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Twitter Abuse Toward Women Is Rampant, Amnesty Report Says

9 pointsby ehudlaover 6 years ago

4 comments

tareqakover 6 years ago
Link to the findings themselves: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decoders.amnesty.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;troll-patrol&#x2F;findings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decoders.amnesty.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;troll-patrol&#x2F;findings</a>
Carpetsmokerover 6 years ago
&gt; The study looked at 778 women journalists and politicians in the US and UK, and found that 7.1 percent of tweets sent to them last year were abusive or problematic.<p>What is the baseline for &quot;abusive or problematic&quot; tweets? What&#x27;s the amount of abuse a man can expect? Looking at their methodology, I don&#x27;t think this was taken in to account (it looked just at a cross-section of female Twitter users).
SamReidHughesover 6 years ago
Males receive more Twitter &quot;abuse&quot; than females: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demos.co.uk&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;demos-male-celebrities-receive-more-abuse-on-twitter-than-women-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demos.co.uk&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;demos-male-celebrities-rec...</a>
tabtabover 6 years ago
So the online world mirrors the actual world: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jDoVckC6NhA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jDoVckC6NhA</a><p>In short, men are animals and e-animals.