h/t Colonialista – “Oh, they’re gonna hate their new rules”
Twitter acknowledged on Friday that a new policy it unveiled this week to protect users from harassment is being abused by malicious actors — days after journalists, left-wing activists and self-described “sedition hunters” reported their accounts had been locked for sharing publicly available images of anti-maskers, anti-vaccine protesters and suspected Capitol insurrectionists.
The acknowledgment highlights how Twitter has been caught flat-footed by what it described in a statement as “a significant amount of coordinated and malicious” activity that led to “several errors” in Twitter’s enforcement.
“We’ve corrected those errors and are undergoing an internal review to make certain that this policy is used as intended — to curb the misuse of media to harass or intimidate private individuals,” Twitter said.Unveiled on Tuesday, Twitter’s new policy prohibits the sharing of images of private individuals without those people’s consent. The rule was created, Twitter initially said, in a bid to prevent its platform from being abused to harass and intimidate people, particularly women, activists and minorities.
But right-wing groups and anti-mask activists have quickly determined that the new Twitter policy offers an opportunity to strike back at those who might draw attention to their real-world identities. And in a matter of days, they established a coordinated campaign to flood Twitter with complaints that left-wing activists, Jan. 6 investigators and journalists covering rallies have published their faces without consent in violation of the new rule.
In January, Samuel Braslow was covering an anti-mask protest at a Los Angeles mall for the Beverly Hills Courier, the 56-year-old local newspaper where he is a staff reporter. During the public event, Braslow tweeted a video of a standoff between anti-maskers and a mall official — a common practice in the age of digital reporting.
Braslow couldn’t have known that, this week, someone would file a report about that same photojournalism and cause Twitter to lock down his account. The complaint led to Braslow being unable to tweet until he either successfully appealed the report or deleted the old tweets. He was stuck.
Good work, lads.
Tell me why we need Twitter?
How else are you going to demonstrate your virtue to the world?
Perform some kind act of community service? LOL
Write out a serious, well-argued, logical political opinion? LOL
Back up your words with meaningful, constructive action? LOL
Twitter initially said, in a bid to prevent its platform from being abused to harass and intimidate people, particularly women, activists and minorities.
But right-wing groups and anti-mask activists have quickly determined…
LOL. This is why a good education matters, and why the left opposed the very concept. Had I turned in a paper with a laugher like that to one of my profs, he would have made an example of me to the class for my stupidity, but now, it gets you a job at CNN.
The thing Twitter claimed they didn’t ever do, is now the official Twitter explanation for why they do it.
It’s brilliant.
Hurts when you get smacked with your own stick, doesn’t it, leftards?
“”We’ve corrected those errors and are undergoing an internal review to make certain that this policy is used as intended — to curb the misuse of media to harass or intimidate private individuals,” Twitter said.”
Translation – “We regret that any loyal leftists were caught for breaking these guidelines and are undergoing an internal review to make certain that this policy is used as intended —- to target only conservatives and any wayward leftists not adhering to “The Narrative,”” Twitter could have honestly said.
Proving “they’re not smart enough to tell us what to do”.
CNN comes across as the modern day Völkischer Beobachter. So we are beating the leftists over the head with their own rules. Now they go crying to mommy.
Imagine having a victim complex so intense that you think abusing a network policy to silence your adversaries is ‘good work’. Imagine being this demented.
Imagine being so pathetic that you cry when the rules you invented to censor others are now used to censor you. Also imagine knowing your father.
Spot on unme. Exactly what Twitter is doing. Abusing their own policy to silence different opinions. Imagine being this demented.
No they’re not.
Yes they are.
That’s not what we meant!!!
This is the way.
My immediate thought upon reading this new policy was, “They’ve just banned half the content on Twitter. Excellent!!!”
I guess Twitter thought that conservatives were dumb and would not figure out how to exploit the new rules.
That kind of logic makes sense, when you consider what type of politician considers themselves “conservative” these days.
what a MOVE…LMAO..!!
May it and the infrastructure it invented burn in hell.
A cesspool of Leftist Garbage.
I was “asked” to leave back in 2018…ha ha ha…. Booted for the CRIME of asking a question: To wit:
“Whats the percentage of those with TRUE Gender Dysphoria in Canada..?? .0004 or is it .0005..??” Pretty sure this was on the diktak of Herr Unter gruppenFurher Gerald Butts….the tweet was 4 months old.
FUCK Twitter forever…not cause I got the boot, cause its a Steaming self replicating brew of Mental Disease & Paedophilic Filth….ie: mostly populated by those who should (IMO), never be allowed to Procreate.
May we inflict all of their “new rules” upon them.
Evidence?
Due Process?
No these are Progressives,they insist these niceties are unneeded.
Forward.