harassment
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With Trump in Hospital With Covid-19, Twitter Suddenly Decides That Wishing for Someone’s Death Is a No-No
Wishing someone else ill will or death is a disgusting act that makes the world worse. This lesson of common decency seems like it would be obvious to everyone, especially a social media network with hundreds of millions of users. Twitter, for its part, recently responded swiftly to the news of U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
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Twitter’s Struggles With Moderating Online Abuse Continue
Twitter has thrown a lot at its rampant harassment problem over the years, from slapping on more abuse filters to purchasing an entire company to help them wrangle its online hellscape. But apparently abiding by that old adage “see something, say something” is one step too far for good ol’ Jack.
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YouTube Clarifies Harassment Policy By Flailing Around Like A Big, Dumb Noodle
Less than 24 hours after determining that far-right buffoon Steven Crowder’s anti-gay harassment of Vox journalist Carlos Maza was basically fine, YouTube has reversed course—or, more accurately, has continued to fishtail around the road. This afternoon, the platform announced that it has now decided to demonetize Crowder’s channel, but for larger, vaguer reasons.
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Rotten Tomatoes Is Changing Its Audience Rating System Because Of Trolls
Even though the general public has not yet had the chance to see Captain Marvel, that didn’t stop trolls from preemptively trashing the film on Rotten Tomatoes in what can only be described as an sexism-fuelled attempt at convincing people that a movie about a female superhero couldn’t possibly be good. Now, the ratings site…