This favoritism is very strange as Randi Lee Harper is able to silence LGBT on Twitter and violate consumers privacy.
Twitter continues to exhibit a punitive handling of these issues in certain cases.
Why not reach out to Jose and discuss the reasoning?
Why not provide some level of customer service, especially as their reputation is not so great in social media now?
Why not give Jose an opportunity to correct the problem and have a learning opportunity that can help Jose and make clear to other consumers what is and what is not allowed?
It makes no sense that Twitter leaves not just Jose, but all consumers mystified.
Especially as the double standard of their moderation remains evident.
Some people are pretty freely abused on Twitter.
@JoshScottJones go get a better hair cut @JessicaNorthey is just fine without your display of mental midgetry to make her laugh & point at u
Why would @Jack allow a rampant hater to hate 44% of potential consumers openly, derisively and violently when he is in charge of a corporation engaged in the business of social media.
That is, allowing people to connect with other people through the power of twitter networking.
Why allow someone to literally attack your consumers, potential new customer base?
Professional evaluation of @randileeharper’s false claims showed that only .66% of what she was claiming as harassment was harassment.
And in any case “gamergate” is NOT an organized group.
Some people meet on various websites to discuss the issue, and actually plan. This apparently takes place on open to the public websites like Kotuku in Action.
That all is perfectly legal. And by professional measurement, anyone even remotely connected to being pro gamergate was only a tiny percent of the harassment this salacious liar, @randileeharper claimed.
They all immigrated to America from oppressive regimes (The UK Parliament now spends time debating 1 person from entering their fine establishment).
Taiwan is of course the remains of Nationalist China, where Chiang Kai Shek retreated after being defeated by the Communist, Mao) and spoke out in favor of free speech.
And Cathy escaped Soviet Russia in 1980 or thereabouts.
They are now attacked by professional journalists and tech, and anti consumer and anti free speech zealots.
This is very strange to me, as quite frankly in the 70’s Milo would have been at the head of the Gay Pride Parade, when simply being brave enough TO SPEAK made you a hero.
He would have danced with the Village People, and people would have been ASTOUNDED that an openly Gay man was a professional journalist telling people where to stick it.
Instead he is now demonized by anti #consumer zealots such as Randi Lee Harper for speaking his mind.
Randi Lee Harper can and will have professional journalists barred from Tech events.
Apparently @Sxsw and @hugh_w_forrest have no commitment to free speech, either.
Randi thinks by tossing out false allegations she can harass and intimidate into silence. This is passive aggressiveness by design. An exploit, as it were.
"In not questioning people's motivation, it's easier to get a solution" – uh? ALWAYS question motivations bcz that's how you find exploits.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 1, 2016
Professional journalists, or other people, are routinely accused of falsehoods by Randi Lee Harper, as Twitter stands by, watching her drive their business into the shitter.
@a_man_in_black sending a buncha creeps into my mentions. Appears to be really upset with that viral Twitter medium post I made.
In this archive, Randi explains in a deleted tweet that she is just acting like a dude. I don’t know many people, dudes or otherwise that routinely tell people to self immolate, and actually get away with it.
She drives people away from twitter in droves through her openly condoned and endorsed harassment.
@randileeharper thank you for this! Read it, passed on to team, and we're on it and want to fix!
She wants to build fences, and will use ANY language necessary to drive you off, shame, humiliate and silence you that she wishes. Including advocating violence as she advocates violence.
This of course violates Twitter Dev ToS, but no one at Twitter REALLY has any commitment to free speech, or fucks to give that she abuses TRANS people during the course of this filtering of content.
We need more activism as code. We need more feminism in code. I want *these* politics in my code.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) July 2, 2015
@CardsAgstHrsmt i thought I was just hiding low quality content, but if it's still valid, gosh.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 7, 2016
@CardsAgstHrsmt I guess I should yell at gmail about their spam filtering 😦
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 7, 2016
All Randi does is call anyone else’s opinion “harassment” and Kristen leaps pretty quickly to publish. In fact she will publish without waiting for a response from the person she asked for comment.
Today, Herb Caen would be rolling over in his grave, as unprofessional yellow attack dog journalists like Kristen V Brown write articles devoid of fact or evidence and slam people who stick up for their, and others, free speech.
