Twitter shown to be a force for bad in the world for the umpteenth time. Can we get rid yet?
No one should have to go through that much verbal abuse. They are only human and that much hate would have a huge impact on anyone doesn’t matter what they do
Block, report, move on with your lives. It’s just words on a screen ffs, the tweets aren’t going to jump out of the screen and kill you or anything. There are worse problems to be focusing on than politicians complaining about mean words on the internet.
If I were a politician or anyone in the public eye I just wouldn’t have a Twitter, or if I *needed* one just pay someone to run it on my behalf
And research showed Diane Abbot the worse affected. So why have you got that other mugshot up?
The definition of ‘abuse’ seems to be very loose in this study. The top terms of abuse seem to be ‘disgrace’, ‘fool’, ‘liar’, ‘hypocrite’ or ‘Tory’, they don’t seem particularly ‘toxic’ or ‘abusive’. Of course, it’s not nice to be called a ‘fool’ or a ‘Tory’, but I’d say that’s pretty mild, especially when compared to some of the stuff on Twitter. This seems to conflate far more serious abuse and threats that MPs have received with some pretty harmless stuff. Ben Bradley is at the top of this study, he famously said that free school meals vouchers for children would be used for drugs and brothels. Surely that’s far more toxic than someone on twitter calling him a ‘fool’?
Just look at the person at the top of the list. He *is* a cunt. That’s not abuse, it’s an observation. They’re clearly lumping in mild insults with rare examples of harassment or credible threats to get you lot to scream for more regulation online.
Just get off Twitter… that’s what other victims of social media abuse and stalking are told dismissively to do.
Twitter has a ridiculously huge bot problem that makes it worse 1000x over, especially when it comes to politics.
Lots of hate speech on twitter is just these bot accounts. And no offence to politicians, they probably don’t know the difference.
I read a lot on twitter and analyse a lot of comments and accounts.
Lots of accounts like RMT or labour side of things get ridiculous comments from accounts, just spouting hate and lies, and when I look deeper into those accounts I see they all have around the same followers and all follow each other with the same sort of bio. For example one I found that one was pretending to be an old lady who loved scrabble, but looking through her uploaded media I could see stock memes and the like, which shows it’s clearly not some old lady. And when I see other comments from other users or posts bashing RMT/Labour/Nurses etc they are always near the top, and when I look into those its a user from the same groups of accounts of trolls I see everywhere, and because they all follow each other they have hundreds, if not thousands of likes which is why it’s near the top.
I do wonder who runs those accounts, do I believe it’s 100% nefarious? Absolutely. It’s just a new way a media form can try and sway people’s opinions. It’s a way of defecting blame onto someone else and making people think other common folk are the enemy. If you keep spouting the same lie over and over and “seem” to have lots of other likes then people will blindly follow.
I have tried to contact those users to get some more info but they just ignore mentions if you call them out and they all have DMs turned off
> MP Jess Phillips says the level of abuse has created an unsustainable culture where
> politicians are afraid to speak their mind on important issues.
Utter horseshit. They are paid to speak their minds (say what and vote how they are told to by their bribers) in parliament everyday, and they get national press coverage of their opinions – as the linked article proved.
If they get abuse, they should think hard about what they are doing to make people send it to them.
Twitter and clearly this comment section just highlights how horrible people have become
odd that the article goes for a “people are getting abused for having an opinion on the rights of trans people to get healthcare and discrimination protections” angle, when from what I can tell [the actual document suggests jamie wallis (a trans person) had the highest proportion of hostile abuse](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HKK_ordzVVuzBjVBSmPnPaSyHc-oqpC0aBgSkxYUrjE/edit)
> The MP Jamie Wallis came out as transgender in the middle of the data collection period:
tweets aimed at him (he still uses the male pronoun) were notably more hostile than the
proportions for male and female MPs.
On top of it conflating strongly worded disagreement with hostility (i.e use the word “fuck and it’s toxic, but it doesn’t recognize genuinely toxic content of tweets that is spoken politely), plenty would be justified to be annoyed at the stuff many politicians have said this year, including the subject of the article, Jess Phillips after she [spread bigoted conspiracy theories last year](https://transsafety.network/posts/shelter-murder-fake-news/), which doesn’t justify abuse but doesn’t mean she can’t be criticized for it and the abuse her posting that in turn caused.
edit: “homophobe” is rated as “toxic abuse” while “groomer” is rated as perfectly fine lol
Why the fuck does that infographic only show Tory MPs receiving abuse when we already know Diane Abbott receives by far the most abuse of any MP?
Ok, now do the scale of abuse politicians inflict on ordinary people in Westminster. People will get rankled when you do things like jeer and laugh as you vote for pay rises for yourself and pay freezes for everybody else.
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Twitter shown to be a force for bad in the world for the umpteenth time. Can we get rid yet?
