Twitter fails to remove 100 abusive misogynists

[redqueen]

More than a hundred Twitter accounts that had been reported for sending abuse to high-profile women went on to post misogynist content again after the company failed to remove them.

Research has shown that nearly half of the accounts flagged over graphic sexist abuse sent to women including the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and the former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton went on to repeat the offence.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit group, which conducted the research, said that Twitter’s failure to remove such accounts was “enabling and encouraging abusers to spew hate again”.
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After reporting the accounts that posted abuse to these women, the CCDH noted that 253 of these accounts had still not been removed two months later.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cf870e30-73d6-11ec-aacf-0736e08b15cd?

I'm sure no one in this group thinks this only applies to Twitter. Reddit is probably the worst of them all. But in reality, none actually considers words like 'b*tch' and 'c*nt' to be hate speech.

Women are the only oppressed group for which hateful slurs are still widely considered to be socially acceptable. Anyone is free to use them and defend their use.

[abqtommy]

1. I was convinced years ago (when I quit Facebook) that there's no redeeming value in

any "social media". It would please me greatly if they'd all just go away. I don't include DU in that category, of course.

And no, I don't find ANY abuse to be "socially acceptable". I definitely support your
original op here.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Yes, sir...came to same conclusion about couple months after each launched. Zero redeeming value,

whatever value there is is so minimal compared to the maximal filth, it’s not redeeming at all.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. DU is social media, tho.

Whether you want to include it or not - it fits the basic definition of social media.

It's a heavily moderated, though for likeminded content. A place like Twitter is not heavily moderated (for good or bad).

[redqueen]

15. Exactly, it's all about the moderation.

Large social media companies don't want to pay to train, support, and retain enough people to do the job.

[spooky3]

2. Long time, no see, redqueen! Thanks for the op. Nt

[redqueen]

16. Nice to see you!

Every once and a while I get an urge to stop by - mostly still feel too stifled by the rules here to stick around.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Julia Ioffe posted just a tiny bit of the kind of filthy garbage she receives

on Twitter, along with the comment that she'd prefer to get the kind of hate mail that her male colleagues are typically subject to.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Twitter is an abomination. Isn't the evidence overwhelming by now?

Nobel Laureates getting hate speech….for??

Being too intelligent I guess? Being too intelligent and being a woman?

Yes, ofc. But also because The Hate is for any woman daring to be recognized as being more intelligent than the men in their basements who have nothing better to do than to prove their subfloor intelligence on the Twitter machine that permits them the delusion of these ridiculous texts…not even real writing… being meaningful.

Thanks for nothing Twitter.

[orleans]

7. a few months back i reported around ten of these assholes

a few also had porn videos on their twitter feed

twitter banished a couple, but most were left to continue doing what they were doing (including with their porn crap) (ugh!)

[redqueen]

17. Porn is a scourge on society.

It is so widespread and has poisoned so many minds that there are boards filled with young men talking about how damaging and addictive it is, and many young women are leaning towards radical feminism as a reaction to their experiences with porn sick men, and I am so, so very happy about that. So, bright side

[wryter2000]

8. Until recently, the Rude Pundit was using the C word

And people were posting his columns here. And people were defending Andrew Cuomo here, even suggesting that his accusers were part of a plot.

[ShazzieB]

10. And defending either of those things would be wrong, of course.

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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, though. Does someone defending Cuomo and/or using the c word here somehow have some bearing on whether Twitter should get a pass for allowing misogynist content to stand? Because I certainly don't think so.

I will continue this comment in a separate reply, for reasons that will be explained. Watch this space.

[ShazzieB]

11. Here's the rest of my comment.

I would personally be very pleased to see misogynistic slurs like the c word and the one that is used by dog breeders to refer to the female of that species be banned at DU as I don't think they serve any legitimate purpose here.

I'm putting this in a separate comment, because I voiced a similar entiment here once before and got "rewarded" by having my post hidden for "interfering with forum moderation." If someone alerts on this comment and it gets hidden, hopefully the previous one will be allowed to remain.

[redqueen]

18. Ha. I so wish I could say I was surprised.

Misogyny is everywhere.

[wryter2000]

24. I personally asked the owner to say something about the Cuomo defenders

And get no reply

[redqueen]

25. So nothing much has changed.

Went through this multiple times back in the day. Until society changes, it won't change. Most people on the left are ok with hate speech against women.

Have said it before but misogyny is just as commonplace on the left as the right, the only difference is where they want to place the boot on our necks. The right considers us private property, the left, public. The right wants to control our bodies with removal of bodily autonomy. The left wants to maintain the social acceptance of sexual objectification and commodification of female bodies (I say 'female' and not 'women's' because it's also targeted at preteens - e.g. 'barely legal' porn)

[ShazzieB]

29. Indeed.

I didn't realize it till I started writing the above post, but I'm still salty af about that hide. I had to word that comment very carefully because the saltiness kept trying to come through.

[wryter2000]

19. They were vigorously defended

And I put this here so the defenders see their words were no better than the misogyny on Twitter.

[redqueen]

22. Did you see the ruckus Azalea Banks kicked up last month?

I missed it at the time. She apparently uses a homophobic slur freely, and when confronted about it she said something along the lines of as long as y'all are using the B word like you own it I will continue and not care about anyone complaining. She's a weird one but she has a good point here.

[wryter2000]

26. She made her point

I wouldn't have done it that way. But I did point out the similarity to the N word. People still fought me. One excused the use of the C word by pointing out the rude one is a good writer. I still half tune him out when he's on Stephanie Miller's show.

He has stopped using it, though.

[redqueen]

27. Lame. Not an ally to women.

If these people actually cared about the welfare of women, they'd come correct and speak openly and loudly.

They grudgingly give up this stuff. Which says all we need to know

[ShazzieB]

30. Ah, I get it.

Thanks for clarifying.

[whathehell]

9. "Misogyny is the last acceptable bigotry of the Left"

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according to Katha Politt, feminist writer and contributor to The Nation.

[ShazzieB]

12. I hadn't heard that quote before, but damn, she's right!

[whathehell]

13. Yep, I think she is..

You can see it here on DU, at times.

[ShazzieB]

28. Oh yes.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

[redqueen]

20. Indeed. Been saying that for years. nt

[wryter2000]

21. Also body size

But I totally agree.

[redqueen]

23. And age, to be fair. But there's no pandemic of violence against fat people

or old people, so

[Blue Owl]

14. WTF Twitter?