Twitter bans

At last our needs are being taken seriously by some politicians, if Joanna was my MP I would definitely vote for her.

Another ground breaking piece from James Kirkup. Great links in it. They've been keeping me busy for awhile and there's lots to go.

That’s a great article!

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/at-last-an-mp-brave-enough-to-say-twitter-hates-women/

Jennifer Cobbe
@jennifercobbe
It's not a slur, no matter how hard TERFs try to make it so. And not all rad fems are TERFs - there are plenty of trans inclusionary rad fems. The term 'TERF' exists to distinguish the two groups. Transphobia is a choice made by you and others.

Joanna Cherry QC MP
@joannaccherry
Replying to @jennifercobbe @Carregonnen
terf, despite being occasionally applied to men, is very much a term that refers to women, like bitch or cu@t both of which are also used to refer to men, but no one is pretending they are therefore not gendered! I’m grateful to @CCriadoPerez for this insight

Excellent work from Joanna Cherry there. Well done!

Oh my god EweSurname that is so good! I haven’t even finished watching yet

Posted too soon!

Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻
@MarkDiStef
It’s getting &@%^ at the Human Rights Committee questioning of Twitter right now.

SNP’s Joanna Cherry: “Do you accept that the word TERF is a gendered term, forgive me, in the same way as bitch and cunt are gendered terms?"

Twitter’s Katy Minshall: “Yes”

Cherry: “And are bitch and cunt acceptable on Twitter?”

Minshall: “… we don’t have a prohibition on swearing… but it would be a violation if people were to target people with that stuff of language"

Cherry: “So if a tweet said, ‘shut the fuck up cunt’, would that be acceptable or taken down?”

Twitter’s head of UK government, public policy Katy Minshall says she can speak to safety team and follow up.

Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻
@MarkDiStef
It’s getting &@%^ at the Human Rights Committee questioning of Twitter right now.

SNP’s Joanna Cherry: “Do you accept that the word TERF is a gendered term, forgive me, in the same way as bitch and cunt are gendered terms?"

Frances
@FrancesRoseScot
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/0364bfc3-5adc-4aef-99bd-48c68daacc38?in=15:27:30&out=15:50:30 ….

Watch @joannaccherry forensically interrogate @Twitter about allegations of their misogynist policies and the fact that they have omitted “sex” (which is a legally protected characteristic) from their list of hateful conduct. That’s all I want. Safety

In an era where we aren’t supposed to identify a person’s sex, Twitter seems to be pretty good at identifying and banning people of one particular sex

Quite..

Twitter is an absolute cesspool and getting worse by the day as they seem to be banning all women who speak perfect fucking sense and actually have a brain.

Glad you posted the Helen Lewis tweet Ewesurname. I was wondering whether there was a suitable thread. Helen Lewis is a prime example of the 'No compromise' TRA target. She is concerned transgender women in women's prisons and puberty blockers for children. Yet she gets as much abuse as if she misgendered, deadnamed and wore a badge saying 'I love being a terf' daily. I always think of her when I read posters pointing out being 'kind' is no guarantee of avoiding a pile on.

Women get banned for stating biological facts and SEXual orientation and TRA can post anything they like. Twitter will soon be history or even more of a cesspool of sexual deviants than it is already, MAPS NOMAPS no problem, women no way!

Helen Lewis
‏**@helenlewis**
UPDATE: This tweet is officially not abusive. Thanks, Twitter. I will try to view it “in the context of a larger conversation” whatever the hell that means.

twitter.com/helenlewis/status/1122812276640309254

Joanna Cherry QC MP
‏*@joannaccherry*
More Joanna Cherry QC MP Retweeted Helen Lewis
The @HumanRightsCtte is taking evidence from @twitter tomorrow on democracy, privacy, free speech & freedom of association. I’ll be asking them for the basis of their decision that this tweet to @helenlewis is not abusive #humanrights #FreeSpeech #onlineabuse

And

UK Parliament Human Rights Committee
‏***@HumanRightsCtte*
1/2 Intimidation in Public Life: A Review by @PublicStandards highlights “persistent, vile and shocking abuse” of MPs: Behaviour driven by use of social media platforms. www.gov.uk/government/collections/intimidation-in-public-life …

What can be done?

2/2 @HumanRightsCtte Watch tomorrow’s evidence session with @facebook and @Twitter live from 3.15pm parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0364bfc3-5adc-4aef-99bd-48c68daacc38 … @HarrietHarman

MRKHvoice is very impressive. Young bright and articulate who seems to have fallen inadvertently into a position of providing a rational intersex voice, challenging those who decide to speak for her.

As the appeal letter above explains, MRKHvoice is a professional working in SEN.

This is her analysis of the Safeguarding, legal & policy issues with the Mermaids/Allsorts school toolkits at 'Correcting A Blindspot' meeting in Leeds last year organised by Lisa Muggeridge:

MRKHvoice is an amazing woman. It is criminal that she has been banned.

Oh. I thought ‘one of the most hateful transgender hostile extremists’ must be dear Steph’s new signature.

Steph, ducky, can I introduce you to the correct use of a hyphen?

Well Hayden has posted that before the appeal. Seems like they know the outcome already!

What a disgusting post from Hayden.

This is an astonishing video from Sweden. English subtitles. It discusses ROGD, especially the female rise, which is seemingly global now.

www.svtplay.se/video/22035454/uppdrag-granskning/uppdrag-granskning-sasong-20-the-trans-train

MRKHvoice is brilliant. Can't count how many ♥️ I've given her Tweets.

Great letter. Wonder if it'll work.

What with this and the MAPs, Twitter is becoming a cess pool.

Who gives a toss what Hayden thinks? An utter nomark.

I banned Twitter from my life.

MRKHVoice was great on there, and Jane Clare Jones. And wildflower hour. Otherwise, I'll not miss it.

Twitter hates women.

MRKH is impressive, reasoned and intelligent. I'm so angry she has been banned from Twitter.