Tuesday, November 21, 2017






Big Brother is watching you

Twitter has become Orwell's "Big brother"  -- monitoring you  even when you are OFFLINE.  The aim is reasonable enough but the method is obnoxious

Twitter has announced it will be monitoring its users’ behaviour “on and off” the social media platform, in a bid to tackle hate speech.

Anyone affiliated with extremist organisations will be suspended according to the new policy, which will come into force on 18 December.

The new rules state:  “You also may not affiliate with organisations that - whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform - use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes.”

Twitter users will also be banned from using “hateful images or symbols” in their profile images of headers.

“You also may not use your username, display name, or profile bio to engage in abusive behaviour, such as targeted harassment or expressing hate towards a person, group, or protected category,” the rules state.

“You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. We consider abusive behaviour an attempt to harass, intimidate, or silence someone else’s voice.

“You may not direct abuse at someone by sending unwanted sexual content, objectifying them in a sexually explicit manner, or otherwise engaging in sexual misconduct.”

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The real test of this policy will be seen in how they treat attacks on conservatives by celebrities. Many of their tweets in the past couple years certainly would have broken these rules.

Anonymous said...

I avoid Twitter and anything similar

Anonymous said...

Why is twitter still in business?

Bird of Paradise said...

Big Brother is everywhere just look at the cams their all right for stopping robbers and shoplifters but too much spying on us all the time is not good

Anonymous said...

So - if my tweets are all as sweet as pie, but offline I belong to a 'hate-group' (whatever the hell that means), they can ban me?
WTF?!? Talk about a gross abuse of power.