Twitter Announces Trust and Safety Council To Tackle Trolls

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Twitter Announces Trust and Safety Council To Tackle Trolls

engine

2:55 pm on Feb 9, 2016 (gmt 0)

Twitter has formed a Trust & Safety Council aimed at enabling free speech and tackling trolls that want to stifle discussion.

We have more than 40 organizations and experts from 13 regions joining as inaugural members of the Council. We are thrilled to work with these organizations to ensure that we are enabling everyone, everywhere to express themselves with confidence on Twitter. Twitter Announces Twitter Trust and Safety Council To Tackle Trolls [blog.twitter.com]

JS_Harris

5:33 am on Feb 11, 2016 (gmt 0)

... and who did they pick to oversee this new advisory board? Anita Sarkeesian ?!

Hugely pro-feminist she is BRUTAL in censoring free speech on her own blog(Feminist Frequency). Just saying anything that can even remotely be considered criticism of feminism is deserving of being deleted and the person banned according to her own practices.

Twitter is set to see it's first user decline ever, the leadership has abandoned ship, the stock is dropping like an anchor and they choose HER to be the voice of balancing free speech vs hate speech? Wow... that's not going to end well for Twitter. I mean, I wish her the best but who she is may not be compatible, on any level, with the userbase of twitter.

I guess we're going to find out. NOT ONE of the groups is pro free speech, ALL made their name by pushing against it for their own reasons and didn't Reddit and 4chan start losing members when they censored free speech? Talking about world news is going to get touchy too, saying anything negative about Islam(example) is now against their guidelines which is problematic when Islamist radicals keep setting off bombs that make people around the world extremely mad. It seems that being a professional "offended" person is a thing in 2016.

Without people Twitter is nothing, I hope this new censorship group treads lightly.

Rumbas

10:28 am on Feb 12, 2016 (gmt 0)

>Without people Twitter is nothing, I hope this new censorship group treads lightly.

Well put. Interesting how that pans out in the future.

JS_Harris

6:41 pm on Feb 13, 2016 (gmt 0)

There's a video circulating on youtube of a campus police officer at a major US college attempting to fine someone for "offending" because that person said a word that offended someone and they called for help. The officer clearly thinks that offending someone with words is a criminal act. This next generation seems to have some things to work out if it's gotten that bad in graduating classes.

I agree it would be a perfect world if nobody ever got offended BUT who would want to live in a world where you can't express yourself in case someone might not like it?