Targeting / HarassmentFollow along with the LGB Alliance vs. Mermaids case via Tribunal Tweets

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I still find Twitter's UI to be a complete dumpster fire.

But

I did notice someone make a comment here which was really interesting.

MJ @MJamez Sep 9 Replying to @tribunaltweets Gender ideology will never win in court because it contradicts itself so much. Facts and reality will always prevail!

The last sentence is nonsense but there is an extremely interesting point here. Laws are neither inherently logical nor factual nor based in reality.

The legal system is purely a construction of society but the court system is based on the internal consistency of itself. Law x follows precedent to law y to law x etc... And then lawyers find ways to manipulate the interpretation of the wording etc ...

Gender ideology has absolutely no internal consistency so as soon as you bring it into a courtroom it does not coexist well with a legal framework for arguing a case. Basically a courtroom wants to hear A leads into B leads into C etc... But most gender ideology arguments are either tautological or just explicitly contradict each other.

[–]jjdub7TERF (Trans Exterminating Reactionary Fascist) 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I still find Twitter's UI to be a complete dumpster fire.

Tangential, but I was banned about a year ago (for my unapologetic trans-exterminating reactionary fascist beliefs) and have noticed that if you're ever not signed in, they have an "asshole design" that abruptly cuts off with a paywall-type login screen demanding you login.

I'm starting to think Elon Musk was right and they're using that to fudge with DAU/MAU (daily/monthly active users), even though a banned (ahem...'permanently suspended') account could hardly be considered active.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's been known forever that Twitter is filled with bots. At some point Twitter had to do a huge ban purge because advertisers somehow found a report about real numbers. A bunch of users then complained that they lost followers. There's also been times when political strategists openly brag about controlling huge bot networks. I can't remember exactly when but it could go back as far as 2008 there was someone on the Democrats' side advertising their ability to manipulate public opinion by using huge bot networks. Like they had some kind of software where each person could control 100s or 1000s of accounts at once to push messaging in certain directions. Basically you could type up a canned response and ask the software to randomly select 20 accounts to argue with people who had a damaging point.

Pretty sure I have observed this in action on the politics subreddit. Mostly with up and down votes to get things on the front page. Whenever a post emerged with a completely factual idea that went against the talking points of the week that post would suddenly get hit with exactly enough downvotes to bring the ratio to 0. Didn't matter if it had 20 and rising or 1000s of upvotes already. The post would suddenly in a matter of minutes dive down to single digits then stay there.

[–]jjdub7TERF (Trans Exterminating Reactionary Fascist) 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mostly with up and down votes to get things on the front page.

Oh, most definitely. Particularly salient given that among social media and forum sites, Reddit has one of the lowest barriers to account creation (hence the throwaway account phenomenon). It became very, very obvious especially when the nagging TRA or two would "brigade" r/AskGayBros - you'd see odd behaviors like exactly -60 downvotes on several critical replies within a short timespan (10-15 min) to create the impression of a plurality (on a gay mens' forum, positing Boxer Ceiling bullshite and the like). Textbook astroturfing.

The real question is - how much of an absolute fucking loser do you have to be to go through and manually (IIRC there's a captcha) create 60+ burner accounts just to amplify your shitty arguments?