Twitter C/D

this is not
The life
I chose
This is the life
That chose
Me

(Girl
you must be
a plum
because
that ass
is purple fruit
or whatever)

Ii. Get up early ? I cannot sleep

Haunted by #plums

forgive me
for plums contain natural mellowing agents
and I have been so anxious, and so.. full of anxiety

left none plums tweets great

plum tweet haters ain't

guys i've done a little research and read some of the baby shoes tweets and they're bad, sorry

I feel the shit account tour bracket is generally a symptom of horribleness but as an annual way for me to notice and understand the badness of certain tweetspheres it’s illuminating

sadly this year I recognize 2/3rds of the people and.... ok they’re fucking horrible

This sounds like bullshit to me?

PSA. For anyone beset by Nazi and brownshirt bots: I changed my Twitter address to Germany at the suggestion of a shrewd friend, and they vanished. Germany has stricter hate-speech laws.

— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) December 4, 2017

It's a nod to this new law, though obv it's still a reactive thing. Can't imagine her not seeing swastikas etc at all any more.

yet the laws still let her username through!!

Ha!

I think they don't necessarily trust the location you've set, but yeah, if you're "in Germany" it screens out a shitload of accounts that espouse values and symbols banned in Germany

But oh, you'll get so many new bdsm accounts following you.

& Sprockets promos

I'd take both of those over white fascists any day

hell, I'd take them even if I have to deal with the white fascists

My account got a 12 hour suspension for an old tweet quoting Drive Like Jehu lyrics (which accompanied my live video of the band performing said song/lyrics). They made me cough up my phone # (I used a burner #) and then make me brute-force delete the tweet before my 12 hours began counting down.

I searched for the same lyric on twitter and found multiple references, mostly from inactive accounts.

wait...what the hell

What lyric?

From "Luau":

"Wipe the last haole the fuck off our turf"

Kinda nuanced and obscure, but I could see how an alt-right brah-zi would be offended (most of my tweetage is progressive/liberal likes/retweets).

DID YOU KNOW: The city of San Francisco Republican Party election night event was held at the Twitter Corporate HQ?

https://www.facebook.com/events/1814569718802103/

Small group of @SFGOP gathering @twitter HQ #Runway for viewing party #right now. #vote2016 #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/vXFUFx6WLU

— Lisa Amin Gulezian (@LisaAminABC7) November 9, 2016

Food & beverage set up underway at Runway inside @twitter HQ building for official @SFGOP party. #GOP @KTVU #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/VD4XhHFTtI

— Cristina Rendon (@CristinaKTVU) November 9, 2016

Official @SFGOP watch party will be held inside Runway @Twitter HQ building. Party starts at 6:30 p.m. @KTVU #electionday #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/EOmc44GxJF

— Cristina Rendon (@CristinaKTVU) November 9, 2016

Join the SFGOP for an Election Watch Party at Twitter HQ. https://t.co/yQYJ0pwxc3

— San Francisco GOP (@SFGOP) May 26, 2016

tf

just googled runway twitter hq and looks like its just a coworking space thats in the twitter building

Jack Dorsey is def a Nazi tho

otm, he's chill with those dudes and is undoubtedly one of the nazi-adjacent tech libertarian types who sees "freedom" as the strongest thing about the internet

I was thinking about this recently after watching the Halt & Catch Fire tv show. Lots of people who were early adopters of the internet and were hanging out on newsgroups, irc, whatever back in the early 90s were happy that there was a place where you could be whoever you wanted, express yourself and talk about your nerd music or experiment with your image, talk to people of different backgrounds and sexualities even if everyone near you was a total norm.

