When I announced Tuesday that I would leave Twitter to the anti-Semites, racists and misogynist “Bernie Bros” who had been threatening female reporters covering Hillary Clinton, something clicked in Twitter headquarters. Almost immediately, I began receiving emailed notices informing me that many of the accounts I had flagged had been suspended. I could not determine what criteria Twitter was using, why @thebadgoy, @annudahshoah and @grandpalampshade were determined to be abusive, yet @CapoReturns, @wolfe_fan (A.K.A. Terminus Est) and @goyimist were just fine.
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Mr. Goyimist recently bragged, “The best thing about a new #twitter account is getting re-blocked by all the faggots who blocked your old account. *rubs hands together*”
Social Media and being a part of a conversation is about trust, privacy and safety. If you don’t feel any of those things, you go to another network. The fact that I have over 30 Twitter accounts isn’t right and if it is, I should be able to validate why those exist and if my IP address and cookie (which I know Twitter injects in my computer via the browser) is being used by multiple accounts flagged for harassment, all of them should be banned. These tools aren’t difficult to write.
Twitter is to my experience, the best social network I’ve ever used but it also was the worst when measured by the amount of anonymous trolls and hecklers compared to other networks.