Charlie Warzel of Buzzfeed has reported that Twitter is considering new rules on “dehumanization.”
a smart idea – but implementation is everything / Twitter Is Expanding Its Policy Against Hateful Conduct To Include “Dehumanizing Speech” https://t.co/9vPIeRr6Aa
Having found that twitter mobs quickly label anyone asking questions or not obeying the herd rules to ostracize them AND signal the mob on who to abuse I think that’s necessary.
One way scumbag political operators like Heather Greven dehumanize people is by LYING about people’s politics AND then refusing to review facts, contrary evidence and running off while you are falsely labeled.
My BLOG is FULL of posts that aren’t by the wildest stretch of any imagination “Conservative” but that is no matter to Jack and the aforementioned liar, Heather Greven.
I even posted my Political Compass results as a helpful guide to avoid such confusion.
YOU DON’T CLEAR A SWAMP BY REPLACING IT WITH LIARS LIKE HEATHER GREVEN.
I think being lied about by a campaign major for a major campaign is dehumanizing.
As a disabled Californian I find it unacceptable.
I’m not sure if Jack agrees, cares or will do anything.
After all journalists have had to write about DEATH THREATS they receive before Twitter will do anything at all.
Apparently Brainna Wu went digging through archives and found a 2 year old blog I’d taken out of publiction where I said she’s a “former GOP fundraiser” and is wrong for Progressives.
Brianna, a former GOP staff member for Trent Lott (R -MS) and intern for Michael Steele apparently worked for 5 years for the GOP according to her own tweets.
@glennf Did you know I spent a summer interning for Michael Steele, who I thought got a very unfair rap in the press.
Okay, that’s fair to base it off that Tweet. I was trying to sum up a summer where I attended a lot of fundraisers in the evening as part of my job and saw a lot of really weird shit. It was an imprecise statement on Twitter, back in 2014 when there was only 140 characters.
But, I’m telling you directly, I never worked as a fundraiser.
Brianna’s job duties included some activities linked to fundraising.
That’s certainly reasonable and expected in Washington D.C. where networking is a critical job function.
She was not a “Fundraiser” which some may take to mean “rain maker” or “bundler” or something illicit.
I apologize for any negative implications that may have been inferred by others based upon the title of the blog.
Ask not what @shervin can do for you! Ask what you can do for @Shervin.
Kind of a bit different than the immortal words of President Kennedy, but I found Billionaire Boys Club @Shervin isn’t exactly an open and outgoing fellow on twitter.
The 5th Estate is now born. Social media as a new power in world affairs.
“I allow some of my customers to be silenced, threatened, abused and run off @twitter.”
I’m not @Jack, but if @Jack were an honest man that is what he would tell the world.
You see, @Jack, just went on @TODAYshow with @Mlauer and lied to consumers.
As reported by USA Today,
“I can block people. I’ve never blocked anyone,” Dorsey said.
Picking from crowd-sourced questions on Twitter, Lauer had asked Dorsey about his company’s stance and activity on censorship, which led to a conversation on blocking.
“Does Twitter censor?” Lauer said.
“Absolutely not,” Dorsey said. “It’s our job to make sure they see the most important things.”
According to her own definition, she is a Digital Terrorist as she has a history of doxing consumers on twitter, thereby removing their digital privacy by exposing personal data online which is a crime in CA.
IMO, attempting to remove digital privacy from american citizens is an act of terrorism.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 1, 2016
Anytime you tweet hateful stuff at me, I'm just going to pull down alllll your account metadata. Take that, conspiracy fans.
And yet this is precisely what Randi Lee Harper does, silences healthy discourse through a combination of lies, intimidation, threats and overt McCarthyism.
This has left one of the most marginalized audiences on Twitter both afraid of her, and afraid to engage in discourse with those that seek to help them.
That would be the LGBT community.
How does she do so? By repeated false and misleading tweets about there being no Freedom of Speech in social media.
This is in direct contradiction of Federal, state and local CA law. CA is the state Twitter is headquartered in, and I personally am a resident of CA.
Randi Lee Harper has spent a lot of time both segregating her audience from the general twitter population and reinforcing that they have no rights beyond what Twitter ToS says.
"Freedom of speech" is a misnomer in this context. When you signed up, you agreed to their terms of service. https://t.co/sReTQImo2t
So after lying to a marginalized community for over a year (and Twitter allegedly prohibits false and misleading tweets) the LGBT community which are her followers are cowed, fearful and unable to take part in rational social media discourse.
Why do I belive that Randi may be a legitimate credible threat of violence to others?
When Randi Lee Harper’s claims of “harassment” were fact checked by WomenInMedia.org only the results were clear that Randi Lee Harper, and anyone labeling GamerGate an organized hate group (it’s a twitter hashtag) was lying about the extent of harassment.
Her transiition to SJW was quite sudden.
@TheOneTAR@zulahni @CBJPodcast @agtmadcat I'm fucking sick of SJW cunts without class. ❤ Please stop speaking for my gender.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 22, 2014
@TheOneTAR @CBJPodcast @agtmadcat SJW is the new religion. Use it to prop themselves up to be better than everyone else.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 22, 2014
I'm just waiting for someone to try to "dox" me, which I think means releasing my personal info onto the internet. Already public, GG.
