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Should Amazon Web services remove Twitter?
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<blockquote data-quote="tall73" data-source="post: 75673106" data-attributes="member: 125574"><p>Twitter's lack of response on death threats was called out years ago by Amnesty international in October 2018 asking why they still were not handling them correctly.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/10/why-is-twitter-still-not-acting-on-reports-of-death-threats/" target="_blank">Why is Twitter still not acting when it receives reports of death threats?</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>A more strict policy was adopted part way through 2020, but not every Tweet is acted upon.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/02/twitter-trump-death-threats-covid-19-policy" target="_blank">Tweets wishing for Trump's death violate Twitter policy, company says</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #006633">“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.</span></p><p><span style="color: #006633"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006633">The announcement came as a surprise to many <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/twitter" target="_blank">Twitter</a> 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”. </span></p><p><span style="color: #006633"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006633">“The decision to suddenly enforce this policy underscores that centralizing content moderation decisions with Big Tech monopolies will always protect the powerful and silence the marginalized,” she said. </span></p><p><span style="color: #006633"></span></p><p><span style="color: #006633">A spokesperson from the company <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zynw/twitter-says-you-cannot-tweet-that-you-hope-trump-dies-from-covid" target="_blank">told Motherboard</a> it is suspending some users but will not act on every tweet.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tall73, post: 75673106, member: 125574"] Twitter's lack of response on death threats was called out years ago by Amnesty international in October 2018 asking why they still were not handling them correctly. [URL='https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/10/why-is-twitter-still-not-acting-on-reports-of-death-threats/']Why is Twitter still not acting when it receives reports of death threats?[/URL] A more strict policy was adopted part way through 2020, but not every Tweet is acted upon. [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/02/twitter-trump-death-threats-covid-19-policy']Tweets wishing for Trump's death violate Twitter policy, company says[/URL] [COLOR=#006633]“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. The announcement came as a surprise to many [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/technology/twitter']Twitter[/URL] 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”. “The decision to suddenly enforce this policy underscores that centralizing content moderation decisions with Big Tech monopolies will always protect the powerful and silence the marginalized,” she said. A spokesperson from the company [URL='https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zynw/twitter-says-you-cannot-tweet-that-you-hope-trump-dies-from-covid']told Motherboard[/URL] it is suspending some users but will not act on every tweet.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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