Twitter harassment is so legendary that Amnesty International released a report about it! https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/03/online-violence-against-women-chapter-1/ …
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Case in point: Cesar Sayoc, the mail bomber, harassed people on Twitter and got away with it. The people who run Twitter didn't even see fit to delete his threatening tweets! https://twitter.com/RochelleRitchie/status/1055867631461416962 …
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Why don't the people in charge of Twitter do more to stop negativity and harassment? Because they're more worried about "echo chambers". They see negativity and (some) harassment as a valuable way to pierce ideological echo chambers and present alternative viewpoints.pic.twitter.com/bptAhzv4qA
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Those stagnant user numbers might be a big reason the company's stock is still below its IPO price:pic.twitter.com/0V6SzhC0Na
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Besides simply banning a lot more harassers and removing more tweets, what can Twitter do to reduce negativity and harassment? I have some ideas. Idea #1: If I block a user, his tweets should no longer be visible to third parties in the replies to my tweets.pic.twitter.com/1Hl4tfz1KK
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As things stand, if a Nazi responds to a tweet of mine with "Into the ovens, kike!!", even if I block him, everyone else who reads the thread will still see "Into the ovens, kike!!" And everyone who retweets my original tweet is therefore forcing more people to see that tweet.
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Second, users should be able to lock individual tweets. This will instantly kill the "dogpile" problem.pic.twitter.com/cEjo1ZlA7C
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Third, Twitter should have a built-in function for seeing everyone who has quote-tweeted you. This will prevent the "screamer" tactic that Nazis use to direct their mobs of harassers.pic.twitter.com/QHRr4g4QOR
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Twitter isn't just hurting people's emotional and mental health - it's hurting America, and our whole society. Time to stop worrying about "echo chambers" and start cleaning up the hate. (end)pic.twitter.com/It2WOgZRdU
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Won't the combination of locking and blocked responses being invisible have the consequences of making disinfo campaigns even harder to counter? Might still be worth it, but ...?
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