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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

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.

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

Joanna you are bloody amazing.

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?

That was bloody brilliant! Thank you Joanna.

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.

Apologies - Joanna not Joanne at the end.

Blow me down. The woman is fierce.

Outstanding work - questions that need answers

I think the person representing Twitter was purposefully unhelpful.

They know the option is there to “look into that and write to you”, so it makes sense to say as little as possible at these committees. They can then go back to the office and get the lawyers to write the woolly, worded letters.

Excellent work, Joanna!

The woman from Twitter was woefully inadequate.

I’ve just looked and Joanna’s twitter and it’s awful.

Joanna Cherry is retweeting some of the ''feedback'' she is getting on twitter

Joanna Cherry was outstanding - the rep from Twitter was completely out of her depth. Hurray for women like Joanna, and Joan McAlpine.

It's rough seeing the abuse retweeted, but in the long run, it will help. This is what a woman is subjected to if she dares question misogyny on Twitter. It's clear as day. Nicely illustrating the use of 'terf' in context, also.

Joanna was excellent. I'm so glad this is getting the airing it deserves.

The twitter rep response was woeful, they know exactly why this is a problem with their platform, why they have done nothing about it and why sex was excluded as a protected characteristic.

I remember them launching the consultation about their hateful conduct policy, I and many other women filled it out explaining that sex must be protected and why it would become a big issue if it wasn't.

They chose to ignore this - I suspect because it clashes with gender/gender identity which they favour above sex as a company and as a platform.

Was interesting the Twitter rep said they were communicating with women's groups about the misogyny on there. Tbh unless the women's groups are GC that's unlikely to help. Any chance FPFW or similar can insist on being consulted?

The Twitter rep did say she was meeting Caroline and the Journalist-sorry can’t remember her name. That meeting should be very interesting.

Seems to me the Twitter rep was a lamb sent to the slaughter by her (no doubt male) bosses. She had no idea and at times I felt sorry for her. Plus, I think she believes sex and gender are the same thing. Joanna Cherry was brilliant.

Ah that was fantastic. Thank you Joanna!

What a pathetic performance from that woman from twitter. I would ask how on earth someone of such limited capability has got a job at a level where she's the one put before MPs, but actually, I think it just further demonstrates how poor twitter are on misogyny, they obviously don't place any importance on it at all.