Posted on 12/12/2022 1:51:19 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
KEY POINTS
* Journalists are exposing Twitter's politically biased and capricious content-moderation protocols—but self-harm content continues unabated.
* Twitter stifled criticism of the platform for not enforcing its prohibition on self-harm—while ignoring self-harm posts.
* Nearly 25% of girls 12 to 16 are intentionally injuring themselves, mostly with knives and razor blades. They need help, not a platform.
While Twitter personnel are censoring ideas and deplatforming people it doesn’t like—and journalists are exposing Twitter's politically biased and capricious content-moderation policies—the platform is paying virtually no attention to the self-harm its younger users were posting and encouraging. Twitter was busy interfering with “Libs of TikTok” and was largely ignoring the increase in graphic images and videos of young people cutting themselves—sometimes so deeply their wounds require ER visits.
In October of 2021, 5Rights, a UK-based children’s digital rights charity, reported that Twitter and other platforms were “systematically endangering children online” by facilitating children’s ability to connect with others celebrating self-harm. Specifically, Twitter’s algorithmic recommendation system was steering accounts with child-aged avatars searching the words “self-harm” to Twitter users who were sharing photographs and videos of cutting themselves. The organization told Twitter about specific self-harm search-terms like #shtwt, #ouchietwt, and #sliceytweet.
While attention is rightly focused on Twitter’s political bias and related questionable content-moderation, let’s hope there is some attention paid to helping Twitter’s young users by enforcing prohibitions on posting and celebrating images of self-harm. Young people who intentionally harm themselves need help, not a platform.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...
What they need are parents, not turning to a forum seeking attention. Twitter is not a babysitter.
I’d bet that Pamela Paresky, Ph.D. supports girls cutting off their breasts and taking male hormones.
When will we connect the dots?
Article: “Nearly 25% of girls 12 to 16 are intentionally injuring themselves, mostly with knives and razor blades. They need help, not a platform.”
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Gender transition is self-harm and they need help not a platform nor encouragement nor acceptance.
It is a serious mental disorder to believe one is something they are not.
Reminds me of the coincidental influx of homelessness during Republican administrations.
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Let Twitter focus on clearing out the child molesters first.
Did you complain about it to the old Twitter as vociferously as you're complaining now?
/rhetorical question
Just as Musk closed the deal?
twitter sold oct 27 2021
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