary school teachers. Posters, worksheets, that sort of thing. Very popular - teachers love resources as they save a lot of time. Until it emerged that the site's founder had been convicted for possession of child abuse imagery. There was a strong backlash - many teachers refused to use the site after that, posters were taken down from walls, and some local authorities even bloc
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what does it matter?
1) pedophile is no crime, its a sexual preference and maybe an mental illness
2) If somebody acts illegal, it's the job of the police to act on it. If it's illegal, they will do something, if he did nothing wrong, there is nothing to do. So you do not need to care about supporting or not, it's just not your thing to judge.
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pro murdering files. Ever ran fsck.reiserfs?
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mikeeusa is not anti-SJW, he is anti-women to the same extent that SJWs are anti-white and anti-men. [alientrap.org]
That said, there is a question of whether his personal views should have been an issue in discussing the release of a game. Code is neutral.
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The person who owns the site has full editorial control. Start your own site to talk about Mikee if it's such a big deal.
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Alarmists quick with the trigger finger (Score:1)
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So are a lot of things the police are too busy to even show up for. Unless there is a dead body, or some politically correct class is involved, don't even bother calling, as nothing will ever happen.
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Sure. About as much accountability as there is for the people who create applications that allow morons to send unmoderated messages that others wind up finding objectionable, insulting, harrassing, etc. (IANAL but, IMHO, it doesn't much matter that posts can be deleted. Once sent the damage to the target has been done.) At least Twitter posts are identified and can be traced to an individual. Unlike Yik Yak where one can be harrassed anonymously
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Law enforcement already trawl through tweets so this just narrows the funnel for them.
Twitter Anti-Cyberbully CYA Technique #43 (Score:5, Insightful)
But what can police do? Say you live in Bumfuck Nowhere, USA and you bring this report to your local Sheriff saying InternetUser1234 in SomewhereFarAway, USA is accosting me online. Then what? They get out the bloodhounds to "trace the IP"?
Most PDs don't have units or personnel equipped or trained to utilize these reports.
Why doesn't twitter just provide a button that a user can push when they feel relentlessly accosted by internet trolls. It would delete the user's account.
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Instead of an account being deleted due to the tweet recipient pushing a button, I'd vote for having that button send a message to a dedicated team at Twitter who would decide whether a user account should be terminated. Allowing `end users' to cause accounts to be deleted could be -- and almost certainly would be -- badly abused.
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Woosh. The button would delete the account of the person clicking it.
The only thing you need to do in response to trolls is ignore them.
If you're getting a lot of shit from a lot of "trolls" you may want to stop and think about what you're doing that makes you such a big fat target - odds are you're the troll.
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Re:Twitter Anti-Cyberbully CYA Technique #43 (Score:4, Insightful)
The recent publishing of 4chan IRC chat logs show the trolls discussing the use of these disposable sock puppet accounts extensively.It's how they made GamerGate seem like a huge deal when it actually a very small group.
The most recent story of 4chan IRC logs I found was almost half a year ago. Meanwhile, GamerGate is still around to this day, long after the mainstream media (who is more responsible for making GamerGate a big deal, giving the trolls the attention they wanted) had their fun with it.
Some people argue that Sarkeesian is a troll
Many more people argue that GamerGate is just a movement manufactured by a small number of trolls, such as what you just did. Alas, when one tries to defend against that, "listen and believe" quickly becomes "attack and destroy" and "hear and ignore" [metaleater.com] if a woman, a woman who has been writing about gaming long before Anita came along mind you, didn't agree with the narrative pushed by Anita and the anti-GGers
If you listen to hear videos she has carefully constructed, detailed arguments.
And if you listened to others, they have constructed detailed rebuttals and criticisms.
You might not like them, but simply disagreeing does not make someone a troll.
Indeed, people should listen to GamerGate instead of casting them all as harassers and trolls.
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You might not like them, but simply disagreeing does not make someone a troll.
It's a shame the other side isn't afforded the same luxury.
Sending death and rape threats from sock puppet accounts makes them a troll.
No, apparently, just disagreeing makes you a troll, a harasser, a misogynist, etc. No matter how well-reasoned and civil your argument is.
