(Okay, I'll be frank: Meghan sometimes played too much drama queen for me, and Amnesty undoubtedly under-counted the harassment since they don't mention the T word once, but
- she should not have been banned, and
- this is worth a read.
Haven't seen it published elsewhere - apologies if it has)
"Last week, Amnesty International released the findings of their “Troll Patrol Project” — “a joint effort by human rights researchers, technical experts, and thousands of online volunteers to build the world’s largest crowd-sourced dataset of online abuse against women.” The study determined that Twitter is a “toxic” place for women, finding that, in surveying tweets received by 778 female journalists and politicians from the UK and US throughout 2017, 1.1 million “abusive or problematic tweets” were sent over the course of the year, equalling one every 30 seconds on average. “Abusive tweets” were defined as “content that violates Twitter’s own rules,” including tweets that “promote violence against or threaten people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”
"Oddly, considering that women are so commonly the targets of “abusive tweets,” the category of “sex” is not included among Twitter’s protected categories. Though Amnesty’s study findings fail to mention this glaring hole in Twitter’s claimed attempts to discourage abuse on their platform, the company’s decision to omit “sex” from this list should demonstrate the insincerity in Twitter’s intentions, and the fact that addressing misogyny is not a priority for the company.
"The Amnesty study goes on to say that examples of abusive tweets “include physical or sexual threats, wishes for the physical harm or death, reference to violent events, behaviour that incites fear or repeated slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone.”
www.feministcurrent.com/2018/12/27/twitters-sexist-hypocrisy-can-no-longer-ignored/