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.
Randi has contacts inside @twitter @safety and is privileged to abuse whomever she wants.
She examines metadata, and besides using that to threaten @jack’s customers openly, can examine metadata and knows @jack and @twitter is hiding content.
Anytime you tweet hateful stuff at me, I'm just going to pull down alllll your account metadata. Take that, conspiracy fans.
I realize that is an odd claim, that Randi is privileged to abuse, but when you report Randi to @twitter @support they tell you they have reviewed the account.
Either they are not looking at the same account I am, OR Randi is, as she claimed, privileged.
btw, yes. I'm pissing off a lot of people, on purpose. I'm privileged enough to be safe from their BS. their usual targets? not so much.
Journalist Milo Yiannpoulis wrote about censorship on Febuary 16 and has been concerned about censorship on Twitter since writing about Randi Lee Harper.
The problem of course is that Randi Lee Harper holds that spam or harassment is subjective, and she can influence @twitter @safety directly through her contacts.
[english] ok so what is low quality content (spam or harassment) to me isn't always the same for you. It's all subjective.
How does Randi Lee Harper abuse Trans and marginalized community?
She tells them she is protecting them from others.
And then she filters what they see using a massively propagating block bot which she has previously used as retaliation against individuals as part of a personal vendetta.
And then a marginalized community has to beg Randi to be able to communicate on Twitter.
It’s pure abuse of @twitter and LGBTQ enabled by @jack.
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.
She then uses her coding ability so her mob of followers can block individuals, destroying their ability to communicate with their friends, followers and audience that only intended to use Twitter for it’s stated purpose.
This leaves consumers, who only wished to communicate with friends and engage in speech in the position of having to beg @randileeharper to unblock them.
Her blocking algorithm, which filters content she herself holds to be low quality, is technically against Twitter’s own Developer Agreement & Policy.
She blatantly filters content.
Randi Lee Harper, with no medical degree, believes she can diagnose the cause of PTSD, then acts to stop valid discussion because she is privileged and not stopped by @jack.
@Herracks @thain1982 @KittenCrit i'm not using the blocklist. but those activists are amplifying the hashtag and helping it trend.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 9, 2016
@KittenCrit @Herracks @thain1982 if twitter would just fix their shit, i wouldn't use a hammer when a more precise tool would work better.
— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 9, 2016
The difference between Google and GMail and Randi Lee Harper is that Google is the host of the content and they can set the rules as they wish, including which hashtags can appear and trend on Twitter.
This ostracization, blacklisting, is McCarthyist in nature and directly contradicts what Twitter is for when it is done with intent to silence legitimate critique, commentary and news.
In fact, Randi doesn’t read the content, she simply judges the metadata and if you tweet to something she doesn’t personally like, you are subject to being labeled a hater, or whatever term she chooses to abuse you with.
Randi Lee Harper is a self declared SJ advocate (Social Justice Warrior, on the left of the political spectrum) and runs an anti abuse charity, Online Abuse Prevention Initiative, which apparently is a registered charitable foundation.
I've been getting frustrated with SJ twitter lately. Everyone always assumes the worst of everyone else, and we need to do better.
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
However, the effect of that @policy leading to potential #cybersecurity and @safety concerns was unknown by Randi Lee Harper until she herself was affected.
It always is, and was a valid @safety concern, however Randi, allegedly a @policy expert, had no idea of this. I believe she has no Risk Management experience or knowledge.
Why she can impact @twitter @safety @policy is the great unknown question, to me.
So while white feminists like Randi Lee Harper crush diversity by silencing Women of Color at open to the public events like SXSW, where they have been invited to speak, journalists slavishly pound away, to attack the targets highlighted by Randi Lee Harper, who tweets falsehoods.
Perhaps Women of Color should worry about ALL white women named Randi Lee Harper, not just those that champion diversity as part of their Social Justice platform, until they need someone silenced?
Be very wary of diversity campaigns run by white women. If those running the initiative aren't diverse, what results do you expect?
Randi Lee Harper has no idea that the problem with privilege is in the way she uses it.
You see a privilege, also mentioned in the Constitution, is held by the people, but it cannot be exerted, it can only be given by others. And polite people need not accept, nor abuse their platform.
Randi Lee Harper remains one of the most openly abusive people I have encountered on the internet,
That she runs a charity dedicating to fighting online abuse, is amazing.
Randi was able to have Mercedes Carrera deplatformed at SXSW, a Tech festival in Texas apparently run by racists such as Hugh W Forrest and Kelli Jo Krause
@SXSW also asked Mercedes to delete tweets after she had flown to Austin from Los Angeles and landed.
Certainly this abusive behavior should not be readily accepted by a society concerned with open expression.
I'd already capitulated by taking down a video & @that time I offered not to attend. As I landed in Austin they demanded I delete tweets too
@twitter has immunity from lawsuits as a common carrier. They can leak her information that breaks their own customers privacy and be relatively (not absolutely) immune from lawsuit.
If you ever make a public push to repeal CDA 230, I'm going to dismiss anything you ever have to say regarding internet law just fyi.
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