Twitter violates women's human rights, Amnesty says
 

Twitter has been accused of creating an unsafe environment for women online and violating their human rights.

A new report by Amnesty International, #ToxicTwitter: Violence and Abuse Against Women Online, details what the organisation regards as the social media giant's failure to address misogynistic abuse, threats of violence and trolling.

Its publication coincides with the site's 12th birthday and is intended to highlight Twitter's inconsistent approach to tackling the abuse of women.

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Amnesty surveyed 1,100 British women and found that 78 per cent said they did not feel safe expressing an opinion for fear of vitriolic reprisals.

Just 9 per cent of respondents said they believed the site was doing enough to police abusive behaviour.
"For far too long Twitter has been a space where women can too easily be confronted with death or rape threats, and where their genders, ethnicities and sexual orientations are under attack," said Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK.

"The trolls are currently winning, because despite repeated promises, Twitter is failing to do enough to stop them. Twitter must take concrete steps to address and prevent violence and abuse against women on its platform, otherwise its claim to be on women’s side is meaningless."
While the site has played a vital role in promoting the cause of #MeToo and #TimesUp since the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal broke last autumn, those movements have provoked an angry backlash in some quarters.
Twitter has said it disagrees with Amnesty's conclusions and pointed to its recent efforts to address a number of problems the site faces - culling political propaganda bots, removing "deepfake" pornographic videos and suspending accounts that disseminate hate speech to make the site a less hostile arena for comment and interaction.

CEO Jack Dorsey issued a series of posts on 1 March stressing the platform's commitment to reforming its act, acknowledging that offence caused on Twitter has “real-world negative consequences”.

account created in 2006 to post this? I welcome old people posting here but brah, your post is more trash than twitter.

Is this supposed to be in Fight Club?

correction:

"The trolls are always winning"

Mmmm looks like their censorship is backfiring.
Surprise surprise.

Oh yeah, Twitter. Made an account in high school and never used it again.

I thought Twitter is only good to see what famous people have to say?

Twitter is one of the best news sources. You have to curate it yourself. If you're only following celebrities and other junks, then you will get junks. In that case, Twitter isn't trash, your ability to curate content is trash.

It's toxic if you choose to remain engaged with toxic individuals. Welcome to life. Making it about women is silly. It's not a gender issue.

That information isn't out there by default. In no way shape or form is anyone required to provide any of that information to use Twitter. Would it be preferable if that information could be shared without it having an impact on someone? Absolutely. But in the real world it only takes a couple idiots to make revealing that information a negative thing.

It's about as "off topic" as you can get, so i'm inclined to leave it here for now. But the thread title has been edited to remove the all caps.

I can't live without News 1130 Traffic and AM 730 Traffic Twitter feeds. I always check them before I get in my car.