Australia, what happened to Australia? It seems they are hating on Elon Musk nowadays. Well, that is, a former executive of Twitter is hating on Elon. Before Musk bought the big bird called Twitter, Julie Inman Grant was its director of public policy in Australia. But now she works as Australia’s eSafety commissioner. And she’s coming for Elon and his free speech.
Julie is still butthurt over the purchase of Twitter by Elon, it seems. However, she means business, and she demands answers. I guess Australia could fine Twitter $475,000 a day if Elon Musk doesn’t fess up with an answer. I do not understand this at all. How can a country fine a company over a policy (or lack thereof in their minds) and over something that can be interpreted 100 different ways? I think that’s the number of pronouns we are up to now.
My question is, who determines hate speech?
Twitter has been through the wringer over the last several years. Back in November 2021, Nina wrote about how Twitter’s new safety rule could endanger free speech.
“Twitter appears to be failing to confront a dark reality; that the platform is increasingly being used as a vehicle for disseminating online hate and abuse.” @tweetinjules on the legal notice issued to @Twitter today regarding online hate on the platform https://t.co/LBPxbVvL1k
— eSafety Commissioner (@eSafetyOffice) June 22, 2023
Oh cry me a river, will you? Julie knows she can mute people and unfollow people on Twitter, right? I’m sure there is an old adage somewhere that you can apply to this ridiculousness. Don’t like what’s playing on the radio? Turn the dial. Don’t like a particular television show? Don’t watch. Don’t like seeing mean Tweets? Get some thick skin, keep scrolling, delete the App, don’t use the App, unfollow, mute, and you can even report the offensive Tweet. I don’t care to see or watch liberals screeching their trans ideology all over TikTok or other forms of social media, so I don’t. See how this works?
The Rules
Dear Julie, have you read the hateful conduct overview on Twitter? It’s dated April 2023. I’ll share some snippets with you here:
Twitter’s mission is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information, and to express their opinions and beliefs without barriers. Free expression is a human right – we believe that everyone has a voice, and the right to use it. Our role is to serve the public conversation, which requires representation of a diverse range of perspectives.
We recognize that if people experience abuse on Twitter, it can jeopardize their ability to express themselves. Research has shown that some groups of people are disproportionately targeted with abuse online. For those who identify with multiple underrepresented groups, abuse may be more common, more severe in nature, and more harmful.
We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized. For this reason, we prohibit behavior that targets individuals or groups with abuse based on their perceived membership in a protected category.
The policy gives examples and even tells us what Twitter will do if someone violates this policy. I was a little surprised at the severity of the punishment. If you want to call it severe, it’s just Twitter.
But I suppose if you are using Twitter for your business, then it could be severe. And then, I can’t imagine a business using hateful content to promote themselves for customers and revenue.
The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy:
- Making content less visible on Twitter by:
- Removing the Tweet from search results, in-product recommendations, trends, notifications, and home timelines
- Restricting the Tweet’s discoverability to the author’s profile
- Downranking the Tweet in replies
- Restricting Likes, replies, Retweets, Quote Tweets, bookmarks, share, pin to profile, or engagement counts
- Excluding the Tweet from having ads adjacent to it
- Excluding Tweets and/or accounts in email or in-product recommendations.
- Requiring Tweet removal.
- For example, we may ask someone to remove the violating content and serve a period of time in read-only mode before they can Tweet again.
- Suspending accounts that violate our Hateful Profile policy.
You should be suspicious of Little Miss Julie and Australia, who obviously want to control the language, speech, agenda, policies, arena, and story to push their propaganda to the people. They want to censor the folks who disagree with big tech, prominent politicians, out-of-control large governments, World Economic Forum, George Soros and Son. I’ll also throw in stupid celebrities and mainstream state media. So there’s that.
I used to think Australia was a kick-ass country, but COVID happened, and they showed who they were. Maybe not the people of Australia, but their government sure did.
Elon, don’t pay the fines.
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