sarah jeong

You want to keep speech relatively unfettered, but abuse of women, racial minorities, sexual minorities, and other vulnerable groups = real.

There's an urge to create systems to protect "civil rights" in these spaces, but those systems have so far been utterly godawful.

I don't know where things should go from here, but it would be nice to hear what other people think they want.

Another thing that I think is terrible is that sometimes the spam block works better than the regular block. Have they fixed this?

Like occasionally the regular block can be buggy and won't actually block things. I replicated this issue once, anyone else experience it?

The regular block / spam block issue drives me nuts because the idea that spam gets treated more seriously than harassment is just

@sarahjeong Even if it doesn't become one, the servers are private property. Abusers are bothering users; well, why do bars have bouncers?

@nullvoid9 but being unruly doesn't automatically mean abuse or that someone needs to get remove. It's a hard line to draw.

@sarahjeong These things constitute violence. Unruly doesn't begin to describe it.

@nullvoid9 those are absolutely clear. But what about a prolonged campaign of sub-violent stalking? I think that's also terrible

@nullvoid9 but each individual incident isn't considered to rise to the level of actual abuse. Supposedly. But that shit is still scary.

@sarahjeong I think the victim is in a position to know what abuse is.

@nullvoid9 sometimes people like c*thy br*nnan file abuse reports against trans people.