Um, as noted, she posted private info, including a phone number, about someone. No problem with the suspension. It had nothing to do with her justified criticism of Weinstein and others.
Public outcry, what is that? When there was a public outcry over that goof dingaling from Tennessee, Marsha Blackheart’s tweeting about body parts, tweety relented and allowed the lies to continue.
Pretty certain 45 has broken Twitter rules in the past and yet…
Don’t be silly. Different rules for different people. Even different rules for different types of people, or different classes of people, or even different colors of people. It’s always been that way. The problem was not that they had different rules for Rose McGowan than for other tweeters. The problem was that they did a bad job hiding that fact. sad
I wasn’t being silly. Just making an observation.
Just to show you how out of it I am when it comes to all this sickening news about Weinstein and what’s happening in Hollywood with the revelations about his predatory behavior…I didn’t even know who Rose McGowan was, but I guess she’s famous too.
This has gone on for long enough! We must have legislation that prohibits non-disclosure agreements where sexual or domestic violence/assault underlie the settlement. Everyone—not just women—should be free to disclose information about potential threats to the safety and well-being of others.
We allow the doctor-patient privilege to be put aside when a patient presents an immediate danger to themselves or others. Indeed, the doctor is obliged to do so. Similarly, a lawyer has an obligation to disclose knowledge of a crime about to be committed by a client. Why should the victim of a crime be required to remain silent after being compensated for their injury? This simply makes rich people immune from the embarrassment of being exposed for the vile people they are.
We cannot allow victims to be bought off so predators can be free to continue their predation. Victims may get less compensation for their suffering, but the public at large needs to know that the Weinsteins, O’Reillys, Cosbys, and others like them are dangerous individuals.
Me, neither. I’d never heard of this Weinstein guy either.
oh the irony. Twitter ran more Russia ads promoting fake news than Facebook yet they are claimg she broke their rules!!!
Word! liked x infinity
Apparently some people still do not understand how pervasive this is - it’s not just in entertainment. It’s everywhere we work, certainly there was 100% coverage in every environment I ever worked in.
I am so grateful young women are standing up and refusing to be treated this way.
I’d have no problem with it if their TOS wasn’t violated all the time and harassment (especially targeted by hate groups) wasn’t constant and unaddressed.
They could’ve removed the tweet and issued a warning if they were to even come close to equally applying repercussions for TOS violations.
It looks reasonable if you don’t know twitter culture. And I’m not even getting into the malevolent toddler…
This. Thousands times this.
I thought the First Amendment said no one can force silence.
People like Weinstein and Trump and other other aggressors are not advocates for freedom and independence. They claim a power to buy silence. More broadly, a power to use government, the law, to force silence. When it can do that, government will take your guns.
You do realize that, conservatives. Don’t you?
The alt-right is not your friend. Trump is the alt-right.
No the first amendment prohibits the government from trying to regulate speech in any way.
Nobody forces silence in settlements - it is part of an agreement each side reaches of their own free will. They agree to the provision on not talking about the case in return for money,
This is an example of exactly why I place “social media” lower than I do the bubonic plague on my “bucket list.”
Because “social media” simply isn’t.
There is some good in it, admittedly so.
But the raw and dangerous truth about it is that what has become an artery of communication is still largely without due regulation, oversight, or as this incident proves, the occasional lick of common sense. There are too few fingers running the entire business for it to be the utopian “free platform” that many have been sold on. “Social media” is fast becoming what a “free people” ought to fear most. Too much capricious power melded with too much greed in too few shortsighted hands.
Want to make an impact with both Facebook and Twitter? Stop using them and let them know why.
Twitter is part of the social mediaverse, so of course it responds when social media disagrees with an action it takes.
Its TOS have all the strength of overcooked spaghetti.