so it was an easy sell to a lot of us to talk about freedom of speech and personal liberty. beut you know what also was there? Moderation. Newsgroups were nearly all moderated with the exception of the alt.* ones. If your ISP or usenet admin thought some groups were vile, they didn't get mirrored. IRC channels? moderated by whoever started the discussion

twitter is almost like someone said "ok, we'll rebuild irc but instead of finding specific channels for discussion, we'll let you see absolutely everyone's message and YOU build the list of people you want to see content from". which is fine in theory, but a complete design failure when it comes to moderation. the thing that was completely lost in assuming the ethos was always about "freedom" is that most of the time, it was about *caring about a community you built*

good post

imo you should 51 that post for irony

D

otm

every alt-right or gamergate dipshit is acting as an ad hoc moderator because of the way twitter's reporting system works -- the people and tweets that are reported the most are the ones that get attention, so the ability to direct all your flunkies to report things because you're trying to fuck with someone pretty much gives you that power

there's no real "community moderation" otherwise, because communities are transient and without real dividing lines. it's not completely flat because affinity groups do form, but the ability to moderate is flat. I could tweet about music and never interact with any of these people and one day, someone could decide that they don't like me and cherry-pick one tweet to hammer. I think the only reason this doesn't happen more is because these ad hoc mods think they have agendas, and the juicier targets are verified so the reporting queue is different

there's no real political or social agenda in that behavior, eventually any popular account becomes a target because knocking people off a pedestal is the most juvenile version of fun. that simple joy of just knocking someone offline because they made the mistake of being popular

again, it reminds me of IRC -- even with irc moderation the older networks had no concept of channel ownership, if the channel was empty and you joined, you'd be able to take it over. there were entire parts of the internet that would be jacked up pre DDoS days, you'd just do a not-so-distributed denial of service attack by ping flooding users on slower connections or the weaker servers, get them disconnected or desynched, all so you could get mod powers for some community you probably didn't give a shit about, because wrecking someone else's shit was fun

ha thats prob a felony now

there was a moment in the very early 00s when some cybercrime law was passed and it was retroactive. I explained it to my roommate at the time and we were like”whoa we have done many crimes”

i kinda miss irc, shit was wild

just realised my first irc experience would have been almost exactly 23 years ago *gulp*

that's a real slap to the face with a large trout

ah memories

i met my first serious girlfriend on irc ffs

There should probably be an IRC reminiscing thread.

Or a buzzfeed listicle, “you know you’re an IRC kid when...”

an iirc kid afaic

There's an interesting new Twitter rule coming up soon.

How much you want to bet that it will apply to guillotine jokes, but not, say, bombing Yemen. pic.twitter.com/oJBVLawicG

— Cindy Stew Who (@voicehaver) December 12, 2017

you sure y'all on the same page? https://t.co/8c2d7xusmH

— 💔 (@lexwatchmeflexx) December 22, 2017

one of my least favorite parts of twitter. when your drag gets 3x as many retweets as the other person has followers. basically cyberbullying

yeah. but at least no one involved has which sports teams they root for in their bios

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/opinion/digital-nazi-hunter-trump.html

good website

Twitter sided with the Nazis.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED etc

still though

Can we fast forward to the part where it turns out there are a bunch of top level Twitter people with secret alt right online lives

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/368126-sen-warner-disappointed-with-twitter-about-russian-election-meddling

“I’m disappointed. I’ve been disappointed throughout this,” Warner told reporters. “Twitter has been often times the slowest to respond. Most of their work was derivative to the Facebook work. The other companies met the deadline which was way over a month from when they testified.”

Warner is currently pursuing legislation he co-sponsored with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) that would force tech companies to be more transparent about who is purchasing political advertisements on their platforms.

The Honest Ads Act would hold companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to similar political ad transparency standards as TV and radio outlets.

“[Tech companies] want to continue this approach of self-policing. I think that at the end of the day, that doesn’t cut the mustard,” Warner said on Tuesday.

He said if companies continue to fight legislation now, down the road they may “wish they could have taken the Honest Ads Act as opposed to where this policy discussion may lead us.”

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— Marriott Rewards (@MarriottRewards) January 11, 2018

Excuse me