It was Mercedes Carrera (@themercedesxxx), who is not only a porn star, and by necessity guards her free speech, who is brave enough to speak out to defend others free speech despite the derision and scorn heaped on her by Randi Lee Harper, with Twitter and other tech companies direct complicity.
Mercedes was deplatformed by SXSW after Randi Lee Harper falsely claimed harassment and @sxsw and organizer @Hugh_w_forrest chose to believe a racist abuser of Trans people instead of keeping a commitment to free speech and letting Mercedes speak on her scheduled day.
I really don't care about people that are posting to that HT with counterspeech. Some people don't want to see that HT at all. That's valid.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 9, 2016
And the helpful “journalism” of Kristen V Brown, who is the least professional journalist I have ever encountered.
Mercedes, in the terms of Social Justice, is a PoC sex worker who was deplatformed by a white feminist who is openly racist and bullies trans and PoC to keep them in line as Twitter does NOTHING to her.
She has been attacked publically by empowered white feminists who represent the patriarchy, and are empowered by @jack to attack whomever they wish at their leisure.
And I have no incentive to be amenable to #censorship when I'm brought out as a free speech advocate for #GamerGate, #sxsw.
Easy. Simply label everyone with a different opinion as you as members of a Hate Group, equivalent to ISIS.
And then presto voila. No one in tech or journalism will fact check you, and in fact will attack people who speak up as those very same haters, or complicit with hate, or foul murderers, beasts and rapists despite you never having uttered an offensive word.
And so while Randi Lee Harper boasts that her enemy is both incompetent and only loud, and she hates men (you can hate men on twitter, it’s totally OK) and tells people repeatedly to self immolate (you can advocate violence on twitter if you have the right politics, even if you run an anti abuse charity) no one at Twitter will act.
Randi openly threatens consumers. She can, and will pull down your metadata, write a block list targeting YOU and then, knowing SJW Twitter is the worst, watch it all unfold.
“Unfold” as in SJW twitter attacks you relentlessly after being greenlighted by Randi.
Anytime you tweet hateful stuff at me, I'm just going to pull down alllll your account metadata. Take that, conspiracy fans.
It is is NOT surprising to me at all that Randi can do this.
When I wrote to @Vijaya, the General Council for help with cyberbullying (I was doxed and threatened by leadership of a social media company, Empire Avenue, Gareth Davies (@me_gareth), Keith Gill (@digitalkeith), Nance Larson (@nancelarson) and Chris Sandys (@usafa_93), Vijaya Gadde blocked me.
Proud to be working on these issues with great people at @twitter. Protecting free expression by battling abuse. http://t.co/b278Rqa2Ms
Multiple accounts were ultimately suspended for making violent threats against me, doxing, and non violent threats.
And yet I STILL find that Twitter, far from caring about the @safety and #privacy of their consumers, endorses a person who boasts of violating consumers privacy openly in her twitter feed AND advocates violence routinely.
As a result, I do not believe that Twitter or @jack care about consumers.
In fact I think they hate them. Despise them, and think there is an inexhaustible supply of them.
Essentially they are simply the new overlords, who in replacing the old overlords, say nice words while lying on national tv about what they do.
Instead of Twitter simply handling the matter professionally, I had to involve the FTC, San Francisco DA’s office, CA DoJ and Senator Feinstein.
Who ALL acted to protect me, an American citizen. Thanks Home Team!
I HOPE they will now turn their interest to protecting consumers from the very people who should be most interested in the health and well being of Citizens, ie consumers, from business which hates them.
That being the Tech Industry and Journalism.
Totalitarianism is totalitarianism, no matter how you brand it.
If government won’t act it won’t matter. You see I’m all in favor of burning this mother down (in the free speech sense) and driving Twitter right out of business, IF they won’t protect consumers from rampant abuse by Randi Lee Harper and others who seek to exploit others for personal gain.
We call on regulators at state, local and federal levels to investigate @twitter, @jack, @randileeharper and the funding mechanism that appears to be the shitheap known as @patreon.
For another side of Mercedes besides her tush, check out her ASMR video. If you don’t know what that is, it’s tingling people describe as a head orgasm.
Of course Brianna Wu, aka @Spacekatgal, labels anyone who is pro consumer and accurate journalism as part of a hate group, along with Randi Lee Harper.
