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Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls - A World-Wide Wake-Up Call

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kat:
Minor update. The Broadband Commission has uploaded an interim 'highlights' report that drops some of the more incendiary arguments raised in the original whilst still (obviously relative to the context) emphasizes a gender bias; one or two points now tentatively acknowledge the problem of online abuse is a much broader issue.


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ratty redemption [RIP]:
maybe the people who support this latest proposed crackdown on the internet, could learn from the mistakes of a certain female "diversity officer" who has just been arrested in the uk, for inciting genocide against white men. in other words, these laws work both ways. it does not give one gender free reign to say and do what ever they like. while attempting to hide behind the law.

kat:
When it comes to incidents like that, Government involvement is typically a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. And conversely unless it can be proved the individuals comments were a deliberate call to action (it's not clear what the person was actually cautioned over), then all their arrest/Cautioning does is martyr the person in the eyes of fellow believers, especially where the consequences of free expression can be used to boost an already well developed or staunch ideology.

Having said that though the indecent should never have got that far as Twitter already has a set of self-reporting tools in place that can be used to reprimand individuals for subjectively offensive content posted to the service, except it's rarely applied universally - being anonymous or public has no bearing on that (people post the most atrocious stuff on Twitter under their own names), so the UN's report calling for greater 'regulation' isn't the answer; ironically they can't call for 'better application' as that would force service providers to apply ToS violations equally.

Ho hum...

ratty redemption [RIP]:
you are correct kat, and i was being somewhat pedantic with my previous post.

the big picture here is of course censoring free speech affects everyone to some degree, not just people we disagree with. also to be honest, i doubt the young woman we are referring to was using the offensive hashtag in a literal way, more likely she thought she was lol trolling. which again shows why these laws shouldn't be as draconian as they are wanting them to be.

regarding twitter, apparently their tos has recently been updated, to include the option to report someone for simply disagreeing with the user's opinion. that's an insanely wide net to cast, in order to try and catch a relatively small number of fish.

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