The Shame of Twitter

Beamur: women do report the abusivectweets and accounts and some do get reprimanded and rarely, suspended. But this kind of intensive, obsessive campaign is not really within the ability of most working women. We are talking about tech transactivists who live online and have nothing to do except take offence and wage war.

I don't use Twitter. So my question may show my ignorance!
If accounts get blocked simply due to a number of complaints, why don't people just repeatedly complain about ones that are misogynistic and abusive and get those blocked?

I'd like to think it was possible to voice facts here, like that adult male humans are men. This thread is a test of that - there are posts already on here that state this face which I suspect will be reported and deleted. Because it is 'not in the spirit' to name men as men, on a board mostly used by women (actual women as opposed to men in cosplay).

The problem is that they are banning women and because they force you to log your telephone, you can't set an account up under that and you can't delete the account if you are suspended. I got to the stage that they were putting me back in twitter jail even though I had not tweeted since the previous release. So I deleted the account. I may set up another, but at the moment, I can't be arsed. But I was being suspended for fuck all. If you say that men can't become women, this is now classed as 'hate speech'.

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Wish I knew who you lot are on twitter. We prob follow each other.

The TRA send out a signal and people mass report and block, leading to suspensions and bans. This is people who have nothing else to do except obsess about validation. Basement dwellers, mirror gazers. It's a minority of utter narcissists removing women from a public sphere.

I'm with hypp and Blythe.

They are but this is a crucial moment in the advance of men's rights and the regression or destruction of women's rights. I don't think we should leave our places at the front line so long as we aren't banned.

I agree.

They don't look at the content of tweets. It's an algorithm being manipulated by transactivist. If a tweet / poster gets a certain number of reports and blocks, it's gone. I understand twitter has being told how terfblocker and other abusive accounts are using this against women, but nothing is being done.

Ive been suspended and made to delete tweets for the exact same reason.

I called an adult male, a man.

The second my ban is lifted I'll re-tweet it.
They can ban me for life, I'll happily get posters printed saying the same and coat the town with them.

I refuse to be silenced.

I agree, we don't leave. We stand our ground. Twitter is an important way to find allies too.

I always imagined twitter secretly outsourced this sort of thing to underpaid and overqualified workers in the subcontinent.

The only use twitter has is that politicians and journalists seem to be addicted to it. So it's important to maintain a strong gender critical voice. I suppose when they pick individuals off more will rise to the challenge.

I imagine the twitter support staff all have blue hair and interesting pronouns. So what happened with the mn worker who divulged personal info - is anything being done?

They are but this is a crucial moment in the advance of men's rights and the regression or destruction of women's rights. I don't think we should leave our places at the front line so long as we aren't banned.

Transactivists will never ever stop chasing us so we might as well not run.

Women are already gathering in other places. I think Twitter will come to regret this.

We shouldn't boycott or leave twitter. We need to keep going.

And what's stopping you setting it up?

What servers would it run on? These things cost money. If it was supported by advertising, most likely TRAs would target the advertisers while the site was in its infancy.

I don't have any idea how to set up safe & decent social media for us either but would gladly subscribe to one. Keeping advertisers out would enable independence.

And what's stopping you setting it up?

I wouldn’t have the first clue how to either.

But I sure as heck would join up and even pay a monthly subscription if it meant being able to post and read stuff about women’s issues, away from all this madness.

And what's stopping you setting it up?

She may not have the tech skills, and/or the time.

Just to put it into context, crap like this is allowed to stand on Twitter (even though 'some women have penises' is modern day gaslighting), and with the threat that if we don't like, we can 'suck DM's dick'. An actual threat, allowed to stand. And I have seen a lot worse threats (leveled at women of course) that are allowed to stand.

Misogyny is allowed to stand, always. Even the SFPL could see no problem with 'that' t-shirt.