No one doubts Brianna Wu received threats, I have as well. But to label everyone who posts to a twitter hashtag as part of a hate group is beyond absurd.
And twitter allows it.
Jack hates people. Won’t protect them from massive and sustained abuse.
I believe Randi’s charity, which she along with Alex Lifschitz (Crash Overrride Network, @alexlifschitz), Zoe Quinn (Crash Override Network, @UnburntWitch), and Sheri Rubin (Design Direct Deliver, @SheriRubin) who serve as inaugural members for the organization’s board of directors is a sham designed to profit off the media attention surrounding Gamer Gate.
I believe @jack and @vijaya and @safety public statements are duplicitous and harm consumers who then believe Twitter indeed seeks to protect safety and privacy.
Twitter stands for freedom of expression, speaking truth to power, and empowering dialogue. That starts with safety. https://t.co/PbEoM1lCyb
Randi is allowed to lie at will, spread falsehoods, and label anyone she wishes as part of a Hate group for simply using Twitter as designed. To communicate.
I've pissed off a lot of people. I've angered racists, TERFs, MRAs, ISIS, and GamerGate. You name the hate group, they don't like me.
I don’t refer to any of these alleged groups as groups except ISIS.
I also appear to have offended ISIS, being on their public block list. Thanks Twitter. It’s great to know ISIS has a published blocklist that’s publically available on Twitter.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 29, 2015
These mobs of hatred are a sustained campaign. We need to provide ongoing support as well, or we will continue seeing people leave.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 27, 2015
It seems @randileeharper, who asks for feedback then blocks people that make it, cannot take commentary that speaks about her massive, entitled, empowered abuse she pours out routinely onto PoC like Arthur Chu, Derek Smart and Mercedes Carrera.
Allan Brauer, a former leader in the CA Democratic party resigned after tweeting to Conservative commentator Amanda Carpenter that he wished her children would die long and unpleasant deaths.
I knew Randi had met with @safety because she had tweeted this information after Journalist @Karaswisher forwarded her medium article to @jack, and @jack responded to Randi.
Simply tweeting to a hashtag she doesn’t approve of leads to you being placed on a massive, propagating blocklist which can lead to your account suspension.
This also continues the same pattern that I have seen before, where threats and intimidation are not moderated by @twitter.
This was NOT a problem for @randileeharper until she determined it impacted HER personal safety.
However, how many other peoples safety is she affecting by potentially blocking credible threats from other people through her massively propagating blockbots?
Whelp. Twitter has started hiding death threats from my notifications in web. I can see replies. Not the threats. That's a serious problem.
@Jack literally allows these few people, to habitually attack and label as a hate group the massive amount of gamers who only want to use Twitter for what it is for, and instead find themselves labeled as part of a hate group by these few people.
@Randileeharper is able to control free speech through the use of outright bullying, threats, intimidation and mass blocking of accounts, simply for tweeting to a hashtag.
Even as she believes her metadata analysis determines who is a member of a Hate Group, without reading the content?
Can anyone question that @jack has any actual commitment to @safety, #privacy and truth? Freedom of Speech? No. Not when @randileeharper can function as a tyrant.
.@BadhbhCatha hey, just so u know, i'm taking your free speech by distributing a blocklist of u & ur friends. i look forward to the lawsuit.
If you find yourself unfairly suspended by @twitter after being targeted by @randileeharper, the San Francisco DA’s office offers consumers mediation through their Consumes Protection Unit.
Haters like these stick together folks, and it’s who you know at @twitter, not any commitment to safety, privacy or free speech that determines who gets suspended or simply left to be abused by enabled cyberbullies.
Nance Larson, former Team Leader of Empire Avenue (now Empire Kred Staff) and other leaders of EmpireKred have been attempting to keep this massive record of abuse of their own customers “off the record” since 5/2014.
They have magnificently failed.
However, according to @twitter @support talk of getting rid of people does not violate their @safety @policy.
It’s clear to me that Twitter’s problems are their own creation.
An institutionalized culture of not listening to valid feedback, arrogance and lack of business ethics and common sense.
When I started blogging about the abuse at Empire Avenue, what I quickly noticed was the relative impunity with which leaders from Empire Avenue threatened and doxed me on Twitter.