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Too easily abused by popularity.
I tweet "Justin Bieber's unphotoshopped pics leaked. Does his crotch bulge look smaller? #Bieber #Photosock." Half an hour later the tweet gets picked up and retweeted in anger by some popular fan. Half an hour after that, fifteen thousand angry beliebers flood Twitter with complaints about inappropriate content and my account gets taken down.
It's already an issue on youtube for political and religious videos: People making them quite often have to create new accounts after a
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OTOH, swating means, you tell the police something untrue. This function means, you tell the police where to look, IF it is a problem.
But to WHICH police? (Score:2)
And what do you do to prevent people from trolling this system? It seems that someone could really waste a lot of time and resources at large police departments by flagging every tweet with their names or abbreviations in it.
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This seems rather hopeless. Does it go to the police with jurisdiction closest to the IP address the offending tweet came from? Or to the police closest to where the alleged victim resides?
From TFS: " It is left up to the user to forward the report to law enforcement ..."
The user can only opt to *also* receive an email containing information about the reported tweet.
Wtf? Where?! (Score:5, Informative)
From article.
> Women have been ruthlessly targeted on Twitter and on other sites like Reddit and 4chan, due to sexism in the video game industry, sometimes referred to as “Gamergate.”
This makes no freaking sense, How the the hell is the video game industry, reddit and gamergate followers ruthless attacking women on twitter?
Other than the 3 women who are anti-gamergate, where are the actual victims? Where are this masses of criminals doing this? I keep reading about it, all these evil people doing it, but nobody is ever arrested... Smells like propeganda for some special interests, like some group looking for funding for their businesses... Look war on women going on over here! But please dont investigate, just take our word.
So, this Zack Miners who wrote the story for IDG, the same IDG that pushes the war on women narative on all its publications without backing up it up with any facts. IDG Tech news = gossip, rumors and attack on evil gamers attacking women. Sheesh.
They Don't Have Evidence (Score:5, Informative)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] That is direct video evidence of an anti-GG Sarkeesian supporter threatening physical violence against a pro-GG guy. Everyone knows that if the other side had evidence one tenth as damning, we would never hear the end of it, ever, across dozens (probably hundreds) of sites.
So it's the same old song for Slashdot's abysmal Gamergate coverage:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... [slashdot.org]
Try this: link to the /. article that covers the Gamergate scandal without screaming about misogyny and harassment. You can't. And that's because overall, the Slashdot readership doesn't buy the "misogyny and harassment" narrative for one second. The editors quickly discovered that the discussion thread for any article that straightforwardly mentions Gamergate--even if it's one-sided [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org]--couldn't be trusted to go the way the editors demand.
For a while, they found limited success by posting articles with the template "misogyny, harassment, threats, misogyny, harassment, threats . . . oh btw Gamergate" (i.e. a br But even that's not working anymore, and the editors' credibility on this issue is shot. Permanently.
Slashdot wants desperately to cover Gamergate, but doesn't want to be honest and up front that it's doing so, and especially that it's taking the pro-corruption side. In the early weeks, they even tried to participate in the blackout, which led to almost every article about gaming at all becoming a Gamergate thread. The editors/ownership knew damn well what they were doing, and it's silly to blame anyone else for the consequences of refusing to cover Gamergate, except with propaganda.
This is one of those articles that follows that tired template. Make no mistake, it's about Gamergate and the editors damn well know it; they're just too scared to say so.
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Bum 1: The journalists are running scared...
Bum 2: The people know they are corrupt.
Courtesy of Deus Ex.
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Well, you need an actual harassment to press the police button in first place.
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There is an on-going FBI investigation, but it takes time. There is a lot of evidence to go through. For example, after Quinn posted IRC logs showing the GamerGaters organizing their trolling and talking openly about it, GG published the full IRC logs: http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6... [puu.sh] (warning: very large text file)
It's going to take a long, long time to go through those logs, build up profiles of those users and gather together the relevant sections where they post incriminating material, then tie that up
So would using this tool (Score:2)
change a tweet into an oink?
Learning (Score:1)
Americans have learned to emulate Nazi Germany. Everyone wants to be a member of the Stasi.