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Twitter fails to remove 100 abusive misogynists [View all]
More than a hundred Twitter accounts that had been reported for sending abuse to high-profile women went on to post misogynist content again after the company failed to remove them.
Research has shown that nearly half of the accounts flagged over graphic sexist abuse sent to women including the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and the former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton went on to repeat the offence.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit group, which conducted the research, said that Twitter’s failure to remove such accounts was “enabling and encouraging abusers to spew hate again”.
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After reporting the accounts that posted abuse to these women, the CCDH noted that 253 of these accounts had still not been removed two months later.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cf870e30-73d6-11ec-aacf-0736e08b15cd?
Research has shown that nearly half of the accounts flagged over graphic sexist abuse sent to women including the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and the former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton went on to repeat the offence.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit group, which conducted the research, said that Twitter’s failure to remove such accounts was “enabling and encouraging abusers to spew hate again”.
(Snip)
After reporting the accounts that posted abuse to these women, the CCDH noted that 253 of these accounts had still not been removed two months later.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cf870e30-73d6-11ec-aacf-0736e08b15cd?
I'm sure no one in this group thinks this only applies to Twitter. Reddit is probably the worst of them all. But in reality, none actually considers words like 'b*tch' and 'c*nt' to be hate speech.
Women are the only oppressed group for which hateful slurs are still widely considered to be socially acceptable. Anyone is free to use them and defend their use.
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