I stand for freedom, family values, patriotism, and safety!
And if that statement doesn't make you uneasy, where have you been for the last twenty years?
It would be just loverly if Twitter could make a simple set of rules that would prevent people from threatening or doxing each other on their service. But I don't think that's going to happen. Either nothing will change, or different standards are going to be applied to different tweeters depending on whether the onlooker approves of their apparent sentiments or not. This tweeter got you fired from a job you worked twenty years obtaining, but it's okay, because they were "punching up". This tweeter questioned whether you should get to shout people down because of your self-inflicted misery, and that's bad, because they're "punching down".
As I said elsewhere, I'm very tired of "safety" being used to indicate anything other than the absence of a direct and real threat to an individual's physical health. But that's where we are; it's joined the ranks of words like "family values" and "freedom" that used to imply simple virtues but now form a kind of doublespeak.
And if that statement doesn't make you uneasy, where have you been for the last twenty years?
It would be just loverly if Twitter could make a simple set of rules that would prevent people from threatening or doxing each other on their service. But I don't think that's going to happen. Either nothing will change, or different standards are going to be applied to different tweeters depending on whether the onlooker approves of their apparent sentiments or not. This tweeter got you fired from a job you worked twenty years obtaining, but it's okay, because they were "punching up". This tweeter questioned whether you should get to shout people down because of your self-inflicted misery, and that's bad, because they're "punching down".
As I said elsewhere, I'm very tired of "safety" being used to indicate anything other than the absence of a direct and real threat to an individual's physical health. But that's where we are; it's joined the ranks of words like "family values" and "freedom" that used to imply simple virtues but now form a kind of doublespeak.