Empire Avenue Team Leader Nance Larson and Leaders Chris Sandys, Gareth Davies were able to target me for doxing and massive harassment for blogging about abusive practices on Empire Avenue.
After a couple months of emails to support inquiring as to why with no real response I filed complaints with the San Francisco District Attorney’s office Consumers Protection Unit and The California Department of Justice (x-ref 615640).
During that time other much higher profile accounts such as @Femfreq and an Electronic arts gaming executive also talked about the massive abuse they were sustaining, death threats etc.
I was not alone in the abuse piled on me.
Twitter simply allowed customers to threaten other customers to the point that the mass market was made aware that Twitter didn’t care about their customers.
Former Empire Avenue (now EmpireKred) Brand Manager Administrator Kevin Green, currently a leader at Empire Kred has this to say in the Empire Kred Leaders forum
Gareth Davies has an extensive history of doxing customers of Empire Avenue (now EmpireKred) and issuing violent threats, with warnings and suspension on Twitter.
Keith Gill was moderated by instagram for cyberbullying and had his twitter account locked for abuse.
Chris Sandys was warned by Twitter for non violent threats.
Nance Larson, a former team leader, and currently staff at EmpireKred participated in the doxing of customers and acknowledged a “goon squad” that was attacking customers.
I am and never have been a member of the so called goon squad. What afraid to ask Chris Voss for the real members?
Imagine being a customer of an online gaming company that rather than deal with cyberbullying and abuse of their own customers, wanted that abuse “off the record.”
That’s how Empire Avenue operated.
And in fact still operates despite Kred purchasing Empire Avenue and renaming the gaming company Empire Kred.
And people like Keith Gill, aka Digitalkeith, also in leadership at EmpireKred continue to try to keep the reporting of the cyberbullying “off the record.”
Keith Gill, AKA @DigitalKeith had his account locked by Twitter for abuse on twitter.
Gareth Davies, AKA @me_gareth was suspended by twitter for violent threats and doxing.
Chris Sandys, AKA @usafa_93 was warned for non violent threats.
All of the suspensions were related to their ongoing attempts to keep abuse at Empire Avenue “off the record.”
It’s sad, but these people are deeply, deeply committed to both abusing their own customers, and trying to keep that abuse off the record.
Their ability to continue with the open abuse on Twitter, has led to a CA DoJ inquiry into Twitter’s handling of the matter (CA DOJ x-ref 615640) and the SF DA’s office twice opening files.
When times get tough, some companies return to basic tried and true fundamentals.
Some companies try for moonshots, according to The Motley Fool.
However the Motley Fool also notes “uninspiring fundamentals” as key to Twitter’s continuing slide in the marketplace.
I don’t think this will have a major impact on Twitter stock; investors are more concerned with the company’s uninspiring fundamentals. But any change that might help to boost user confidence, not to mention the service’s reputation, is welcome.
Worse yet, Twitter moderation allows the abuse, while censoring the truth about these abusive brands.
Instead of a “moonshot” Twitter should return to good old Midwestern customer service values, moderate fairly and to ethical standards, and not protect abusive brands like #digitalkeith from the truth about their own abuse.
Far from feeling safe, Twitter feels like a safe haven for cyberbullies to many of their customers.
And all the advertisers in the world can just try to sell to each other on Twitter, while people enjoy Instagram and the safe environment they provide.
Otherwise Twitter’s users will simply continue to be bullied right off of Twitter.
Can Twitter moderation determine what honest satire, commentary and news is when it’s presented on one account?
I think not.
However after the CA DoJ inquiry into Twitter and the SF DA’s office twice opening files in the consumers protection unit I can only assume this behavior on Twitter’s part is intentional.
The abuse has been ongoing since 5/2014 with Keith Gill joining in in August 2014 when I discovered him running false advertising through Empire Avenue’s “missions” system.
However, one advocate said the real test will be how Twitter enforces the rules.
“The new rules are definitely an improvement,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Digital Terrorism and Hate Project at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “But the question is: Will they be accompanied by a more proactive attitude toward making sure repeat offenders are identified and permanently removed?”
A Twitter spokesman declined comment Tuesday.
In a blog post, the company said: “The updated language emphasizes that Twitter will not tolerate behaviour intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user’s voice. As always, we embrace and encourage diverse opinions and beliefs — but we will continue to take action on accounts that cross the line into abuse.”
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