Posted on 03/22/2018 2:22:06 AM PDT by blueplum
...As the world becomes increasingly connected online, our reliance on social media platforms such as Twitter has also become increasingly important. But the online world, and social media platforms like Twitter are not immune to many of the human rights abuses that women face offline.
Over the last 16 months, Amnesty International has conducted qualitative and quantitative research about women’s experiences on social media platforms including the scale, nature and impact of violence and abuse directed towards women on Twitter, with a particular focus on the United Kingdom (UK) and the [USA]. {snip}
[AI] consulted with multiple organizations and individuals, particularly in the UK, when developing our recommendations and solutions for Twitter. The research highlights the particular experiences of violence and abuse on Twitter against women of colour, women from ethnic or religious minorities, lesbian, bisexual or transgender women - as well as non-binary individuals – and women with disabilities, to expose the intersectional nature of abuse on the platform. {snip}
Under the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Twitter, as a company, has a specific responsibility to respect all human rights – including the rights to non-discrimination... {snip}
[AI] contacted Twitter in January 2018 requesting that the company share information and data on how it responds to reports of violence and abuse... including disaggregated information on the number of reports of abuse it receives, the number of reports found in violation of the Twitter rules and response times to reports of abuse. Greater transparency around the number of content moderators it employs and details on how they are trained on gender and other identity-based forms of abuse and international human rights standards was also requested. Twitter stated in a letter dated 14 February 2018 that releasing such data would be uninformative and potentially misleading.
(Excerpt) Read more at amnesty.org ...
Under the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Twitter, as a company, has a specific responsibility to respect all human rights – including the rights to non-discrimination...
F THE UN! plain and simple, nothing but a house of pedophiles, goat herders, tin pot dictators and enemies of America
Divide men and women. Divide black and white.
Totally against what I know of God, but they are doing it.
Apparently, I have been misusing the word violence my entire life...
But not white women. No one ever abuses white women...
I'm all for punishing twitter, it'll force more conservatives to switch to gab.
I believe what they’re trying to say is that perverts send women weiner pictures.
I noticed that too. And realized the AI thing is targeted, with help from the UK.
>>Apparently, I have been misusing the word violence my entire life...
Not at all. It is the Progressives who have been misusing it for the last 20 years.
I was once called a “wh_re” by a black Obama supporter on Twitter for daring to (mildly) criticize the Anointed One.
But I guess that’s not what they were talking about.
A ruse for oppression of free speech.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
‘I was once called a “wh_re” by a black Obama supporter on Twitter’
name calling is rampant on social media; I just blocked a guy on FB, an old classmate, who just could not keep a civil tongue in his head...
Hit twitter with some regulations and fines, is ok with me. Forcing American companies to cowtow to the UN, (under the guise of AI) is a problem with me. We have our own regulatory processes, we don’t need the UN running American businesses.
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