What is not allowed
Twitter claims to have a rule against wishing death on people. Cue hollow laughter.
Twitter has said that tweets wishing for Donald Trump’s death in the wake of the president’s diagnosis with Covid-19 violate its policies and could result in suspension.
But what about all those tweets wishing for JK Rowling’s death?
“Tweets that wish or hope for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against anyone are not allowed and will need to be removed,” the company said in a tweet. A spokesman told the Guardian this policy has been in place since April and applies to all users, not just Trump.
That last sentence is confused: they mean the rule applies to all targets, not just Trump. It’s a rule for all users, applied to all targets. Except of course that it isn’t.
The announcement came as a surprise to many Twitter users, especially people in marginalized communities who say they frequently experience abuse on the platform. Evan Greer said that as a trans woman and the primary spokesperson for the digital rights organization Fight For the Future, she receives death threats on a “weekly, sometimes daily basis”.
Thanks Guardian. Anything about actual women? Anything at all? (Spoiler: no.)
Many people on Twitter described the policy as hypocritical, and pointed out that some users regularly receive death threats with little response from Twitter.
Women, especially.
I’m curious about those death threats transgender people and TRAs claim to receive on a regular basis. I’m not doubting that they do, but I keep hearing that they’re “from TERFS.” It’s not the toxic male conservative bigots who spew the same bile at gays, feminists, environmentalists, and those they group as “liberal;” no, it’s gender critical feminists sending them death threats on Twitter.
Have they ever provided any evidence of this? We have collections of screen shots at paces like terfisaslur.com. Where are theirs?
‘anyone’=’any man’. It’s crystal clear who counts as a person.
Sastra, I had the impression that “TERFS” were causing the violence towards trans women, not committing it themselves. I’m not clear on how it works though. I think either women do in fact rule the world, and have an army of eager henchmen standing by to do harm to trans women; or there are men so misogynistic that when they hear a woman say TWANW they think “we’ll see about that, bitch!” and go out and murder a trans woman, just to spite the woman and prove that TWAW, because if they aren’t women why would anyone want to kill them. Or something.
Ugh. It just occurred to me that this is the reason they are so keen to claim the violence and sexual assault that happens to women – it’s what women are for, so if it happens to them, it proves that they are women.
Yes, plus it’s worse than what happens to women, and there’s more of it, and it’s more significant.