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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 May 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted New York Daily News

      People complain about the social media “mob” (and there are issues) but the core problem here is that even after such videos, people like her aren’t ever prosecuted. It’s clearly a false and malicious report, a crime, and it seems like she’s trying to get him “killed-by-cop.”https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1265090833138810881 …

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      New York Daily NewsVerified account @NYDailyNews
      "I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life." A woman called the cops on man in Central Park after he asked her to leash her dog. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-viral-video-central-park-20200526-o7djnjr3fjcsfl2augko6mv7oi-story.html …
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    2. hal  👾‏Verified account @halhod 26 May 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @mathewi

      zeynep, what can police do about problems of scale here though? there just be zillions of crimes of this nature documented online every day. makes me think that as with governance, policing needs to move into online/digital spaces too, and adopt those space’s tools

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 May 2020
      Replying to @halhod @mathewi

      A few prosecutions with real penalties for false reports might be a good deterrence. Apparently, police showed up thinking they were responding to an assault. The guy is a birder, maybe binoculars in hand—looks enough like a gun. Next thing you know, the guy's a hashtag.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 May 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @halhod @mathewi

      It's a form of swatting via weaponized racism. And police didn't used to take those seriously and swatter kept doing it and people died. False report is a felony with jail time. Can't quickly fix racism but can create deterrence to terrible behavior like this. That's all I got.

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    5. hal  👾‏Verified account @halhod 26 May 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @mathewi

      yup, i agree w the take. wondering what operations changes, if any, police need to make in order to carry out a good number of prosecutions in this mould. i guess the truth is likely just a lack of will

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 May 2020
      Replying to @halhod @mathewi

      Yeah, the law they need is already on the books. They go after Erik Garner for selling single cigarettes but these false reports never get prosecuted. If a few people did time, I think it would help.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7. hal  👾‏Verified account @halhod 26 May 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @mathewi

      this also addresses the “did she deserve to loose her job to the mob” complaint. if she went to jail, she’d lose her job anyway presumably

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 May 2020
      Replying to @halhod @mathewi

      Yes, a real prosecution also addresses "what happened before." Please investigate! Police to take these threats to black people's lives seriously and for the district attorneys to bring a few cases... I don't like it at all when someone makes a bad joke and gets slammed online.

      6:15 AM - 26 May 2020
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 May 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @halhod @mathewi

          Or some high school student says something terrible! It should not become a national subject, following an 18 year old for the rest of their lives on Google. People grew out of their teen sometimes terrible selves and their backgrounds. This? Attempted swatting? Not so minor.

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        3. hal  👾‏Verified account @halhod 26 May 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @mathewi

          i think this issue emerges across digital spaces. they are not yet fully bound to the governance and enforcement systems in the offline world. at the moment they are running on their own emergent, chaotic rules, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill

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