No one should have to go through that much verbal abuse. They are only human and that much hate would have a huge impact on anyone doesn’t matter what they do
Block, report, move on with your lives. It’s just words on a screen ffs, the tweets aren’t going to jump out of the screen and kill you or anything. There are worse problems to be focusing on than politicians complaining about mean words on the internet.
If I were a politician or anyone in the public eye I just wouldn’t have a Twitter, or if I *needed* one just pay someone to run it on my behalf
And research showed Diane Abbot the worse affected. So why have you got that other mugshot up?
The definition of ‘abuse’ seems to be very loose in this study. The top terms of abuse seem to be ‘disgrace’, ‘fool’, ‘liar’, ‘hypocrite’ or ‘Tory’, they don’t seem particularly ‘toxic’ or ‘abusive’. Of course, it’s not nice to be called a ‘fool’ or a ‘Tory’, but I’d say that’s pretty mild, especially when compared to some of the stuff on Twitter. This seems to conflate far more serious abuse and threats that MPs have received with some pretty harmless stuff. Ben Bradley is at the top of this study, he famously said that free school meals vouchers for children would be used for drugs and brothels. Surely that’s far more toxic than someone on twitter calling him a ‘fool’?
Just look at the person at the top of the list. He *is* a cunt. That’s not abuse, it’s an observation. They’re clearly lumping in mild insults with rare examples of harassment or credible threats to get you lot to scream for more regulation online.
Just get off Twitter… that’s what other victims of social media abuse and stalking are told dismissively to do.
Twitter has a ridiculously huge bot problem that makes it worse 1000x over, especially when it comes to politics.
Lots of hate speech on twitter is just these bot accounts. And no offence to politicians, they probably don’t know the difference.
I read a lot on twitter and analyse a lot of comments and accounts.
Lots of accounts like RMT or labour side of things get ridiculous comments from accounts, just spouting hate and lies, and when I look deeper into those accounts I see they all have around the same followers and all follow each other with the same sort of bio. For example one I found that one was pretending to be an old lady who loved scrabble, but looking through her uploaded media I could see stock memes and the like, which shows it’s clearly not some old lady. And when I see other comments from other users or posts bashing RMT/Labour/Nurses etc they are always near the top, and when I look into those its a user from the same groups of accounts of trolls I see everywhere, and because they all follow each other they have hundreds, if not thousands of likes which is why it’s near the top.
I do wonder who runs those accounts, do I believe it’s 100% nefarious? Absolutely. It’s just a new way a media form can try and sway people’s opinions. It’s a way of defecting blame onto someone else and making people think other common folk are the enemy. If you keep spouting the same lie over and over and “seem” to have lots of other likes then people will blindly follow.
I have tried to contact those users to get some more info but they just ignore mentions if you call them out and they all have DMs turned off
> MP Jess Phillips says the level of abuse has created an unsustainable culture where
> politicians are afraid to speak their mind on important issues.
Utter horseshit. They are paid to speak their minds (say what and vote how they are told to by their bribers) in parliament everyday, and they get national press coverage of their opinions – as the linked article proved.
If they get abuse, they should think hard about what they are doing to make people send it to them.
Twitter and clearly this comment section just highlights how horrible people have become
odd that the article goes for a “people are getting abused for having an opinion on the rights of trans people to get healthcare and discrimination protections” angle, when from what I can tell [the actual document suggests jamie wallis (a trans person) had the highest proportion of hostile abuse](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HKK_ordzVVuzBjVBSmPnPaSyHc-oqpC0aBgSkxYUrjE/edit)
> The MP Jamie Wallis came out as transgender in the middle of the data collection period:
tweets aimed at him (he still uses the male pronoun) were notably more hostile than the
proportions for male and female MPs.
On top of it conflating strongly worded disagreement with hostility (i.e use the word “fuck and it’s toxic, but it doesn’t recognize genuinely toxic content of tweets that is spoken politely), plenty would be justified to be annoyed at the stuff many politicians have said this year, including the subject of the article, Jess Phillips after she [spread bigoted conspiracy theories last year](https://transsafety.network/posts/shelter-murder-fake-news/), which doesn’t justify abuse but doesn’t mean she can’t be criticized for it and the abuse her posting that in turn caused.
edit: “homophobe” is rated as “toxic abuse” while “groomer” is rated as perfectly fine lol
https://twitter.com/scattermoon/status/1590326639585468416
“This is a massive problem now that someone we don’t like has bought Twitter”
I was banned for a week for asking crap actor (see Spiral) Chris Rock he would stick to comedy and being fake slapped on stage. No abuse.
It should be more until they get their acts together
[Ben Bradley now complaining about receiving toxic messages](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/ben-bradley-selaine-saxby-free-school-meals-marcus-rashford-736757).
Why the fuck does that infographic only show Tory MPs receiving abuse when we already know Diane Abbott receives by far the most abuse of any MP?
Ok, now do the scale of abuse politicians inflict on ordinary people in Westminster. People will get rankled when you do things like jeer and laugh as you vote for pay rises for yourself and pay freezes for everybody else.