A new Twitter rule against it to send “private media,” such as photographs and videos, exposing other people without their permission are already being used by fascists and whites who take advantage of the opposition and critics.
Tuesday, Twitter announced that it will add “public publications without the consent of the person (s) displayed” to the list of information, such as home addresses, identity documents, and information or financial information, which cannot be distributed without permission. The law seeks to protect Twitter users from harassment. Twitter mentioned the number of people such as “women, human rights activists, activists, and minorities,” and that “it does not apply to social media where the media and the words that accompany Tweets are shared or added. the importance of public speaking. ” The other thing it said was to consider and see if the media is related to a “very important issue” with “public interest” or “is being revealed by social media.”
At the same time, the process update he raised red flags. Twitter is forcing it over and over again, meaning that any user who has been around for a long time can be found to have been punished. And not only is Venn’s image of “more” and “information unpopular” circular, but the neo-fascist group relies on it. very unknown to avoid personal consequences because of their public behavior. Journalists who cover extremism always rely on advice from non-journalists, including academics and nonprofits, to expose white supremacists and fascists. The reporting system also places a responsibility on an account that is stated to state why the media component was known or the public interest thereafter. Twitter is no doubt burdened the power of content managers cannot be expected to have the right encyclopedic knowledge, leaving no time for in-depth research of any report.
The Twitter ad thus immediately attracted the attention of extremists who saw an opportunity for the website to retaliate. According to Vice, a well-known neo-Nazi person on the Telegraph messaging program told their followers, “Thanks to Twitter’s privacy policy, things are now going well for us as we can download Antifa doxxing pages easily. Anyone with a Twitter account is required to disclose doxxing records from the following accounts for destruction. “The Washington Post He further added that in the case of Gab’s white supremacist group, one user said he had given more than 50 reports with the comment, “It ‘s time for you not to be offended.”
Atlanta Antifascists, one of the most popular anti-inflammatory accounts on Twitter, wrote on Thursday was stated by revealing the “White Student Union” candidate. It also added that Twitter locked them in their account until they deleted the post. Twitter thread researcher Chad Loder in detail many other examples, including a photographer who was locked out of their account for what he said was a video, a public photographer, two anti-vax developers discussing the process. Gwen Snyder, the founder of the anti-fascist movement and researcher based in Philadelphia, told and the Washington Post that their account focuses on a 2019 photo of the mayor who was elected to a meeting with members of the Neo-fascist movement, the Proud Boys militants.
Much of the removal information posted by Twitter users also referred to privacy practices in unnamed countries, although journalists were photographed in the US and featured only U.S. citizens. Some of the most popular publications were not photos or videos, but photos of public photos. Since Twitter’s policy requires a person to report a “privacy” violation to ensure that he or she is one of the people being shown or their legal representative, this means that Twitter is acting on the basis of extremists or fearlessly accepting reports from their listeners . at a great price.
“In the past, neo-Nazis were using this new tactic to try to silence their opponents,” Atlanta Antifascists wrote in a public statement. “The idea of Twitter is to try to protect the white supremacists and the right-wing leaders from being viewed by the people. It’s unacceptable, but not surprising.”
Something else raises the question of whether the secret radio station is the cause of the fiasco, or simply warns anyone who feels the pre-existing barriers to its coercive practices. Luke O’Brien, former head of the Huffington Post here is a researcher A student of disinformation at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, told Gizmodo by telephone that his account had been closed in September for two manuscripts of human rights activists. The deletion notices he received also referred to law and “privacy” laws in some countries and said he would not be allowed to regain access until he removed them, even though the tweets he sent did not include public information or even. drawers.
O’Brien told Gizmodo he was locked in his account for one tweet about Eoin Lenihan, a social media user on the right Columbia Journalism Review what was said earlier in 2019 was published dubious (to say the least) data claimants to prove that members of the media were affiliated with antifa; the report was quickly taken by the appropriate wings of the blogosphere, launching a campaign of harassment and death threats against some of the journalists. O’Brien’s article tells of Lenihan’s stay in Germany, where Lenihan did not hide and is mentioned on his website and LinkedIn account (he lives in “Stuttgart area” and has written several titles and courses in German). The second tweet is very surprising: O’Brien responded to Claire Lehmann, founding editor of amateur race-science magazine Quillette, and “All right, Claire.”
O’Brien sent e-mails stating that his complaints against the reports had been rejected, as well as several emails sent to Twitter staff asking about the situation, which he did not respond to. He told Gizmodo that he had refused to delete the article without comment, because he did not want to test himself.
“I sent a public notice that was already known. That’s amazing, isn’t it? O’Brien told Gizmodo. “… You know, maybe the burdened supervisor made a mistake here, but as … apparently, I did not send any secret broadcasters or broadcasters or anything. I do not know what this rule is.
“Twitter did not approve of my emails at all,” O’Brien said. This is despite the second sentence for which he did nothing but mention Lehmann’s first name, he continued, being “worthless.”
“This is the fourth time that the terrorists have done this to me,” O’Brien joked. “Why is the Republican party not protecting my right to speak?”
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, best known for his unreadable and often confusing how to manage the company and its views on free speech, recently left the company. The new CEO Parag Agrawal says initiating a major overhaul of its design. There is no indication that these new rules are in line with these changes.
Gizmodo took to Twitter several times, pointing to several accounts that had been leaked in recent days under the “privacy” law. In response, Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy wrote, “The tweet in question did not violate our privacy policy – our teams did something wrong. We have sent a message to the user recognizing this error.”
Kennedy did not respond to a follow-up question by asking which tweet or account he was referring to, although he made a similar comment to the Post stating that it was Snyder’s post. Kennedy wrote that the company had been adhering to the same principles “in countries with the right to privacy for many years” and the new law was to “enhance security for everyone on Twitter.” He gave an example of how Twitter would be “without coercion”: the widespread sharing of photos of a rapist in a country free of privacy laws.
Twitter did not answer additional questions about the status of O’Brien’s account.
“People who are not on Twitter associate the race with persecution and cyber Nazis and accordingly, “Michael E. Hayden, a senior journalist and spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, told Gizmodo.” That’s why they can’t get rid of it [conspiracy theorist] Jack Posobiec, who used them to publish Pizzagate, Macron Leaks, and Stop the Steal. “
“That’s why he allows drug dealer Andy Ngo to send his followers to torture people,” Hayden said. founder who were well known on the right wing after claiming to have been attacked by antifa at a rally. “Anything new added to the Twitter feed, as a Place, or a new self-explanatory policy, reveals what people already know about Twitter – and the social war that favors the right.
