It’s about ethics in journalism:
A group called Women, Action, and the Media, which advocates for better representation of women, is testing a new reporting process for gender-based harassment. The group developed a tool for reporting harassment and will forward confirmed reports to Twitter. “If it checks out, we’ll escalate it to Twitter right away (24 hours max, hopefully much less than that) and work to get you a speedy resolution,” says the group, which abbreviates itself as WAM. “But please note: we’re not Twitter, and we can’t make decisions for them.”
I wondered what exactly this small non-profit believes in. You can check them out here or check their agenda from the statements in the video above. Their core objective is what they call “gender justice in media.” That means that they are interested in far more than curbing online harassment. They want gender quotas for all media businesses, equal representation for women in, say, video-games, gender parity in employment in journalism and in the stories themselves.
THE HORROR.
This nefarious group of women will CENSOR TWITTER:
I can find no reason to oppose a stronger effort by Twitter to prevent individual users from stalking or harassing others – but if merely saying nasty things about someone can be seen as harassment, then where on earth does this well-intentioned censorship end?
SLIPPERY SLOPES! First you bitches won’t let us give you a simple damn compliment:
@SonBateman @chloT94 I would rape the shit out of her
— Pumpkin Fucker (@ELNEIGHBORADOR) November 10, 2014
@ELNEIGHBORADOR @chloT94 I would fucking eat her remains— 2ND (@SonBateman) November 10, 2014
And next it will be marrying box turtles! Madness! Anarchy!
Somehow, I suspect the culture wars online just got a little more frayed. Because Twitter has empowered leftist feminists to have a censorship field day.
Sigh. From the announcement Sullivan quotes in his own damn post:
The group developed a tool for reporting harassment and will forward confirmed reports to Twitter. “If it checks out, we’ll escalate it to Twitter right away (24 hours max, hopefully much less than that) and work to get you a speedy resolution,” says the group, which abbreviates itself as WAM. “But please note: we’re not Twitter, and we can’t make decisions for them.”
So they are forwarding things. To Twitter. On an advisory basis.
“We’re always trying to improve the way we handle abuse issues, and WAM is one of many organizations we work with around the world on best practices for user safety,” a company spokesman told The Verge.
Where will this terrible tyranny end?
A.
Via Emma.
well, he still has latent publikan thought processing.
To read his most recent stuff it’s clear that he’s decided that feminism has gone far enough and that middle class white men like him are now being oppressed by the dominant female half of the population. He also has the opinion that Christians like him are oppressed in the USA. He has to deal with a lot of oppression, apparently.