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Parliamentary committee Joanna Cherry SNP MP & QC challenge to Twitter representative about abuse of women / 'terf' / why sex is not protected characteristic

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R0wantrees · 01/05/2019 17:45

Human Rights Committee - EXTRACT
Wednesday 1 May 2019 Meeting started at 3.16pm, ended 4.52pm

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

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Voice0fReason · 01/05/2019 22:30

Outstanding work - questions that need answers

ScrimshawTheSecond · 01/05/2019 22:20

Blow me down. The woman is fierce.

RedDogsBeg · 01/05/2019 22:03

Apologies - Joanna not Joanne at the end.

RedDogsBeg · 01/05/2019 22:01

We all know exactly why the tweets stayed up for as long as they did and why those written by women were deleted and the women suspended as does the person who was there representing twitter, she just didn't have the courage to say it. No doubt Joanna will receive a woolly, word salad letter full of meaningless soundbites trying to cover Twitter's sexism, misogyny and general contempt for women.

There is only one cohort of users Twitter listens to or cares about.

The performance of the person from Twitter was excrutiatingly embarrassing, couldn't answer a single simple question and waffled or tried to answer a question that hadn't been asked.

Good work Joanne.

TerfectlyImperfect · 01/05/2019 21:46

That was bloody brilliant! Thank you Joanna.

LizzieSiddal · 01/05/2019 21:46

Joanna you are bloody amazing.Star

I loved her question about gender (though I wish she’d said sex) balance amongst the Twitter mods.
Shall we take bets? 98% men is my guess.

Does anyone know how we can see the letters which Twitter have agreed to write, re questions not answers today?

Cuntysnark · 01/05/2019 21:33

I’ve just written (another) thank you card to Cherry. I’m feeling a bit emotional.

Genderfreelass · 01/05/2019 21:14

So Penny M not satisfied with doing one job badly now wants to do another badly. I'm starting to think SNP might get my vote and im totally anti indyref2. Joan has been amazing now Joanna and those in the leaked emails... SNP seem to be only party even questioning trans ideology and it's impacts.

SaskiaRembrandt · 01/05/2019 20:57

Interesting (and surprisingly unbiased) report about the questioning of the Twitter rep. techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/twitter-grilled-on-policy-approach-that-reinforces-misogyny/

ByGrabtharsHammarWhatASaving · 01/05/2019 20:16

Ooooo that was great. I enjoyed that very much. Yet another SNP woman proves herself to give zero fucks and take zero prisoners. Why can't we get some politicians like that in England? The kind with a spine and a conscience. That waffling prat in the blazer didn't stand a chance.

I'm going to watch it again.

ThePurportedDoctoress · 01/05/2019 19:57

Watching it now. I'm so grateful to Joanna Cherry, Joan McAlpine and other women politicians who get it, they give me hope!

Yummummy1973 · 01/05/2019 19:51

So glad this is happening!
As a Transwoman, I think it's about time we women had some protection online from the hate!

EweSurname · 01/05/2019 19:45

She’s come to the attention of sonic fox, who’s tweet was eventually deleted.

ChickenNuggetsChipsAndBeans · 01/05/2019 19:41

Joanna Cherry was amazing. I just wish that her questioning reached a broader audience.

AlwaysComingHome · 01/05/2019 19:29

If Mordant is taking over defence we’d better start learning Russian or Chinese.

Heck, I’m worried even the Swiss might have a crack at us.

RepealTheGRA · 01/05/2019 19:26

Mordaunt in charge of defence? Fuck me, that’s not good.

At this rate I’m considering a move to Scotland, SNP are starting to be the party most ‘on’ this.

Destinysdaughter · 01/05/2019 19:17

Wow that was amazing! She was so clear and asking the questions of Twitter many of us want answered. Just shows why we need more female MPs and all women shortlists!

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R0wantrees · 01/05/2019 19:06

Penny Mordant is keeping Women & Equalities as well as taking on Defence! Hmm

H/t Bluestitch

'Did Mumsnet Just Hand Penny Mordaunt Her Arse?'
March 14, 2019 by Eleanor Scott

(extract)
"It takes a certain set of tools to turn a golden opportunity to engage with hundreds of thousands of women on International Women’s Day into an unmitigated PR disaster, and Penny Mordaunt MP has somehow managed to pull it off. I’ve met Penny Mordaunt a few times in Portsmouth over the years while I was on Council-related business, and she has always seemed perfectly likeable and pleasant. But future Prime Minister material? Not unless courting disaster is now seen as prerequisite rather than unfortunate happenstance." (continues)

eleanorscottarchaeology.com/els-blog/2019/3/14/the-day-that-mumsnet-took-down-penny-mordaunt-mp

Parliamentary committee Joanna Cherry SNP MP & QC challenge to Twitter representative about abuse of women / 'terf' / why sex is not protected characteristic
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truthisarevolutionaryact · 01/05/2019 19:03

Watching that was awesome. Very effective questioning with the Twitter rep appearing clueless.

Genderfreelass · 01/05/2019 19:00

Twitter rep did not come across well at all, seemed quite clueless. Well done Joanna though, cool calm and utterly brilliant!

EweSurname · 01/05/2019 18:56

Joanna’s facing some hostility (on twitter of course) for this

TimeLady · 01/05/2019 18:54

My goodness, Joanna Cherry was impressive. The Twitter representative was totally out of her depth.

donquixotedelamancha · 01/05/2019 18:49

The full extent isn't realised.

I'm usually very happy to blame stupidity over malice, but the extent of the moderation bias is such that I think it's policy. Perhaps not officially so, but still coming from high enough to affect the whole moderation culture.

I think it will take a lot more than a PR bod (who may well see the problem) nodding sympathetically to change that policy.

Lumene · 01/05/2019 18:45

Thank goodness someone is asking these questions.

donquixotedelamancha · 01/05/2019 18:43

God help the defence ministry, they've got a chocolate teapot and a half there.

Yeah, I bet they are really pissed off they are losing the smooth efficiency of Gavin Williamson. I'm sure they look with jealousy at the competence of people like Chris Grayling or Karen Bradley.

Let's face it, when Michael Gove is the most effective minister in your cabinet, you've fucked up.

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