I've reported many people's tweets. Mainly people posting far-right memes and also yelling at people for being Jews. Their accounts go away after a couple of days.
This might not be as effective for less blatant rule breaking
I got reported for calling Marin residents who didn't want to pay a $75 tax to support affordable housing because it might mean poor people in Marin "greedy cunts" and my account was suspended. Meanwhile they get to launch all sorts of insults and personal attacks at proponents of more housing and not get banned.
Filtering tweets based on bad language sounds like an easy user-based-configuration.
Do you think that Google's search results should contain pages with foul language or hardcore pornography? Or are you OK with Google's "safe search" functionality, which defaults to "safe"?
I don’t know about far left stuff but I’ve certainly seen a TON of complaints from women being harassed or targeted or out right under siege by hordes of users piling on them and complained that Twitter doesn’t do anything about it or even remove the reported tweets.
My experience was joining Twitter and then within a month or two scene the attacks that started gamer gate. Things don’t seem to have improved since then even though they keep saying they’ll fix some of this stuff.
I’ll believe it when I see it because so far they’ve never managed to do anything reasonable, at least in a sane timeframe.
Yes, I know two women who were explicitly doxed. Their cell phones started ringing incessantly. People posted and retweeted snapshots of their tweets. Oh -- one woman is transgender and she was "outed" as a "man."
That's nonsense, and I bet your comment will justifiably get down-voted to oblivion. On the other hand, I suspect many HN users will agree with your general sentiment.
My response is that the political spectrum is cyclical. Therefore, as you move far enough in one direction, you wrap around to the other side, like the edges of a PacMan board.
One example, in my opinion, is the idea that the "majority" or the "expert leaders" or "(pick your group)" are correct, and should be given absolute power. This then leads to horrible oppresssion, and destruction.
I've reported many people's tweets. Mainly people posting far-right memes and also yelling at people for being Jews. Their accounts go away after a couple of days.
This might not be as effective for less blatant rule breaking